Flat White

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

Pride and shame

3 September 2022 8:00 am

I first read Pride and Prejudice in a feminist theory course. I wanted to be cynical about it and notice…

Australia’s miracle of multiculturalism…?

3 September 2022 4:00 am

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says Labor’s victory in the last federal election in May is a victory for multiculturalism.…

To hell with the transport union

2 September 2022 3:38 pm

The Sydney Rail, Tram, and Bus Union has rejected the NSW government’s offer and is planning to continue striking. I am…

From Canada, with madness

2 September 2022 1:14 pm

The Covid safety regime highlighted how intensely ‘Mother States’ dislike independent men

Dreaming of a Constitution without colour

2 September 2022 10:00 am

It is the objective of every writer to avoid cliché, yet I have found there is a category of great…

Dangerous energy politics

2 September 2022 8:00 am

Electricity has properties that require supply and demand to always balance every few seconds. This means, firstly, that there has…

Tony Burke’s gig ‘cancer’

2 September 2022 6:00 am

In recently calling gig work a ‘cancer’, Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke has made it pretty clear what’s in store…

Giving racism an Aussie voice

2 September 2022 4:00 am

Our beloved country under Labor’s proposed ‘Voice’ will become one gigantic apartheid state. Australia will boast apartheid and racial segregation…

Turnbull shouted out of university

1 September 2022 7:40 pm

Former Liberal Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was forced to leave a lecture at Sydney University Law Society after he was…

Crushing Truth Social in its crib

1 September 2022 2:00 pm

As I write this article, the following lead paragraph is circulating on the only conservative online media platform in America: The…

Why are businesses arguing for higher wages?

1 September 2022 11:43 am

One of the more bizarre aspects in the lead-up to the Jobs and Skills Summit is the spectacle of business…

Dispelling myths about water

1 September 2022 10:00 am

The myths about water are many. They range from Australia being the driest continent on earth, to all of our…

Labor’s job growth via mass migration

1 September 2022 8:00 am

Jobs and Skills Summit another missed opportunity for introspection

Gorbachev bows out as the curtain falls

1 September 2022 4:00 am

What a time to die – and I say that with melancholy. We live in an era when so many…

My Son Hunter: a film to terrify the White House

31 August 2022 3:47 pm

There are finally enough actors disaffected by the painfully Woke entertainment theocracy to produce a socially dangerous, ego-damaging, and down-right…

A serious case of buyer’s remorse

31 August 2022 11:00 am

Buyer’s Remorse is commonly associated with purchasing something and then experiencing disappointment or unexpected consequences from the initial agreement. Things…

Menzies 2.0 – a party waiting to be reborn

31 August 2022 8:00 am

Political parties do not last forever – they must be re-created, born, and fought for

Shaq down

31 August 2022 7:00 am

Apparently, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese believes that all ‘black people’ are the same. Albanese recently engaged in a publicity stunt…

The rise of lonely, single everyone

31 August 2022 4:00 am

A recent article has fired up the mainstream misandry* machine. Titled, The Rise of Lonely Single Men, its thesis is that…

The dictionary of Woke

30 August 2022 2:42 pm

While expressions like ‘political correctness’ and ‘being woke’ are recent, their origins can be traced to a number of intellectuals…

Affirmation

30 August 2022 12:00 pm

The rise of the gender affirmation industry and its relationship with children is one of the most important stories of…

Australia’s pandemic fascism

30 August 2022 10:00 am

This story might equally be called Covid’s Original Sin. Or, perhaps, Australia – Barnaby’s Part in Its Downfall (with apologies to Spike Milligan).…

The theory behind conspiracy

30 August 2022 8:00 am

There is a lot of talk about fake news and conspiracy theories which, in the past, we would have called…

The plague of the green elephants

30 August 2022 4:00 am

Legend says that if you displeased the King of Siam, he would give you a white elephant. These rare and…

Tony Abbott: Andrews government worst in history

29 August 2022 3:40 pm

Former Liberal Prime Minister Tony Abbott has stepped back into the spotlight ahead of next month’s CPAC conference to call…