Flat White

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

Confucius say: relax

5 December 2018 7:43 am

You get a glimpse of the real purpose of education when you look at the liberal arts curriculum offered here…

The Incumbent Preservation Society

4 December 2018 5:09 pm

The leaders on the way out (I was going to write “outgoing” but it would have been confusing because in…

The Bushes, McCains, and the death of republican virtues

4 December 2018 12:01 pm

The death this year of John McCain, George H W Bush, and his wife Barbara has seen the revival of…

Sex for rent

4 December 2018 7:50 am

According to feminist doctrine. Women are powerless, desireless and lack sexual agency. They retain zero autonomy over their bodies.  And…

Fifty shades of red

3 December 2018 8:43 pm

Normally socialism, er, buggers you through high taxes, over-regulation and social control: A growing wave of sex-positive feminists are working to…

Flat White: a statement

3 December 2018 5:24 pm

Last week the Flat White website published a letter from a reader with an accompanying illustration. The post was removed immediately…

No, no, no Celinununu!

3 December 2018 5:09 pm

The Canadian megastar, Celine Dion, appears to have gone the full Trudeau—and I don’t just mean voting for Justin—by launching…

An incontrovertible truth (or two)

3 December 2018 12:30 pm

My address to the Climate Change Conference, Katowice, Poland, December 2 – 14, 2018: Special greetings to Al Gore Al,…

Australia should cop out of COP-24

2 December 2018 4:51 pm

Prime Minister Morrison should make no new commitments at the COP24 climate-fest this week in Poland. We do not trust…

The new Big Day Out

2 December 2018 2:11 pm

Hi mum, just got back from the Parliament House climate change protest. Protesting is just like Schoolies Week with lots…

Why the New Testament shouldn’t come with trigger warnings

1 December 2018 7:51 am

Demands for the New Testament and Koran to contain alerts in the margins of those passages that have been used…

Tinker, tailor, soldier, Mr Harbourside Mansion?

30 November 2018 4:22 pm

George Papadopoulos has gone to gaol, it seems, for lying to Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller. Scott Morrison is going into…

It’s time the Tattersalls president stood up for equal rights for men

30 November 2018 11:48 am

Revolution is brewing in Brisbane’s venerable Tattersalls Club, but it’s not about letting in women. In fact, the revolution is…

Liberals note: conservative does not mean reactionary

30 November 2018 7:50 am

Congratulations to Dan Andrews and Labor on a very strong result. Their ability to campaign effectively should never be underestimated…

Your social credit has been declined

29 November 2018 7:35 pm

I prefer to live in a country where I can rate my government and not the other way around – but…

Apocalypse not

29 November 2018 4:12 pm

I have read that Pope Francis believes that climate change is such a big danger to the planet that it could turn…

Derryn Hinch’s public sex offenders register would be outrageous

29 November 2018 11:57 am

In the wake of last weekend’s Victorian State election, Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party (probably with four shiny Upper House seats)…

After Victoria, Liberals still have the values and the ideas to win

29 November 2018 8:19 am

Another Victorian election, and another Liberal loss, leaving the state with a financially profligate and socially radical government in near…

Ten reasons why Imran Khan’s theology is just not cricket

28 November 2018 1:51 pm

Imran Khan, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, caused controversy recently when he said in a speech celebrating the anniversary of…

“Progressive” ideas didn’t win Victoria, conservative ideas went missing

28 November 2018 7:32 am

I don’t believe for one moment that Daniel Andrew’s stunning election victory means Australians are converts to “progressive” politics. Does…

The EU’s anti-science laws hit here

27 November 2018 8:49 pm

Prime Minister Scott Morrison recently announced that he’d be passing up the United Nations’ Migration pact on the basis that a global…

Caution: gay people crossing

27 November 2018 4:49 pm

First we’ve had skirts put on pedestrian crossing lights’ little people, because apparently, unlike children, some adults think that stick figures…

Bernardo Bertolucci and fake news

27 November 2018 1:18 pm

The great Italian film director, Bernardo Bertolucci died on Monday.  The bloke is hardly cold and the savages are already…

The surveillance state’s chameleons

27 November 2018 8:02 am

In the USA they are collaborators with the “deep state”. In Australia, they are champions of privacy. Global tech companies…

The Victorian Liberals caused their own catastrophe

26 November 2018 6:18 pm

Now the dust of last Saturday’s electoral bloodbath in Victoria is starting to settle, it’s time for some sober reflection. …