Flat White

In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.

More than poor taste: Albo is living on the cliffs

16 October 2024 10:34 pm

‘Read the room…’ is what an exhausted Labor supporter wrote on X, having cringed at the Prime Minister’s defence of…

Trump stumbles over transgender comment

16 October 2024 9:47 pm

‘Cat amongst the pigeons’ is the idiom that comes to mind this afternoon following Donald Trump’s comments regarding transgender surgery…

The deconstruction of Australia’s society

16 October 2024 8:36 pm

In the late 1980s, the communist world collapsed, and the Cold War international system became history. It is in this…

The Babylon Bee sues California for silencing satire

16 October 2024 11:14 am

California’s Democrats are being sued for shutting down satire. At the centre of the 72-page lawsuit is the right to…

Green Hydrogen limps toward inevitable demise

15 October 2024 11:06 pm

Fortescue Metals Group, a leading Australian iron ore miner, has been actively pursuing green hydrogen as a key component of…

Australia and its King

15 October 2024 7:56 pm

If we believe the mass media, the monarchy is no longer a divinely ordained institution, but only another part of…

Antisemitism is an ongoing plague at the UN

15 October 2024 5:30 pm

The rise of anti-Semitism in Australia has continued in recent months, aided and abetted by the Greens. The Labor government,…

SpaceX launch blocked by Californian bureaucrats

15 October 2024 12:46 pm

The Californian Coastal Commission have voted down a request from SpaceX to increase space flights. Launch limits per year were…

Golf – the final patriarchal frontier

15 October 2024 11:13 am

Anika Wells, Australia’s Sports Minister, has come out swinging her heaviest club, opening a new front on the war against…

Are Australia’s childish premiers jealous of the King’s popularity?

15 October 2024 1:58 am

Support for a republic is at an all-time low. So low, indeed, that Anthony Albanese has quietly abolished the Assistant…

Conservatives are fighting back in the ACT

15 October 2024 12:48 am

Following the ‘unjust excommunication’ of Elizabeth Kikkert from the Liberal Party of Australia, Family First has gained a new face…

No means no: one year on from the Voice to Parliament

14 October 2024 8:29 pm

One year ago, Australia told the Canberra Bubble ‘no’. No, we will not accept racial division. No, we will not…

Obama’s campaign: something old, something new

14 October 2024 3:37 pm

Did you see Barack Obama lamenting to a group of black Americans that Kamala Harris is not enjoying the enthusiastic…

The eSafety Commissioner concedes – for now

14 October 2024 1:35 pm

Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has conceded their position regarding orders sent to X to block footage of the attack on Bishop…

The Christian vote swings against Labor

14 October 2024 12:24 pm

When planning for the next federal election, due by September 2025 with some pundits suggesting as early as March, Prime…

Navigating disastrous DEI

14 October 2024 11:40 am

So impressed with the Samoans’ numerous canoes and their great skills in handling them, French Admiral Louis de Bougainville named…

Australian politics is no longer fit for human consumption

13 October 2024 11:57 pm

Dysfunctional, insulting, thuddingly tedious – rarely have our national politics been as bland, stage-managed, or inconsequential as they are today.…

Vic Libs: four years of power in 25 since Kennett lost

13 October 2024 11:04 pm

Recent polls show that the Liberals are more popular in Victoria (or less unpopular) than Labor for the first time…

Did Queensland Labor nick the Greens’ school lunches policy?

13 October 2024 4:03 pm

The Greens are demanding credit for Queensland Labor’s last minute ‘promise’ to spend $1.4 billion providing ‘free’ lunches to primary…

Hate crime investigation opened into shooting at Jewish school in Toronto

13 October 2024 3:07 pm

Poilievre: ‘I will ban the terrorists!’

What happened to conviction politics for Queensland’s pro-life candidates?

13 October 2024 1:11 pm

In 2019, before she was pre-selected to represent the Liberal National Party in the seat of Rockhampton, Donna Kirkland posted…

100 days of chaos

13 October 2024 11:19 am

Just before the election, Rishi Sunak warned that Labour would cause irreversible damage to the UK within their first 100…

Keir Starmer: Labour’s Cordyceps Fungus

12 October 2024 11:24 pm

In the once vibrant landscape of British politics, the Labour Party stood as a defiant force of opposition – loud,…

Solar farms ‘good’ for desert environments?

12 October 2024 8:41 pm

Solar farms are good for desert environments… That is what we are being asked to believe in a new study…

Thousands of insects sacrificed by trans activists

12 October 2024 4:20 pm

This is a bizarre story. Apparently – allegedly – or perhaps we should say, ‘as far as the internet is…