Flat White

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

Francis of Rome

6 October 2023 5:00 am

Dear God, Forgive your earthly mouthpiece, Francis of Rome, for he knows not what he is talking about when he…

The cycle of war: Ukraine’s futility and America’s endless profiteering

6 October 2023 4:30 am

War never changes. It features different people in the same predictable patterns. Those with power manipulate those without to serve…

What comes after the Voice?

5 October 2023 5:00 am

Voice architects who think the ‘No’ campaign has tapped into a ‘deep well of racism’ could not be further from…

What the shot?!

5 October 2023 4:30 am

Would Australians have consented if they knew the potential risks?

Australia’s worker shortage crisis: a handbrake on economic growth

5 October 2023 4:00 am

It has become clear since the release of the federal government’s much-touted Employment White Paper that there is no comprehensive…

Laurence Fox: sacrificed to the gods of eco-fascism

5 October 2023 3:51 am

The BBC and its kin will insist that Laurence Fox’s ‘crime’ involved taking an on-air dig at a female journalist…

BLM Bambi?

5 October 2023 12:56 am

It was the shot heard around the world. I remember it like it was yesterday. I was curled up on…

Three strikes for the Yes23 campaign

4 October 2023 4:37 pm

The Australian Electoral Commission’s Twitter account has made for interesting reading in the lead-up to the Voice referendum. The social…

No special schools? Pull the other one…

4 October 2023 5:30 am

Some commissioners have suggested removing special schools. They mustn’t have worked in the good ones! At one point in my…

There’s a critical flaw in the Voice

4 October 2023 5:00 am

There’s a very important message I want Indigenous Australians to hear. If the ‘Yes’ vote is unsuccessful in the Voice…

Why I will vote ‘No’

4 October 2023 4:30 am

Australians are being asked to approve a permanent change to our Constitution. This change is racist in intent and divisive…

More like $50 billion: Kamahl’s $40 billion figure on Indigenous spending wasn’t too high

4 October 2023 4:00 am

The Sunday Project’s Hamish McDonald’s face expressed all the earnestness of an 18-year-old first-year university student naïvely trying to convince their…

Welcome to country: the racism of ‘arrivalism’

3 October 2023 5:30 am

Recently, I attended an outdoor painting festival. At the opening of the exhibition, the white Caucasian blonde MC did the…

The niche, elitist research of universities: a waste of money

3 October 2023 5:00 am

Each year more than $12 billion disappears into the abyss vaguely described as ‘research and development’ in the higher education…

UK Home Secretary: multi-culturalism has failed

3 October 2023 4:30 am

Suella Braverman didn’t mince her words when declaring that multi-culturalism has been a failure for the United Kingdom. The UK’s…

Victoria’s new Premier likes red shirts

3 October 2023 4:00 am

For his supposed sins, Jesus died on the cross at 3 pm. Crucified by the mob, a crown of thorns…

mRNA technology used in Covid vaccines wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

3 October 2023 3:40 am

As questions mount across the world regarding the long-term safety and efficacy of mRNA Covid vaccines, the Nobel Prize in…

Children’s Health Defense Australia: saving our kids after Covid lockdowns

2 October 2023 4:00 am

Few would disagree that the health of the children today foreshadows the health of the population tomorrow. With that in…

How dare you?! Rowan Dean on Noel Pearson’s speech

2 October 2023 3:27 am

We had two speeches recently for the ‘No’ side of the referendum. Warren Mundine’s speech – which was superb. Tony…

Don’t sit in silence. It’s your voice. Use it!

2 October 2023 2:22 am

We all have a voice, but perhaps the greatest challenge to humanity right now is that our voices are being…

Travels through the ruins of culture

2 October 2023 12:48 am

The uneasy groan, stutter, and clunking of the modern age rises through the square in Italy’s coastal port of Trieste.…

Daylight saving be damned

1 October 2023 5:00 am

I don’t like daylight saving. Never have. I was intolerant of it when I had to endure it from November…

Which premier is next?

1 October 2023 4:30 am

Political power is seductive. Just ask Victoria’s and West Australia’s now departed Premiers – Daniel Andrews and Mark McGowan respectively.…

Daniel Andrews was not a political genius

1 October 2023 4:00 am

I have heard commentators from all kinds of political positions commenting that the retiring Premier of Victoria was a person…

Rugby Australia and the ‘F’ Word

30 September 2023 1:06 pm

The Wallabies have been thumped by Wales by 40 to 6 in the Rugby World Cup. But to be honest,…