Flat White

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

Our cultural divide will complicate lockdown exit strategy

1 May 2020 5:00 am

Exit from the COVID-19 emergency measures is getting closer.  Exit will be fractious.  Some of us will want the disease…

The coronavirus can’t stop the windpower blowhards, let alone economic reality

30 April 2020 7:20 pm

For Australian energy, 2020 started precariously.  The bushfires showed the vulnerability of the nation to its subsidy-induced reliance on renewable…

How dare we ignore our celebrities at a time like this?

30 April 2020 5:30 pm

In the latest example of how the cult of celebrity trivialises everything it touches, actress Hilarie Burton has announced that…

Hey, Beijing. Min yi shi wei tian

30 April 2020 2:51 pm

Did we really need to get into a diplomatic spat with China while battling the restrictions placed on us by…

Eden-Monaro? Don’t risk it, Jim. The Senate needs you

30 April 2020 11:42 am

A by-election is on in one of the nation’s most fascinating seats, Eden-Monaro, the electorate that surrounds the Australian Capital…

Why Lockdown Stage 3 was never needed

30 April 2020 10:54 am

Predictions of the development of Covid-19 in Australia have not held up to even short-term scrutiny. For example, the Health…

Cook 250 has been destroyed by the shame industry – and that’s something we should be ashamed of

30 April 2020 5:00 am

The 250th anniversary of the landing of James Cook on the rocky shore of Kurnell 250 years ago yesterday passed…

Shop local, help our media industries survive

29 April 2020 7:30 pm

The COVID-19 pandemic represents a generational turning point.  The global disruption the virus has caused to consumers, business and media…

Bleach? The MSM has been drunk on its Kool-Aid since Donald Trump became president

29 April 2020 6:11 pm

Repressive regimes don’t tell the truth, and, if they do, it’s because the truth works to their advantage. Truth, for…

An open letter to Dr Norman Swan

29 April 2020 3:30 pm

Dear Dr Swan Normally I merely read “Open Letters” from my supposed betters telling me why they are right and the…

Loosen corona restrictions or face a fearful future cost

29 April 2020 2:04 pm

If you want to know how much the coronavirus pandemic might cost, the International Monetary Fund’s recent world economic outlook…

Clementine Ford prepares to launch beauty line?

29 April 2020 12:07 pm

Lockdown has done funny things to many people. We’re seeing hidden talents emerge as a by-product of not being allowed…

Let’s rediscover James Cook and his extraordinary voyage

29 April 2020 5:00 am

Today marks 250 years since Captain James Cook and the crew of the HMS Endeavour made their first landing on Australian…

Learning from lockdown

28 April 2020 7:36 pm

Like all parents of school-aged children in my state, I recently received an email from the Education Department letting me…

Let’s get this straight: COVIDSafe is grossly flawed

28 April 2020 4:00 pm

The take-up of the government’s COVIDSafe app has been truly remarkable, with over two million downloads in the first two…

China has been playing us for mugs

28 April 2020 1:35 pm

Number two in Craig Kelly’s series 20 reasons why the Wuhan Flu is the final nail in the climate alarmists’…

Coronavirus: advice for the perplexed and bewildered

28 April 2020 11:46 am

Are you bewitched, bothered and bewildered about how to deal with the coronavirus? Be not dismayed; you are not alone.…

Rebuild muscle, not flab

28 April 2020 5:00 am

In order to kill corona-wasps in the ceiling, politicians have knocked our economic house down. Now they dream of rebuilding…

The PVO merry-go-round

27 April 2020 6:01 pm

If you were to open up Peter Van Onselsen’s brain and have a look around, you would find scrambled egg. …

The Planet of the Humans: Moore vs Gore and the renewables recidivists

27 April 2020 4:00 pm

Michael Moore’s The Planet of the Humans is currently one of the top trending videos on YouTube. Just in time…

Are the Trump outrage merchants drunk on their own hand sanitiser?

27 April 2020 3:49 pm

Have we all really become that stupid? Has it really come to this?  Have we all lost the ability to…

Even the left don’t want Turnbull

27 April 2020 5:00 am

Poor Malcolm Turnbull.   The Liberals don’t want him; he may even be expelled from the party for being such…

Everyone thinks they’re a great writer when corona cabin fever strikes

26 April 2020 3:43 pm

Pandemic Poetry   On isolation How the hell do you spell pendemic anyway? Maybe I should use a thesaurus, no that…

Yassmin’s Gallipoli offensive – thwarted

25 April 2020 3:44 pm

Narcissist nutjob and professional victim Yassmin Abdel-Magied — presumably currently suffering in Paris’ oh so trendy Marais district on the…

Mark Latham takes on the ‘anti-discrimination’ industry

25 April 2020 1:47 pm

I don’t know when it happened precisely, but Mark Latham has become one of the champions of religious freedom in…