Flat White

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

Is Australia racist?

10 July 2021 12:41 pm

Yes, I am writing another article making the claim that Australia is not a racist country. While some might think I have an obsession with the topic, I…

The SpecOz: afflicting the comfortable, comforting the afflicted. Or something similar

9 July 2021 3:53 pm

I appear to have hurt the feelings of a very powerful union. About three weeks ago, I wrote a piece…

Now more than ever small business needs to be paid on time

9 July 2021 1:15 pm

My heart was gladdened recently by the spectacular collapse of Greensill Capital, once a darling of the financial and (some) political elites in Australia and Britain. I…

The invisible man

9 July 2021 11:30 am

Here’s a screenshot of the Flat White email inbox from earlier this morning. Might the PM’s minders have finally realised…

Why should we rely on mRNA vaccines?

9 July 2021 4:00 am

Last month the federal government announced that the AstraZeneca vaccine would be phased out, with it being available only ‘on…

How to cope with Covid? Let’s try to be more Swiss

8 July 2021 5:44 pm

Singapore and Switzerland seem to be the greatest realists in the world today.  They’re getting on with living – not…

Hydrogen hype and hurdles

8 July 2021 3:00 pm

Green Hydrogen is the latest “energy” fad from the global warming warriors. It is mainly hot air. Hydrogen will never…

Dominic Perrottet stakes his leadership claim

8 July 2021 12:00 pm

Cabinet solidarity stops him from saying so publicly, but owlish-looking New South Wales Treasurer, Dominic Perrottet, has set his stall…

Western civilisation. Now an optional extra

8 July 2021 4:00 am

Under the current proposed Humanities and Social Sciences national curriculum review produced by the Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority,…

Why should women tolerate the big swinging dicks of the transgender movement?

7 July 2021 7:07 pm

Another week, another viral video in the gender wars.  This week we have a Black American woman in a Californian spa, horrified at the sight…

Covidphobia: a fear for our age

7 July 2021 3:23 pm

If you were asked, “What is your phobia?”, how would you answer? Traditionally, people have spoken of a fear of…

Hell no, she can’t go

7 July 2021 12:00 pm

Annastacia Palaszczuk should absolutely be denied an exemption to leave Australia.   Queenslanders are just picking up the pieces after another foolish lockdown, families separated…

The Laura Tingle-Julia Banks ‘interview’ further undermines the ABC

7 July 2021 4:00 am

On Monday night I saw another nail in the coffin of quality journalism on the ABC. It was what could…

The problem with Covid sticks and carrots? Citizens aren’t horses

6 July 2021 5:03 pm

It is one thing to protest your innocence to a crime that you did not commit, but quite another to…

The Lord of the Woke

6 July 2021 3:00 pm

James Ronald Ruel Tolkien was an English academic with a particular interest in Anglo-Saxon languages and legends and philology. He…

Political cowardice has a price 

6 July 2021 1:02 pm

The cowardice of our political overlords has a price, and usually that price is not paid by these decision-makers but…

Julia, you should have gone to the police, not the ABC

6 July 2021 11:02 am

Another day, another anti-Morrison whinger decides to jump aboard the bandwagon to sit alongside miserable ghost Malcolm Turnbull and his…

Back to ‘Big Australia’? Not so fast

6 July 2021 4:00 am

If there were a hint of a silver lining in the Covid-19 pandemic and associated travel restrictions, it may be…

Truth on social media? Geoffrey Robertson is keen

5 July 2021 7:22 pm

Truth on social media? It’s a wonderful idea, one espoused by high profile human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson on Sky…

Banks’ blunder

5 July 2021 5:08 pm

One-term MP Julia Banks has written a book based on what she broadly terms the horrors of working in Parliament…

A Reader’s Digest manifesto for our new woke military?

5 July 2021 3:12 pm

ITEM: The Daily Telegraph, Sydney, Saturday, July 3 2021: The Australian Defence Force has turned to some of the world’s…

NAIDOC Woke

5 July 2021 2:13 pm

It’s NAIDOC Week. Aboriginal elites, corporate virtue-signallers and politicians, cheered on by the media but especially the ABC and SBS, will…

A friendly reminder: Anthony Albanese is completely bloody useless

5 July 2021 12:00 pm

After last Monday night’s AstraZeneca slip of the tongue announcement, Scott Morrison simply vanished for three days until National Cabinet…

REVEALED: National Cabinet’s plans for vaccine segregation

5 July 2021 4:00 am

Australia has become the laughing-stock of the world. While other nations open up, winding back restrictions, allowing their citizens to…

God is non-binary. Apparently…

4 July 2021 4:11 pm

You will be interested to know that the Reverend Canon Sarah Jones, the Church of England’s first ever ‘transwoman’ priest, has made…