Flat White

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

Baracking for the ladies

18 December 2019 4:01 pm

Barack Obama at a private function in Singapore recently: Now women, I just want you to know; you are not perfect, but…

Unto us another child is born

18 December 2019 12:03 pm

“It’s quite humbug to say that this is not a ridiculing of the founder of the Christian religion and of…

Boris Johnson’s forgotten people?

17 December 2019 7:16 pm

With an ascendant, centre-right leader triumphing over an avowedly socialist opponent in an epoch-making general election, just as Robert Menzies…

Putin is cackling as the Democrats debauch democracy

17 December 2019 4:00 pm

The brutal, brazen and belligerent partisanship of the Democrats in their grubby attempt — soon to be failed attempt —…

Putting the Christ back into politics: a Christmas message for the PM

17 December 2019 12:00 pm

Dear Prime Minister I trust you will not take offence at my presuming to give you advice, particularly since your…

Here’s a news year resolution for the ABC and the leftie media: reject all violence

17 December 2019 5:00 am

Who decided some violence was more equal than others?   The streets of London have erupted as violent socialist protestors clash…

So, how did I do?

16 December 2019 9:09 pm

Few tasks are more daunting than writing an election forecast which won’t appear in print until after the result; so…

‘Feeling like we are doing something’

16 December 2019 7:40 pm

Overlooked in all the bushfire brouhaha of last week was a telling exchange between a Labor MP Joel Fitzgibbon (the…

Some feminists want to kill men, Pauline Hanson wants to honour them

16 December 2019 4:32 pm

“You deserve to be honoured”. These are the words of Senator Pauline Hanson to Australian men in an important speech…

Jezza or Greta: can you spot the difference?

16 December 2019 2:36 pm

Here’s Greta Thunberg telling porkies about not being able to get a seat on a train: And here’s Jeremy Corbyn…

Brexit’s done, now for our Clexit

16 December 2019 11:03 am

Thanks to Boris Johnson, Brexit will now occur. And thanks to Donald Trump, the United States will exit the destructive…

We don’t trust government? Good!

16 December 2019 5:00 am

The latest Australian Election Survey has found trust in government is at an all-time low, and our pollies and pundits…

Let’s hear it for the nation state

15 December 2019 4:00 pm

Congratulations to Boris Johnson. They’ve been comparing him to Churchill, and while it might be a little hyperbolic, this is…

Left-leaning leaders doom their parties

15 December 2019 12:00 pm

The evidence is in.  Jeremy Corbyn has done as Malcolm Turnbull almost did and Bill Shorten definitely did and Anthony Albanese is now doing:…

A Christmas comedy special: the dunderhead democracy deniers

15 December 2019 5:00 am

It’s panto season in London and the greatest show in town is undoubtedly the British general election result and the…

Boris Johnson’s dis-United Kingdom

14 December 2019 10:30 am

With both the mainstream and the social media full of jubilation or alternatively tears about the British general election results,…

‘Progressive’ education policy: a cure worse than the disease

13 December 2019 3:07 pm

Despite the now indisputable evidence that Australia’s education system has been led down a deleterious path, the proposed cure might…

What’s woke this week?

13 December 2019 5:00 am

Recent news suggests that science is fast overtaking the arts at the vanguard of wokeness. The erstwhile boffins of physics…

Who needs oil if surfers can summon shamanistic energy?

12 December 2019 5:03 pm

If environmentalism is the new pagan religion then protests are its ritualistic ceremonies. This was the theory I was hoping…

The only unprecedented thing about these fires is the hyperbole

12 December 2019 1:00 pm

Growing up in what was then the peri-urban fringe of Greater Sydney near the boundary of the Ku-ring-gai National Park,…

Only big government can save us from Roquefort cheese: the 2019 Nanny Award winners unveiled

12 December 2019 11:00 am

The Centre for Independent Studies’ highly uncoveted Nanny Awards (The Nannies) go to the year’s most absurd, ridiculous, and bizarre…

Socialism might seem sexy, but beware Bernie or a Corbyn catastrophe

12 December 2019 5:00 am

Wherever you look, socialism is sexy again. Today, in Britain, Jeremy Corbyn is seeking election as prime minister on a…

Cheaper power coming? Blink and you’ll miss it if our Paris goals remain

11 December 2019 5:48 pm

There is a panoply of agencies regulating energy at the Commonwealth level and not all of these seem to be…

A pox on anti-vaxxers after Samoa’s sorrow

11 December 2019 2:00 pm

The death of more than 60 Samoans from their country’s latest measles outbreak shows what can happen when anti-vaxxers triumph. …

ScoMo, spite, screeching and virtue signalling smoke signals

11 December 2019 11:00 am

There is one thing fouler than the air quality in Sydney right now — the abuse being hurled at our…