Flat White

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

From Moscow to Tony Abbott, via Annika Smethurst’s underwear drawer

2 December 2019 1:03 pm

Edward Snowden’s dad and a mate of mine are on the same page: Ed Snowden is “the greatest American patriot…

True equality, ideology – and PC priorities

2 December 2019 5:00 am

Extremist ideology, in any form, can never sit harmoniously with true equality. By its very nature, extremist ideology places some…

Clem goes gooey over dead white male

1 December 2019 6:06 pm

Just when I think Clementine Ford couldn’t get any more hypocritical she has managed to outdo any previous effort. At…

Sacha, free speech trumps censorship in fighting lies, you clown

1 December 2019 12:49 pm

Late last month actor-comedian Sacha Baron Cohen made waves when he spoke at the Anti-Defamation League summit. In his speech…

How Pauline Hanson became Shanghai Sam in drag

30 November 2019 6:50 pm

The CFMMEU is to Australia’s industrial relations system what China is to the West: a bully with too much money…

Why ‘progressives’ are going nowhere

30 November 2019 9:00 am

As the Labor Party, following its unexpected loss in the recent federal election, is forced to question the progressive worldview…

If we can’t trust big government, how can we trust it with religious liberty?

30 November 2019 8:38 am

Ten days ago, Attorney-General Christian Porter confirmed at the National Press Club “religious hospitals and aged care providers will be…

Forget the Deep State, it’s the Shallow State that’s the big issue

29 November 2019 4:47 pm

As one of my friends is fond of saying, one man’s perversion is another man’s great night. The same can…

An American explains Thanksgiving: it’s a lesson in economics

29 November 2019 2:30 pm

As an American living in Australia, it can be hard going at times – especially now. No sumptuous turkey dinner…

The ABC’s in a PC pickle

29 November 2019 11:10 am

Political correctness is out of control.   You know it, I know it… and, it seems, even ABC diehards know it.  …

Let’s be better than the left dealing with different opinions

29 November 2019 5:00 am

The story goes that a student of philosophy was asked in an exam to prove a chair which had been…

What’s woke this week?

28 November 2019 2:33 pm

Animal rights and feminist film criticism have stirred up wokeworld this week and, as we predicted last week, the run-up…

Clive James isn’t dead. He’s just off learning something new

28 November 2019 7:22 am

There must be poets writing today who can’t remember a time when Clive James wasn’t dying. Indeed, his capitulation to…

Healthy, safe, quality lives matter more than an Indigenous ‘voice to parliament’

28 November 2019 5:00 am

Much has been written about the demand for an Indigenous voice. While such an idea is necessarily political, I wish…

I love a man, er, Green in uniform

27 November 2019 2:30 pm

It’s going to take a long, long time to ever forget Greens Party leader Richard Di Natale’s 2016 spread in…

Rebels with all the wrong causes

27 November 2019 11:33 am

No one has been glueing themselves to the streets the last few days, but it doesn’t mean that the X-men…

Please, won’t someone think of the gender-fluid sportspeople?

27 November 2019 5:00 am

Just when you thought the world couldn’t get any more ridiculous, hang onto your hats folks, saddle up across the…

Dear Dr Bandt, if countries don’t buy our coal it doesn’t mean they’ll become carbon free

26 November 2019 6:19 pm

In the absence of Australian consumers having any actual influence on historical global climate variations, Greens MP for Melbourne Adam…

Climate cranks turn up the heat

26 November 2019 2:40 pm

Climate hysteria is increasing in intensity at the rate that alarmists claim extreme weather events are increasing thanks to burning…

Care about China’s Uighurs? You must be a white racist cultural imperialist

26 November 2019 11:33 am

China is very touchy today about criticism of its inhumane rights regime, but who else managed to miss this truly…

Water crisis? What water crisis?

26 November 2019 5:00 am

Australia may be the “land of drought and flooding rains”, but that is no excuse to mismanage abundance and utilise…

Impeachment inflames Trump Derangement Syndrome

25 November 2019 7:02 pm

After the media’s coverage of the August El Paso mass shootings and as the impeachment process unfolds, it is becoming…

The left’s ‘tyranny of tolerance’ means we need religious freedom laws

25 November 2019 3:05 pm

As Attorney-General Christian Porter aims to bring his Religious Discrimination Bill before Parliament in the first week of December, critics…

First Tibet. Then Xinjiang. Next Hong Kong?

25 November 2019 12:02 pm

Recent reporting of a 400-page leak from within the Chinese Communist Party — dubbed The Xinjiang Papers — confirms previous accounts of the…

The other extinction rebellion: against the extinction of real learning in our schools

25 November 2019 5:00 am

The(ir) ABC appear shocked to find that conservatives in Australia are pushing back against leftism in the classroom. “One Nation…