Flat White

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

The Red planet

19 May 2021 6:06 pm

The last thing Mars needs is Communism.  When the Zhurong rover landed on Mars in May 2021, it created a state…

So does Clementine Ford also endorse the Mad Mullahs’ views on women?

19 May 2021 3:43 pm

Clementine Ford is certainly an expert on conflict — picking or provoking fights, anyway — but we didn’t know this…

Jews pretending to support Israel

19 May 2021 1:41 pm

Israel is at war. I have many friends and relatives in Israel of all ages and they rush to assure me that…

Our cricket whingers are talking balls

19 May 2021 11:33 am

The indefinite shutting of Australia’s international borders is bad policy, no matter how electorally appealing it is for our national…

Will we get mugged by the return of inflation?

19 May 2021 4:00 am

The recent lift in the United States annual inflation rate to 4.2 per cent, the highest in ten years, has…

What’s woke this week?

18 May 2021 6:30 pm

The overarching theme of this week’s woke stories is diversity and inclusion from the tiniest insect to multi-billion dollar corporations. White privilege and bus-stop seating are joined by…

On ‘chestfeeding’

18 May 2021 4:06 pm

Following the controversy over the “gender-inclusive” move of the Australian Breastfeeding Association to include natal males in their purview, I…

What Men’s Sheds and the Gay Games have in common

18 May 2021 1:34 pm

Recently, I was one of four female panellists at a Menzies Research Centre event in Melbourne.  Our discussion point was…

‘We’ll get you there, though some people may die’

18 May 2021 11:38 am

Like-a-Virgin Airlines has launched a new advertising campaign to encourage people to travel overseas despite the Covid-19 pandemic. The “We’ll…

Australian political journalism is crap

18 May 2021 4:00 am

‘The Coalition has abandoned debt and deficit in a monumental shift to its political narrative.’ That’s the refrain we’ve basically…

The woke comes preassembled at IKEA

17 May 2021 7:23 pm

For those of us who are still sane, we fully expect the lunar left to doggedly push ever more insanity…

Stop the shaming of boys in schools

17 May 2021 5:04 pm

Another week, another shaming of boys in schools. Last Monday a teacher at Como Secondary College in Perth stormed into a change room…

Auntie’s fudge

17 May 2021 3:26 pm

I saw this on Twitter. It led me to a Guardian piece: ABC demands rightwing thinktank correct ‘misleading’ claims on public…

WA Labor’s cynical power grab

17 May 2021 12:15 pm

I grew up in a small town in regional Western harvesAustralia. When I was a kid, we had a doctor in…

Thanks, Joe Biden

17 May 2021 4:00 am

Is there no end to the litany of cock-ups that can be laid at the feet of the 46th President of the United States of…

How accurate are PCR tests?

16 May 2021 5:17 pm

With the revelation that passengers were barred from boarding the first repatriation flight to Australia from India on the basis of…

Spectator Australia TV: The budget horrow show

16 May 2021 11:59 am

Today on Counter Culture we’ll tell you everything you need to know about the horror show that is this week’s…

Towards a kinder, woker Queensland Police

14 May 2021 4:15 pm

Criminals have described a decision to scrap gender quotas designed to get more women into the Queensland Police Force as…

Throw another bundle of banknotes on the barbie

14 May 2021 1:30 pm

If I may plagiarise Anthony Albanese — who plagiarised Michael Douglas in The American President — “In Australia, we have…

Tough love: we are letting ourselves get really dumb. 

14 May 2021 11:30 am

A regular series of rules for life by Pete Shmigel, a former senior state and federal political advisor and CEO…

Why does the Left keep making the same mistake?

14 May 2021 4:00 am

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. It’s a cliché and it’s misattributed…

No, the government can’t sprinkle sherbet on everything

13 May 2021 5:02 pm

I love the federal budget. And I’m unapologetic about it.  But there is one part of budget week that annoys me…

Adam Bandt’s drink problem

13 May 2021 2:47 pm

Is this why is Adam Bandt in parliament? Because he failed as a sommelier? One might think so from his…

The Coalition has surrendered its key point of political differentiation - debt and deficit

13 May 2021 1:31 pm

There were a heap of euphoric headlines in response to the federal budget. And what’s not to like in a…

The World Health Organisation had one job…

13 May 2021 11:30 am

A review of the initial response to the Wuhan virus by an independent panel, co-chaired by former New Zealand prime…