Flat White

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

Suburbia or endless population growth – pick a side

25 November 2023 11:25 am

Twenty years ago, and for all my sins, I found myself at university studying urban planning and learning to lament…

Has Geert Wilders burst the dyke?

25 November 2023 6:49 am

The victory of Geert Wilders and his Party for Freedom (PVV) in the Dutch general election last week is stunning…

The broken water politics of the Murray Darling Basin

25 November 2023 6:37 am

Twenty-five years ago, initiating a pattern that is now commonplace, a group of radical environmentalists calling themselves scientists launched a…

The politics of good vs evil

24 November 2023 2:13 am

What’s better than an unaccountable cabal of elitists deciding the fate of Western Civilisation by influencing policy and culture across…

What in the world is going on at OpenAI?

24 November 2023 1:10 am

After a tumultuous series of events, OpenAI fired its CEO Sam Altman, hired a new one, and then rehired Altman…

Alan Jones: 100 years of radio

23 November 2023 12:11 pm

Interesting that Australia today is celebrating 100 years of radio. The celebration, to some extent, flies in the face of…

Make masculinity great again

23 November 2023 4:30 am

There’s a reason Labor wants Woke-left soy boys

Why are young people pro-Palestine?

23 November 2023 3:06 am

One of the most alarming developments of recent months is the realisation that not only is antisemitism on the rise,…

Dr Fauci: welcome to the sunny side of Freedom Street

23 November 2023 1:35 am

Writing for Flat White on August 13, 2021 arguing against the idea of vaccination certificates, I noted that vaccines don’t stop…

Excess mortality and Covid vaccination: is there a correlation?

23 November 2023 1:21 am

Since the introduction of Covid vaccines, the official narrative in Australia (and other parts of the world) is that these…

From the ski lodge to the sea: our kids will never be free

22 November 2023 11:50 am

As to why so many students wagged school last week protesting about the supposed man-made climate catastrophe and why so…

Superglue not needed

22 November 2023 5:30 am

‘It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t…

Pesutto’s road to nowhere

22 November 2023 5:00 am

Who would have thought the Liberal Party would become the main bearer of cancel culture’s toxic torch? It is the…

Making hay while Xi shines?

22 November 2023 4:30 am

Riding on a roll of improved relations with China, which are more to do with President Xi’s concern about the…

Undoing our culture

22 November 2023 4:00 am

Tolerance and merit. These abstract concepts have been two of the great legacies of Western culture. They drive freedom, competition,…

All roads lead to Microsoft: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and Albanese’s Digital ID

22 November 2023 1:42 am

The world of AI experienced a frantic meltdown and sudden rebirth after the surprise sacking of OpenAI co-founder and CEO…

Revelation of ignorance

21 November 2023 5:00 am

During a call-in show with the late Christopher Hitchens, many years ago, a lady asked a simple but discerning question.…

World-leader: Australia allows its people to shape the nation

21 November 2023 4:00 am

Even critics of the defeated Indigenous Voice to Parliament are split on the question of whether the referendum should have…

Raising healthy and resilient children in a Fragile Age

21 November 2023 12:48 am

The inaugural ARC conference – by Jordan Peterson and John Anderson – is proving to be the conservative answer to…

Disney take note: Blue Eye Samurai

21 November 2023 12:31 am

‘Before you embark on a journey of revenge,’ Confucius said, ‘Dig two graves.’ Well, he didn’t live in the age…

Moira Deeming’s fight to clear her name continues

20 November 2023 11:00 pm

Moira Deeming’s announcement that she intends to engage in legal action and lodge a defamation case against John Pesutto, Leader…

Gaslight the Jews!

20 November 2023 1:17 pm

How many ways do you gaslight me? Let me count the ways: When you chant, ‘From the river to the…

Another epidemic of irrationality

20 November 2023 10:00 am

I must stop smacking my forehead in disbelief. With that undertaking in mind, I referred back to an article of…

Is Albanese’s outburst the beginning of the end?

20 November 2023 4:30 am

Contrast Anthony Albanese’s response to Peter Dutton, with that of Richard Marles’ the next day. The first was emotional righteous…

Thank you, Sir Paul McCartney

20 November 2023 4:00 am

We were all delighted to see our old friend Bill. After 27 years of globetrotting, this happy soul joined a…