Flat White

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

Government is not the divine source of ‘truth’

26 July 2022 2:58 pm

‘Unless you hear it from us, it is not the truth,’ declared New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, in a…

Qantas: a disappointing answer to customer care

26 July 2022 1:00 pm

On 5 July, reacting a news report that Qantas intended to maintain its ban on unvaccinated people for all international…

Moira Deeming: a damning case of radical common sense

26 July 2022 10:00 am

If you want to understand how far left the Australian mainstream media has gone, consider this article in The Age…

Five is too young for radical gender theory

26 July 2022 7:00 am

The Sydney parent of a 5-year-old child attending Roseville Kids Care complaining about his child being indoctrinated with radical LGBTQ+…

Liberals: stop chasing the Left into the abyss

26 July 2022 4:00 am

There is an old saying that my supervising partner said to me when, in a previous life, I was employed…

How dare you assume the gender of ancient skeletons!

25 July 2022 4:21 pm

Anarchist archaeologists re-write history in the name of gender politics.

WorkSafe takes a second bite of the cherry

25 July 2022 1:42 pm

WorkSafe announced it filed charges against the body corporate of St. Basil’s Age Care, over alleged breaches to the Occupational…

Danistan: extending or exiling an era

25 July 2022 10:00 am

An era is about to continue or end in Victoria. I preference the latter. Victorians are a measured lot and…

Bill Shorten is right about mothers

25 July 2022 7:00 am

If Australian government records are to be believed, 55 men gave birth to babies in 2014-15. Those are the official…

Politicians destroy nuclear when the world needs it most

25 July 2022 4:00 am

Human advancement has rested on harnessing increasingly dense sources of energy from non-human origins. Animal power, burning wood, wind technology,…

Inequality resides at the heart of the sexual revolution

24 July 2022 7:00 am

The thesis of the sexual revolution was a fantasy. We need to return to reality.

WHO declares Monkeypox a public health emergency

24 July 2022 1:32 am

The last we heard of the official advice for Monkeypox was – uh – to avoid casual group sex with…

Non-birthing parent Adam Bandt angers mothers

23 July 2022 1:22 pm

Sperm-donor and non-birthing parent Adam Bandt – who problematically refers to himself as ‘dad of two’ in his social media…

Big Pharma: a petroleum-dependent industry under attack by climate warriors

23 July 2022 10:00 am

There is a war brewing between the socialist-lite mask-wearing kids who demand free healthcare and the socialist-lite mask-wearing kids gluing…

Hero or Villain? The plot to cancel Captain Cook

23 July 2022 8:00 am

Attempts are being made to cancel Samuel Griffith from his prominent role in Australian history, inevitably pushed by the university…

Novak Djokovic versus the Rule of Law

23 July 2022 4:00 am

Earlier this week, our magazine weekly columnist, Ramesh Thakur, made an impassioned defence of tennis champion and unvaccinated Serb, Novak…

Climate scientists have lost their minds

22 July 2022 2:09 pm

Forget about rescuing the medical profession. Australia has a generation of chief health officers and doctors who can’t bring themselves…

Burning biomass fuels climate stupidity

22 July 2022 10:00 am

Some of us have always known that climate hysteria causes malfunctions in the brain. (The precise medical term is ‘Subject…

Rugby Australia needs to chill out

22 July 2022 7:00 am

Rugby Australia has threatened to ban a football fan for yelling abuse at England coach Eddie Jones on Sunday night.…

Politicians are not evolving as fast as Covid

21 July 2022 1:00 pm

It has been more than two years since China unleashed Covid onto the world, and with no end in sight,…

Knock-knock: offensive by nature

21 July 2022 10:00 am

Recently, someone told me a knock-knock joke, and I deemed it offensive and insensitive. The subject matter was itself not…

Djokovic and the US Open: let him play

21 July 2022 7:00 am

Novak Djokovic has won Wimbledon, the second major tennis tournament this year to be plagued by self-inflicted wounds following the…

Jeremy Clarkson torments Twitter by enjoying summer

21 July 2022 6:00 am

I was up at a scary hour this morning when I stumbled across Jeremy Clarkson braising a few thousand Twitter…

Has Australia become an elective dictatorship?

21 July 2022 4:00 am

The responses of the Australian government to the Covid pandemic had an overwhelming impact on the enjoyment of our basic…

Russia didn’t get the memo about pronouns

20 July 2022 12:00 pm

Russian officials are openly mocking America’s embrace of transgenderism – taunting America to ‘keep going’. The ridicule came after a…