Flat White

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

Locking up the world’s most liveable city

31 October 2022 10:00 am

Victorian’s considering voting for a Labor government in next state election need to wake up and consider how the last…

The tribe has spoken

31 October 2022 6:00 am

Once upon a time, sport was an international language. A child kicking a soccer ball in Argentina could communicate in…

HSBC’s greenwashing and the myth of stakeholder capitalism

31 October 2022 4:00 am

Oh, the irony! Five months after infamously standing down its Head of Responsible Investment, Stuart Kirk, to appease a few…

Tribel war

30 October 2022 6:32 pm

When Elon Musk opened the birdcage, the Wokest twits flew straight into the waiting prison cell of hard-left-leaning social media…

Climate Change Police: the new CCP

30 October 2022 12:00 pm

The Climate Change Police. It sounds like a concept from the latest sci-fi, techno-thriller, or dystopian novel – doesn’t it?…

The cancer of Christianophobia

30 October 2022 10:00 am

Mulling over the recent Andrew Thorburn injustice, I reflected on a photo on my computer. Say ‘Hello’ to a boy…

Biology refuses to play along

30 October 2022 4:00 am

A company that sells tampons has been accused of lying in advertisements that insist ‘only women can have periods’. They…

Gale force hypocrisy: German Greens kill wind farm for coal mine

29 October 2022 7:07 pm

The world laughed last week when news spread that the Green-run government of Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia approved the removal of…

It’s what’s under the hood that matters

29 October 2022 3:14 pm

What does an out-of-control self-driving electric vehicle have in common with the self-identification movement? Both are headed for disaster...

The Olympics and World Cup Soccer – can we afford it?

29 October 2022 1:50 pm

As the Tokyo Olympics wound down, enthusiasm for the Olympic Games persisted, but there is a downside to the acceptance…

Northern Territory is set to abolish religious freedom

29 October 2022 12:02 pm

Proposed amendments to Northern Territory 1992 anti-discrimination legislation is set to abolish religious freedom, as well as erode freedom of speech. The…

Victoria’s infrastructure con job

29 October 2022 8:29 am

Some things in life are just too good to be true: often we spot them, but sometimes we don’t. If…

Cultural safety and confusion training

29 October 2022 5:00 am

‘What is a white person? And what is this “whiteness” you speak of?’ Since the full-day Cultural Safety and Respect…

Twitter birds navigate Musk’s wind turbine blades

28 October 2022 12:14 pm

Elon Musk walked into Twitter headquarters this week carrying a sink. Presumably, that’s where he’s going to store the tears…

The Lady’s for turning … and Britain is burning

28 October 2022 11:00 am

One knows better than to compare today’s politicians to great figures of the past. But in the case of Liz…

Which employers still have vaccine mandates?

28 October 2022 8:00 am

Australian citizens interact with businesses every day, but whether those businesses have policies requiring their staff to have proof of…

NY Supreme Court: unvaccinated and vindicated

28 October 2022 6:00 am

Ever since vaccine mandates reared their ugly heads in 2021, countless unvaccinated individuals have lost their jobs for remaining steadfast…

Environmental extremists: iconoclasts without a cause

28 October 2022 4:00 am

It is self-evident that even among those of us who are not religious, there is an instinct towards the numinous…

The centre-right should get on their bikes

27 October 2022 2:37 pm

The bicycle is the machine that best represents conservative and libertarian worldviews, and we cannot let our bikes be co-opted…

NZ passes anti-free speech language compliance law

27 October 2022 11:00 am

New Zealand Labour, supported by the Greens, and Māori Party, have passed ‘plain language’ legislation, which will require all branches of…

Cheap renewables, rising power bills?

27 October 2022 8:00 am

I cannot work out which is more incredible – the claims this government makes, or the fact that this government…

Net Zero: keeping Australia in the dark

27 October 2022 6:00 am

It is claimed that Abraham Lincoln once said, ‘You can fool all the people some of the time and some…

The political asymmetry of Covid

27 October 2022 4:00 am

A couple of days ago, Greg Sheridan had a piece in The Australian in which he argued: ‘Covid has been diabolical…

Hackers! Hackers! Hackers!

26 October 2022 12:00 pm

The Medibank hack (and others) is a warning about Digital Identity and the future of privacy

Where are electric cars going?

26 October 2022 12:00 pm

Countries are keen to out-virtue-signal each other with electric cars and their contribution to reducing Climate Change; what is plainly…