Flat White

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

Brazil: the installation of a brutal socialist dictatorship

21 January 2023 4:00 am

Under Article 1 of the Brazilian Constitution, ‘all power belongs to the people, who exercise such power by means of…

The Great Reset – have we been spared?

20 January 2023 8:00 am

‘The pandemic represents a rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, re-imagine and reset our world’, thus spoke Professor…

Carole Baskin’s husband: dead or alive?!

20 January 2023 7:00 am

Fans of the breakout Netflix documentary Tiger King have always agreed that Carole Baskin’s first husband is definitely dead. More accurately,…

Jim Molan: remembering the early years

20 January 2023 6:00 am

Each of us is allotted at birth three score years and ten to make our mark on the world. Some…

The minister for net zero and dystopian hellscapes

20 January 2023 4:00 am

‘Australians, you shall decarbonise. Electricity bills shall go up, energy security shall go down, and damage to the environment shall…

Jacinda Ardern resigns: the beginning of the end for Labour?

19 January 2023 1:30 pm

‘I don’t have enough in the tank,’ complained 42-year-old Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand. ‘For me, it’s time,’…

Robert Kennedy Jnr launches landmark antitrust lawsuit

19 January 2023 7:00 am

Anthony Fauci critic, Robert F. Kennedy Jnr, has launched a landmark lawsuit challenging mainstream media for its alleged blanket censorship of Covid content. The…

UK blocks Scotland’s controversial self-ID Bill. Will Queensland follow?

19 January 2023 5:00 am

Something incredible happened this week. In a historic move, the UK government has blocked Scotland’s controversial self-ID Bill (the Gender Recognition…

Albanese: ‘shadow politics’ and the WHO’s Pandemic Treaty

19 January 2023 4:00 am

The old adage, ‘what you don’t know can’t hurt you’ does not apply to politics. What political leaders do in…

How to become a climate pariah in 10 easy steps

18 January 2023 12:00 pm

My father, I feel, was defamed at the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate…

From prince to toad

18 January 2023 8:00 am

A few years ago, Prince Harry was one of the most popular British Royals. As a boy, he lost his…

Buy our milk or the Earth will perish!

18 January 2023 6:00 am

Western Europe has a problem. France has it worst. Germanic countries are fighting a rearguard action and only Denmark is…

MSM: gone with the wind

18 January 2023 4:00 am

We are living through arguably one of the greatest divides the Western world has ever experienced and on the night…

Vale, great soldier

17 January 2023 2:22 pm

Along with the rest of Australia, I awoke this morning to hear the news of Senator Major-General Jim Molan’s passing…

Tony Abbott: Jim Molan, Australia’s fearless patriot

17 January 2023 11:58 am

Tony Abbott: statement on Jim Molan Jim Molan will be remembered as a fearless patriot who served our country with…

Peter Dutton: Vale Jim Molan

17 January 2023 10:14 am

Statement on the passing of Senator Jim Molan It is with great sadness that we received the news of the…

Mothers like mine

17 January 2023 10:01 am

We said goodbye to my mother last week. We committed her body and then celebrated her life. As I thought…

Another fatal flaw in ‘the Voice’

17 January 2023 8:00 am

There are many problems with the proposed Indigenous ‘Voice to Parliament’. They include rewriting the Constitution to create two classes…

WEF Watch: the world is ending

17 January 2023 6:00 am

The private jets have landed in Davos for the 2023 Bond villain meeting – sorry – I mean the closed-door…

To the end, Cardinal Pell urged conservatives to ‘use their votes’

17 January 2023 5:00 am

In his last television interview, Cardinal George Pell was asked why he was targeted and jailed for child sex abuse before…

Net Zero: a herbivore in a world of carnivores

17 January 2023 12:00 am

In nature, carnivores dominate herbivores – and so it is with big power politics. A Net Zero world means the…

Skyscrapers in the sea: are they killing our whales?

16 January 2023 8:00 am

Offshore wind turbines have a growing list of serious problems undermining their future sustainability, but few things look worse for…

Anything but Christianity! (Or mum and dad)

16 January 2023 7:00 am

News that ‘Christmas and Easter will not be celebrated in some childcare centres under new inclusion guidelines’ is, quite extraordinary.…

Queensland trade unions – a monopoly?

16 January 2023 6:00 am

In Australian politics, the Labor Party has typically cast itself as the defenders of the rights of working people. Yet…

Collapse of the $35 billion Sun Cable

16 January 2023 4:00 am

Last week saw the collapse of Sun Cable, a pie-in-the-sky $35 billion plan by alternative energy enthusiasts, Andrew Forrest and…