Flat White

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

Bushfire inquiry No. 58, pre-empted

21 January 2020 1:09 pm

Politicians hide behind enquiries – their magic answer to all problems, especially bushfires. Announcing enquiries give the impression of decisive…

How good are Canberra hailstorms?

21 January 2020 10:36 am

Forget the weird weather. What about this week’s weird politics? Yesterday morning, the Prime Minister did an “I’m in charge”…

Economics: throw out the male, pale and stale and we’ll have utopia. Apparently…

21 January 2020 5:00 am

The latest stroke of identity politics disingenuity is directed at the study of economics. In a self-flagellating piece written for the…

Better sharpen up, Scotty. Albo’s in a fighting mood

20 January 2020 5:47 pm

In recent days Anthony Albanese has announced major shifts in the policy and ideological stances of the Labor Party, ditching…

Margaret Court, the Australian Open – and Tennis Australia’s closed, cowed minds

20 January 2020 2:33 pm

So much for our world that continually preaches tolerance, diversity and acceptance.  Whenever someone does not fit the Left’s current…

Yassmin’s back, pockets full of our cash for her exhibitionist victimhood

20 January 2020 11:30 am

While Aussies have been battling devastating bushfires, a certain someone has been kicking back in her designer gear, feet up,…

Renewables rent-seekers aren’t interested in bushfire prevention – or cheap efficient energy

20 January 2020 5:00 am

No amount of mouth-frothing by Piers Morgan or artful deception by the legions of renewable energy warriors published by the…

Megxit: meet the new Obamas

19 January 2020 4:09 pm

If only the Queen had been in charge of Brexit we may have avoided rolling heads, rolling eyes and years…

How good is climate science!

19 January 2020 12:49 pm

Steering the ship of state isn’t the easiest experience. Not only is it a matter of always tacking between Scylla and…

Impeachment? As Bill Clinton once said, Mr President, I feel your pain

19 January 2020 5:00 am

It’s excruciating. My eye rolls are so severe and unstoppable that my eyelids are sore. My forehead is red from…

PVO and the great republican two-step stumble

17 January 2020 3:32 pm

While Australia’s constitution was finally approved — ratified — by the Australian colonial people in 1900, the process of choosing…

Bushfires: we deserve more than a heads or tails debate

17 January 2020 2:00 pm

Reach for the nearest coin you have and place the coin flat on your palm. I don’t particularly care which…

Sports Rorts revisited: Bridget’s big boo-boo

17 January 2020 11:13 am

In 1996, I was interim chief of staff to new health minister, Michael Wooldridge. I occupied a small room next…

Doctor Woke

17 January 2020 12:01 am

Fiction has become a medium for writers and actors to treat their audience as morally inferior dolts in need of…

Sasha Zhoya, watch out. There’s karma on the athletics field, too

16 January 2020 8:05 pm

It is never too late for a New Year resolution and I hope Australia soon nails this one #Australiasmartenup!  Pulling…

Lessons for the left from a list of losses

16 January 2020 4:45 pm

First, it was Brexit in 2016. A few months later it was Trump. In May this year, Australia was stunned…

What’s woke this week? Meet the Duchess of Wuss-ex

16 January 2020 1:01 pm

‘Megxit’ has been the talk of the globe this week and much has been said about the dawn of a…

We don’t need a bushfire royal commission. We need clearly defined responsibilities

16 January 2020 5:00 am

Among the many extraordinary aspects of this season’s bushfire crisis is the blame directed towards the federal government – and…

Is that all you’ve got? One Newspoll doesn’t damn ScoMo

15 January 2020 3:15 pm

Since the final polling of last year, a great deal has occurred within the realm of federal politics. After the…

WTF? We prefer a hostile dictator to Donald Trump?

15 January 2020 12:34 pm

You’ve probably seen reports in the past 24 hours on the Pew Research Center findings on attitudes towards the United States around…

EXCLUSIVE: Inside the fatal decisions that fuelled the Victorian bushfires

15 January 2020 5:00 am

In the days before Christmas 2019, thousands of tourists flooded into the township of Mallacoota, close to the New South…

Don’t let the truth of these terrible weeks be forgotten or rewritten

14 January 2020 5:44 pm

The infernos of January 2020 will be remembered for destroying so much of south-eastern Australia. I weep for their victims.…

Vale Wilson Gavin

14 January 2020 3:19 pm

University of Queensland Liberal National Club president Wilson Gavin died yesterday, yet even in the immediate aftermath ‘tolerant progressives’ still…

Bushfire brilliance: let’s sue ourselves out of harm’s way

14 January 2020 12:31 pm

While most of us took a break over Christmas and New Year, the hysteria around climate change didn’t so much…

The lockouts might be gone, but so is Sydney’s nightlife

14 January 2020 11:08 am

In bars across Sydney, people are raising glasses to the repeal of lockout laws. Monday marked the end of the…