Flat White

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

Loans are a wrong and risky way to help small business, Mr Treasurer

22 November 2018 2:01 pm

The Federal Government’s proposed $2 billion small business loan scheme is the wrong response to a real problem. The decline…

Inequality in education is about more than money

22 November 2018 11:45 am

Opponents of non-government schools often claim Australia’s school system is grossly inequitable. But this is not true. Multiple international OECD…

The one huge problem with multiculturalism

22 November 2018 9:09 am

The greatest enemy of migrants in Australia is a bad immigration policy; an immigration policy that generates anxiety and suspicion…

Is that Thanksgiving turkey “he”, “she” or “ze”?

21 November 2018 2:37 pm

Life imitates Portlandia: Proof positive: It’s time to buy your turkey. But this year, you can also read about your…

Labor’s energy deal: Shorten facts, but you’ll pay more

21 November 2018 12:03 pm

Sucked in by spurious claims of the loss of 99 per cent of all coral reefs, mounting natural disasters, a…

Why has Australia left Asia Bibi to the mercy of the mullahs?

21 November 2018 8:27 am

The case of Asia Bibi – the Pakistani Christian mother falsely accused by her Islamic female neighbours of blasphemy, but…

Journos are only human, so forgive us our press passes

20 November 2018 7:48 pm

Journalists are human. That is an undisputed fact, though many in Canberra – not necessarily politicians- regard them as the…

Mutti and Macron: a tragic tale of thwarted love

20 November 2018 4:45 pm

You probably thought it was not possible to accurately equate the relations between nation states with personal human relationships. That…

Crying wolf on poverty

20 November 2018 12:04 pm

Yet another sensationalist headline on poverty in Australia has appeared this month, indicating poverty rates in Victoria are as high as…

Will Daniel Andrews invoice Bourke Street businesses for police time?

20 November 2018 7:53 am

Following the Bourke Street terrorist attack on Friday, November 9, Victorian Police Minister Lisa Neville may be secretly considering whether…

No sex, please, we’re Millennials

19 November 2018 6:21 pm

Social and religious conservatives rejoice: teenagers and young people today are having far less sex than a generation ago; teenage…

Tatt’s no good: the gender wars strike Queensland’s clubland

19 November 2018 12:38 pm

“Perfect friendship”, declared Aristotle, “subsists between those who are good and whose similarity consists in their goodness: for these men…

The age of unreason

19 November 2018 7:53 am

We have entered an age of unreason; an age when the evidence of our senses and the sentences and words…

On International Men’s Day eve: a tribute to the Unknown Father

18 November 2018 8:40 am

The unknown soldier was buried in the ‘Hall of Memory’, at the Australian War Memorial on 11 November 1993. Twenty-five…

Love is not love if you don’t toe the rainbow-coloured line

17 November 2018 6:13 pm

Love is not love, obviously, when a small activist minority of gay bullies intimidate a husband and wife publishing team…

Escaping the academic inquisition

17 November 2018 4:18 pm

That we have ever come – or, rather, come back – to this point again is the sad indictment of…

The week in misandry

16 November 2018 12:25 pm

A quick peek at what’s going on the flip side of feminism – where it’s all about women. White Ribbon…

What makes the Mullahs mad (let alone so many of their flock)?

16 November 2018 6:47 am

It seems that Islam is causing massive waves of mental illness around the world. If we collate the responses to…

Forget the poleys, save the Inuit

15 November 2018 3:21 pm

No matter how much CO2 we pump into the atmosphere, the big white bastards simply aren’t starving and drowning fast enough:…

Why do some Muslim leaders worry more about semantics than terror?

15 November 2018 7:44 am

Muslim community leaders could learn a thing or two from the Prime Minister’s press conference held after the Bourke Street…

EXCLUSIVE: Did we just kowtow to terror? After last week?

14 November 2018 6:47 pm

The Australian Government has refused to offer immediate asylum to Asia Bibi, the Christian woman falsely accused of blasphemy in…

Fcuk orf

14 November 2018 1:13 pm

I want to be upfront with this. There will be no beating around the bush. I want to see the…

Amazing vape, how sweet the smoke…

14 November 2018 7:58 am

Mother Teresa once famously said “I was once asked why I don’t participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I…

Don’t mention the jihad?

13 November 2018 7:39 pm

It seems a lot of people are pretty unhappy that Scott Morrison has dared to speak of “the radical and dangerous ideology…

The sliming of Roger Scruton

13 November 2018 7:03 pm

If you’re a conservative, there’s no doubt that you’ve heard about Roger Scruton or come across his works. Scruton is…