Flat White

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

Renewables: the pandemic of wishful thinking

4 April 2022 12:00 pm

There is a transition underway in our electricity sector. Fundamentally, the people financing, regulating, designing, and operating these systems, are…

Should Morrison propose compulsory military service to win the election?

4 April 2022 9:00 am

Long-serving Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, has identified national security as the channel in which Scott Morrison should swim to secure…

From the ground in Ukraine: aid and terror

4 April 2022 4:00 am

It is a strange thing to travel toward a war zone. As one drives in the direction of Ukraine, all…

Trust us! We’re from the ABC…

3 April 2022 12:00 pm

ABC management and their high-paid editorial gurus would like taxpayers to believe the national broadcaster is the ‘most trusted’ source…

Edward VIII and the reserve powers

3 April 2022 4:00 am

When Sir John Kerr dismissed the Whitlam government, only welded-on Labor Party supporters and a handful of Marxist university students…

An alternative South Australian perspective

2 April 2022 2:00 pm

The Flat White article, A South Australian perspective, will win plenty of admirers in Sydney and Melbourne. It is the people…

Cashed-up and morally broke

2 April 2022 12:00 pm

The Prime Minister, Leader of the Opposition, and in particular – the Treasurer – have a problem; Australians have stopped…

Could the ‘Cook Islands Option’ save our Pacific family?

2 April 2022 9:00 am

In light of the possibility of a Chinese military base soon being installed in the Solomon Islands, it may be…

Same garbage – different flies

2 April 2022 4:00 am

The Australian Budget was a profound disappointment. Not one useless law was repealed, not one tax was abolished, and not…

Ukraine must win to deter future conflict

1 April 2022 2:00 pm

There are signs Putin may be prepared to limit his ambitions and settle for a portion of East Ukraine. President…

Last minute legal manoeuvres: WA delay trial of Falconer case

1 April 2022 12:00 pm

At an urgent hearing late on March 28, the evening before Senior Constable Ben Falconer’s challenge to the WA Police…

Frydenberg’s Budget is a spendathon, but is it any good?

1 April 2022 9:00 am

The government’s much-anticipated 2022-23 Budget contains the usual set of massive spending programs characteristic of an election year. Many of…

What is a woman? James asks ‘every politician in the Western world’

1 April 2022 4:00 am

At the exact moment totalitarian regimes in Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran are threatening global peace and stability, the…

Wokeism: the next big religion

31 March 2022 2:00 pm

One of the more intriguing aspects of neo-Marxist inspired wokeness, notwithstanding its avowed secular nature and hostility to Christianity, is…

Can the ABC be accused of racism?

31 March 2022 12:00 pm

I think it’s a legitimate question. With monotonous regularity, we get fact-free, ideological rants masquerading as news on their various…

There is still no rape crisis on campus

31 March 2022 9:00 am

Five years ago, the Australian Human Rights Commission conducted a million-dollar survey to try to find evidence of a rape…

Those damned dams

31 March 2022 4:00 am

While it was very pleasing to this old water conservation enthusiast to hear PM Morrison announce a 5.4 billion funding…

Kate and Will’s fabulous Caribbean journey?

30 March 2022 12:00 pm

Well, Kate and Will’s ‘Horrible Caribbean Journey’ is at an end and I now have a chest full of newspaper…

Authoritarianism gets women hot…

30 March 2022 9:00 am

To understand why the rise of authoritarianism in once-liberal Western democracies is greeted – not by resistance, but rapturous applause…

Can men have babies? Albo says ‘no’, Labor says ‘yes’

30 March 2022 4:00 am

Anthony Albanese has incensed LGBTQ+ activists by saying men can’t have babies, but the public don’t believe him when he says he’s not Woke.…

Frydenberg is wrong, Australia is in economic decline

29 March 2022 2:00 pm

The economy is not bounding ahead as declared by the Treasurer, it is stagnant – probably even in decline. There…

Is WorkSafe doing its job?

29 March 2022 12:00 pm

The effort to prosecute the Victorian government – including the Premier and his ministers, over the 2020 Hotel Quarantine disaster…

Trust ‘the science’ – or else

29 March 2022 7:30 am

Science used to be seen as something revolutionary – a catalyst for incredible change with the potential to bring about…

Challenge to WA mandatory vaccine directions heads to trial

29 March 2022 4:00 am

On Tuesday, Senior Constable Ben Falconer’s challenge to the WA Police Mandatory vaccine directions heads to trial. The last month,…

The ‘Green’ shades of political hypocrisy

28 March 2022 2:00 pm

It was only last month that the Leader of the Victorian Greens, Samantha Ratnam, called on the government to ensure…