Flat White

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

iWant generation is a corporate feeding ground

4 June 2024 3:00 am

‘Don’t care how, I want it now!’ shouts Veruka Salt, from the weighing room of good eggs and bad eggs…

Misinformation laws will not stop the next violent attack, but will shield politicians from tough questions

4 June 2024 2:30 am

Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, is pushing ahead with her frivolous lawsuit against social media platform, despite a slap…

Federal Budget forgets what Hawke knew about growth

4 June 2024 2:00 am

‘We will not be able to just spend our way out of the mess: we must work our way out of…

Donald Trump: our last stand against globalism

4 June 2024 1:13 am

Donald Trump is a symbol. He represents humanity’s last stand against the globalist tyrants who wish to snuff out the…

Modi’s ignorance of Gandhi’s renown shocks the world

3 June 2024 3:30 am

Modi’s recent remark about Gandhi’s renown, or in his mind, lack thereof, has shocked the whole world. While giving an…

Foreign issues dominate Australian politics

3 June 2024 2:30 am

I miss the days when Australian politicians were only interested in solving Australian problems. Maybe that was never the case,…

Everyone is catching subsidy fever! But will it really lower inflation?

3 June 2024 2:00 am

Subsidies are politically infectious right now. Jim Chalmers and Anthony started the latest outbreak with energy subsidies, which they claimed…

Money in decline, society in decline

2 June 2024 11:59 am

Society is declining in value because our money is declining in value. This is self-evident. And yet every time I…

NSW refuses to pardon 3,628 children for breaching pandemic orders

2 June 2024 9:28 am

New South Wales police fined 3,628 children between 2020-22 for Covid-related ‘offences’. Most were from low socio-economic LGAs. Of these,…

Voice referendum failure is still misunderstood

1 June 2024 3:38 am

The profound misunderstanding why over 60 per cent of voters rejected the Voice referendum’s proposition is demonstrated in a May…

The death of the American legal system is the rebirth of Trump

31 May 2024 12:32 pm

Today we announce the death of the US legal system. The death of Justice. The death of Democracy. And the…

Brace Yourself

31 May 2024 11:27 am

Former President Trump was convicted on all 34 counts by the Manhattan jury. Actually, these are just the same alleged…

A new energy transition: coal, nuclear, and natural gas

31 May 2024 1:45 am

What is the ‘energy transition’? For Labor, it is a transition to renewables. For the Liberals, it is a transition…

Shark mitigation for surfing

31 May 2024 1:24 am

Over recent decades, an increasing rate of shark attacks worldwide has prompted many scientists, entrepreneurs, and governments to develop shark…

US Dollar hegemony

31 May 2024 12:48 am

In 1970, at a meeting in Washington DC, former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger asked then chairman of the…

Hamas is being supported by TikTok diplomacy

31 May 2024 12:37 am

On May 20, the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor, Karim Ahmad Khan KC (a British national), called for the arrest of…

Alex Antic: Julian Assange and a Trump Rally

30 May 2024 11:56 am

Late last year, I joined a Parliamentary delegation to the United States to speak to US lawmakers and department heads…

Banning live export threatens disaster for Western Australia

30 May 2024 11:32 am

Like other Australian urbanites who stomp around our capital cities in their RM Williams, my current knowledge of the bush…

On the road to Gadigal land

29 May 2024 2:00 am

How many of us as kids enjoyed – or were forced to undergo – family road trips? Mile after mile…

Labor’s ‘risky reactors’ double standard

28 May 2024 11:47 pm

Safe for the Navy, not safe for ‘Net Zero’...?

The ICC defends one false moral equivalence by making another

28 May 2024 11:32 pm

Last week, in an article in The Australian, I joined many from around the world denouncing the moral equivalence from…

Terrorism to heroism – the Hamas trajectory

28 May 2024 11:21 pm

How long before a gun-toting, slogan-chanting Hamas fighter (but not a female) is invited to address the UN General Assembly?…

A stealth boondoggle

27 May 2024 11:13 pm

The NDIS is a public policy albatross, initiated with the worthiest of intentions, that has been allowed to mutate into…

The Sofronoff Express at platform ‘speed’

27 May 2024 10:34 pm

The Magna Carta meets the ACT’s legal system on the Sofronoff Express in what promises to be a historic and…

Glaciers, graziers, glaziers, and the strangler fig

27 May 2024 2:50 pm

A perfunctory search on Wikipedia informs that the Strangler Fig, Ficus watkinsiana, ‘grows on another tree, using it as physical support, while…