Flat White

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

Grounded realities

13 July 2018 3:18 pm

‘Social democratic parties have a problem selling opportunity and hope, while conservatives easily sell fear and trepidation’. I am paraphrasing…

Australian troops fear Afghan lawsuits

13 July 2018 10:18 am

Thousands of Australian military personnel who served in Iraq and Afghanistan are at risk of being dragged through the courts…

Time to call out misandry in the media

13 July 2018 7:43 am

To believe that misandry is any better than misogyny is to have no concept of equality. So, who wants to…

From a home of the enlightenment to one of its greatest products

12 July 2018 7:39 pm

There are few better places in the world for a Scotsman to spend to spend a three-month Sabbatical than Sydney.…

A quick quiz you can’t win

12 July 2018 6:21 pm

Who are these people? Without giving the quiz game away, here are some characteristics of people who belong to a…

Judge Brett Kavanaugh v Your ABC

12 July 2018 3:14 pm

If you thought American politics was a passionate and emotive affair, President Trump’s appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to the United…

I’m transgender – and proudly conservative

12 July 2018 12:20 pm

I’m a transwoman, and this is my #walkaway story. I grew up in a conservative Catholic, Labor-voting family in South-Western…

“A curfew for men”, you say? A few questions…

12 July 2018 8:43 am

Pretty much the entire population in Australia has had enough of the man bashing. They’ve had enough of the boiling…

Free speech Kiwi roadkill

11 July 2018 9:35 pm

It was frighteningly authoritarian when the Mayor of Auckland and former Kiwi Labour leader, Phil Goff, decreed by tweet on…

Fine dining with Lettuce and Lavender

11 July 2018 5:21 pm

Lettuce and Lavender wanted their friends to see their new home nestled amongst the tall gums at the base of…

Edmund Burke down under

11 July 2018 1:11 pm

Accepting the Edmund Burke Award in November 2016, John Howard paid homage to the eighteenth century Anglo-Irish statesman, remarking that…

Build our boys, guard our girls

11 July 2018 10:15 am

As a high school youth pastor, I recently sat my boys down and we discussed Christian teaching as it related…

Gun lore

10 July 2018 5:57 pm

I took the bullet in the chest and fell over dramatically, in what I hoped was slow motion, rolling down…

The big British babies bawling about Trump – and tantrum tyranny

10 July 2018 1:25 pm

It seems that one of the things which people on the left fear most is being taken over by some…

Who defends our defenders?

10 July 2018 7:57 am

Last week Defence admitted former Lt Colonel Karel Dubsky was an innocent victim of the Jedi Council witchhunt that terminated…

The Australia Institute snubs the coal, hard facts

9 July 2018 5:58 pm

Advocacy is core business for think tanks, but when does advocacy become propaganda? When the think tank is the grandly…

How the ABC’s facile feminists boost the baser instincts

9 July 2018 2:01 pm

One of Australia’s least funny comedians, Tom Ballard, is at it again. No, not of being accused of sexual assault—a…

Gatecrashing the funeral for selfies

9 July 2018 7:50 am

On June 18, Clementine Ford drip-fed some more man-hating nonsense to her brainwashed minions in an article for Fairfax Media. Done and…

Excuse me, but this consent strategy is bonkers

8 July 2018 7:18 pm

Drum roll… NSW’s new Sexual Assault Strategy has been released. Prevention of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Minister Pru Goward…

Fake news and appointing judges

8 July 2018 4:59 pm

I have made a point of reading dozens and dozens of different mainstream media accounts of the recent retirement of…

What’s Paris still worth?

8 July 2018 12:18 pm

In 1593 Henry of Navarre, a Protestant prince turned Catholic to win the French crown, supposedly remarked, “Paris is well…

Beware of Hamas hubba-hubba

7 July 2018 6:19 pm

Would you like to do some internet dating with Hamas? Associated Press has the story: The Israeli military said Tuesday it…

Their ABC “the most trusted news source”? Here’s a theory

6 July 2018 4:12 pm

It was Abraham Lincoln who said, ‘You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of…

Leave the high life of Canberra? Decentralisation push exposes bureaucratic hypocrisy

6 July 2018 12:25 pm

For just over a century, the public service has been building capital city monoliths to centralise power, decision-making and policy…

Hey, dudes, back off: a defence of millennials

6 July 2018 9:48 am

I fully appreciate that millennials – “cossetted, pampered and spoiled” – deserve a good touch up. After all, I am…