Flat White

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

Marise and the Mad Mullahs

5 October 2018 7:42 am

Marise Payne is the new Foreign Minister of Australia; she will be an even more pareve version of Julie Bishop.…

How Ford denied Kavanaugh a defence

4 October 2018 8:56 pm

It isn’t that Dr Catherine Blasey Ford’s testimony to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee alleging attempted rape by Judge…

How Fred Flintstone flattened the Iron Curtain

4 October 2018 3:11 pm

On September 30 1960, at 8:30 PM, ABC network aired the first episode of “The Flintstones”. The late broadcast hour…

Ten flaws with Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony

4 October 2018 7:57 am

I once heard of a young woman who decided to become a Christian after reading a single verse from the…

Brett Kavanaugh has religious protections against lunatic left-wingers. We don’t

3 October 2018 6:24 pm

I am sure you all remember that old poem by the German Lutheran Pastor, Martin Niemöller. No? Then let me…

The ‘tampon tax’ is not sexist. Removing it is

3 October 2018 12:21 pm

The price of a name-brand pack of ladies’ sanitary pads with wings is around $5.00. A packet of name-brand extra-absorbent…

Does our “culture of whatever” mark a new dark age?

3 October 2018 7:40 am

It’s almost an absurd question. Smartphones have put the world’s knowledge at our fingertips. Passenger jets fly us to the…

World, welcome to the middle-classes

2 October 2018 5:06 pm

While the media has been obsessing about Judge Kavanaugh, whatever President Trump’s latest rude tweet was and the ramblings of…

How the Greens power plan would leave you in the red

2 October 2018 7:18 am

One of the under-reported stories to come out of last week was Greens leader Richard Di Natale’s address at the…

MBT: Malcolm Boycott Turnbull?

1 October 2018 3:19 pm

In the annals of Test cricket, there’s never been a cricketer as self-centred, single-minded and selfish as English batsman Geoffrey…

Chinese eyes, Five Eyes

1 October 2018 8:47 am

The ABC’s China correspondent, Mathew Carney, recently delivered a chilling report on mass surveillance in communist China, Leave no dark…

Brett Kavanaugh and the #MeToo inquisition

30 September 2018 5:11 pm

One particular aspect that has been repeatedly overlooked—yes, I’m referring to you Huffington Post—throughout the whole judicial fiasco involving the…

The victimhood Olympics

30 September 2018 1:26 pm

When you don’t have real stories; when your “journalists” aren’t experienced or credible enough to get real stories — or…

Climate catastrophe: an update from Tim Flannery

28 September 2018 7:05 pm

It’s my fault. I should not have been browsing The Guardian Australian website. There I was, minding my own business,…

Enid Lyons: the speech of the nightingale

28 September 2018 2:26 pm

In one of his many colourful metaphors, Prime Minister Billy Hughes once described Australia’s first female Federal parliamentarian as “like…

Their ABC exposed, implodes

28 September 2018 10:24 am

The GayBC has become a creature of its own imagination. Observing incandescent staff delight from its far-right commentators – Phillip Adams, Barry…

We can’t even get the Australia Day we have already right

27 September 2018 4:53 pm

Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie is only the latest politician to mistakenly suggest that Australia Day celebrates the arrival of Captain…

Sex, sexual harassment, and those left wing lunatic women

27 September 2018 1:26 pm

It seems that sex is on everyone’s mind these days. There is, of course, that great free intercourse provider, otherwise…

Daniel Andrews’ free speech protection racket

27 September 2018 7:36 am

The Victorian Police’s decision to issue a bill to the promoters of Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux’s speech event in…

For real Scomentum, drain the billabong

26 September 2018 2:28 pm

Our political class are being seen more and more as arrogant and as out of touch as the French aristocracy…

Hell hath no fury like…

26 September 2018 11:39 am

‘Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” Or so Lord Byron said – and if anyone would know, it’s…

We need nukes

26 September 2018 7:37 am

As Hugh White, Professor of Strategic Studies at ANU, has been telling us over the last few years, the world…

Michael Moore bombs

25 September 2018 7:45 pm

Trump Derangement Syndrome is flourishing on the bestseller lists – Bob Woodward’s Fear, anyone – but not so much on the…

Budget (almost) balanced; now for the vote buying

25 September 2018 4:48 pm

One of the rituals of the federal Budget cycle is the release of a final budget outcome for the preceding…

All deaths in custody matter

25 September 2018 12:51 pm

I’m horrified to see sensible people I know organising prayer vigils for “Aboriginal deaths in custody”. This is alarmingly gullible…