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CBD: Details? Details only distract from the vibe!
Our perspicacious political insider writes exclusively: The decisive victory by BS in the Leaders Debate has restored CBD’s faith in…
Greta Thunberg, child sacrifice
Children have become the latest political pawn in the promotion of climate change catastrophism. As one of the best examples…
Dr Dick and his Smokin’ Tokens
Someomes it’s best just to let the original speak for itself: (Of course, it would be even more egalitarian if…
CBD: the coming workers’ paradise (artist’s impression only)
Our perspicacious political insider writes exclusively: CBD has finally found a working practical application of the GULAG vision splendid for…
When Adam Bandt is your MP and the Labor alternative looks barely legal
It’s easy at referenda to write “YES we have NO bananas” but the green Reps ballot paper doesn’t give as…
CBD: how dare opinion polls disrupt the landslide narrative?
Our perspicacious political insider writes exclusively: While toiling a full six-hour day to ensure BS becomes PM the pressure is…
Backwards & Forwards: watch out Bill. This is all very Magpies and Blues, grand final 1970
The week in politics, the week to come. Looking back The Coalition shaded Labor last week, but this time by…
Handsome is as handsome does, Handsome Her
Last year, Handsome Her (a misandrist vegan cafe based in Melbourne) hosted an event titled: Can You Be A Feminist…
GULAG needs to recalibrate for the last three weeks
Our perspicacious political insider writes exclusively: CBD will be contributing regularly throughout the campaign. While CBD’s confession of taking heart…
EXCLUSIVE: Your very own Flat White cut out ‘n’ keep how to vote card for every electorate nationally
Prepoll voting begins in all 151 seats in the House of Representatives and the Senate tomorrow, but this is the…
Forget the “watergate” conspiracies: here is the truth about the Murray
The Murray Darling River is facing a plethora of publicity: fish deaths due to mismanagement of flows by the responsible…
Nazi-hunting in Kooyong
Hunting Nazis is hard work so painting Hitler moustaches onto Josh Frydenberg posters does us all a big favor. We’re…
CBD: Anzac, the woke day of the year down in MONAland
Our perspicacious political insider writes exclusively: CBD is usually at best ambivalent toward jingoistic celebrations. CBD’s moral superiority means CBD…
How the Greens don’t get capitalism yet star at self interest
The Greens, it would be fair to say, don’t understand captialism. Equally, it would be approprate to say that advertising…
The end of the world is nigh (and yet again millennials cop it hardest)
The religious impulse must be strongly imprinted in a human psyche indeed. As fewer and fewer people seriously subscribe to…
CBD: welcome to the GULAG – GetUp!, Labor and the Greens
Our perspicacious political insider writes exclusively: It’s now been just over two weeks since SM saw the GG and Election…
Prime Minister, stop praising multiculturalism
‘What do Australia’s founding fathers and cultural diversity have in common? Both celebrate this country’s great multiculturalism’, Scott Morrison believes.…
CBD: KO’s KOs against workplace justice and law boost BS
Our perspicacious political insider writes exclusively: We all want to earn more. What’s more we deserve more. Oh, how CBD…
To our glorious dead, but don’t forget the living
In a different age when navy Fleet Air Arm pilots flew flimsy wood and canvas biplanes, workplace health and safety…
Stand and fight for your ideas
A certain school of thought claims that what ails the centre-right of Australian politics is the failure to embrace a…
Will Labor fears force big business back to workplace reform?
The federal election campaign is underway. We already know the Big Unions will forcefully advocate for industrial relations changes, but…
Patronising the arts
The first of an occasional series by the Flat White team. “The Massachusetts of the south.” That’s how John Howard once…
When you see Bob Brown protesting, usual suspects, it’s Adani
Our perspicacious political insider writes exclusively: CBD admits the stench of naphthalene was overpowering. But when you’ve got no cut…
The AMA’s comic crew get the vapours
Those who have been to Venice have probably witnessed some form of Commedia Dell’arte, an improvised form of comedy where…
Smokin’ Joe Hildebrand: Bible school dropout
In what must surely come close to the modern-day equivalent of having committed career suicide, journalist Joe Hildebrand has converted…
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