Flat White

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

Is Canberra’s strongest sceptic set for the high jump?

30 May 2018 12:46 pm

The Australian parliament is replete with closet-sceptics of human-caused catastrophic global warming. But Craig Kelly actually speaks out on this…

The Child Support Agency prompts fresh calls for a Royal Commission

30 May 2018 7:51 am

Try as they might to stop the almighty juggernaut of public experience catching up with them, the Child Support Agency…

Australia’s madrasases

29 May 2018 5:04 pm

It was nearly two decades ago that I offered to talk at the Anglican school my daughters attended on the…

Campion College shows we need more champions for the liberal arts

29 May 2018 2:36 pm

Launching the iPad 2 in March 2011, the Apple co-founder and former CEO, Steve Jobs, reflected that “It is in…

Can bumbler Birmingham protect western civilisation in our universities?

29 May 2018 7:46 am

It seems that the academic left in Australia, the same New Class left that captured the Australian Labor Party and…

How hipsters can patronise coloured folk in the name of anti-racism

28 May 2018 8:13 pm

It wasn’t a comedy show, it was documentary. That great journal of repute The Mail Online reports: An Oregon activist…

The lost soul of western civilisation

28 May 2018 1:16 pm

Well, the wedding of the year has come and gone. The pomp and pageantry is starting to fade. And the…

Hastie wasn’t hasty but right on time

28 May 2018 7:54 am

When the Member for Canning, Andrew Hastie, rose last week to warn, under parliamentary privilege, of the encroachment on Australian…

The battle of Kokoda

27 May 2018 11:57 am

Editor’s note: After publishing the Charlie Lynn article Losing Kokoda on May 14, we received a letter in response from…

Sally McManus finds her inner capitalist

26 May 2018 7:41 am

It would probably be hard-pressed to think of anyone you know who voluntarily paid more taxes than they’re required. And…

An unprecedented attack on faith and freedom defeated

25 May 2018 6:37 pm

The advancement of religion has been recognised as a charitable purpose in the common law since at least 1601. Australian…

Yassmin confirms she’s a narcissist

25 May 2018 4:11 pm

There is pretentious, and then there is Yassmin Abdel-Magied. Writing for The Guardian, she proudly escalates narcissism to a whole…

The good girl lie

25 May 2018 2:04 pm

Society likes to package female sexuality in a conservative and sanitized way. Women are portrayed as demure creatures incapable of…

White flight: it’s real

25 May 2018 10:17 am

New South Wales Labor leader Luke Foley does not deserve to be publicly executed for speaking truthfully. The criticism against…

How safe is your house from confiscation?

25 May 2018 8:14 am

People regularly talk about things being “as safe as houses” and the great Australian dream of owning your own home…

Block, unblock

24 May 2018 7:28 pm

A fascinating court decision regarding The Donald and the First Amendment. The Verge reports: It is unconstitutional for public officials, including…

Want to lower power costs? Sell the whole damned lot off

24 May 2018 4:55 pm

Electricity networks have recently come under fire from the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) for allegedly passing on unnecessary costs to…

Young, restless and right-wing

24 May 2018 12:46 pm

My millennial generation is a strange machine. Some years ago, the New York Times described us as having “a sense…

It’s not just tax and spend but tax and lie

24 May 2018 7:50 am

If Scott Morrison and Malcolm Turnbull were corporate CEOs, they’d be done for misleading and deceptive conduct. They claim that…

Senator Sea Patrol’s spectacular

23 May 2018 2:12 pm

God bless her. Senator Sarah Hanson-Young must still be feeling the effects of the celebrations after she (just) retained the…

Our sheepish Liberal little lambs

23 May 2018 12:45 pm

You may have noticed an outpouring of profound grief for the thousands of sheep that died while on their way…

Don’t ban donations, ban donations from crooks

23 May 2018 8:02 am

“It’s the Bjelke-Petersen era again,” is the meme every time a centre-right party moots a policy on just about anything…

Love in the time of austerity

22 May 2018 7:34 pm

It’s usually the stranger, the foreigner, who see a nation’s flaws, fears and foibles more clearly than the natives. Think…

Liddell is just part of a bigger battle

22 May 2018 4:44 pm

Like a border skirmish that develops into a global conflagration, John Howard’s policy to require “two per cent additional energy”…

Stacking all decks

22 May 2018 1:01 pm

At a very early age in a budding politician’s career, they learn how to stack; not as children with a…