Flat White

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

Are we banning single-use condoms too?

28 June 2018 10:32 am

I heard it on ABC News Radio so I am sure it is correct. The presenter interviewed Peter Whish-Wilson the…

Discrimination, or just good brain function?

28 June 2018 8:06 am

It’s home economics class at the pre-school. Today the children are learning about kitchen utensils. The teacher has almost exhausted…

The ABC needs reforming – and fast

27 June 2018 5:50 pm

While the government has ruled out the privatisation of the ABC, the almost 2:1 vote in favour of doing so…

Religion, repentance and refugees

27 June 2018 4:09 pm

Tonight, in the national capital, Brian Douglas, the Rector of St Mark’s Anglican Church at Manuka and the Archdeacon on…

Never interrupt your enemy

27 June 2018 1:16 pm

Napoleon Bonaparte once observed, ‘never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake’. Politics can be defined as war…

Children, migration and blackmail

27 June 2018 7:46 am

Children are an endless source of moral blackmail in causes of the Left. Nowhere is this truer that in migration.…

Catholic schools should trade funds for freedom

26 June 2018 6:01 pm

A centre-right government and the largest non-government school system in Australia should be natural allies. But you wouldn’t think so,…

Time to rediscover the enlightenment with the lighten-upment

26 June 2018 12:03 pm

Wit and wisdom go together like … a gin and tonic? Whatever. They add fizz and flavour to the everyday,…

That precious poppet is yours, not the state’s

26 June 2018 7:57 am

We are living in the age of entitlement. Need proof? Take a quick look at the curious demands of left…

Everything wrong with Australian politics in just one paragraph

25 June 2018 9:36 pm

From today’s Australian, everything that is wrong with our politics in just one paragraph: There’s no need to add anything…

That Nobel’s looking better, people

25 June 2018 6:01 pm

It’s early days yet, but this is an interesting — and swift — development. The BBC reports: Over the past…

Taylor Swift still isn’t interested in politics

25 June 2018 4:31 pm

You have to wonder if celebrities have a clause in their contract to voice their political opinions, but more specifically…

Dear men, it’s time to quit work

25 June 2018 1:15 pm

In news we apparently all missed Australia is rich. As a country we have zero debt and therefore the marvellous…

When the left became louche

25 June 2018 7:51 am

I discovered a new word this week: ‘louche’. Just in case you hadn’t heard of it before either, according to…

Happy birthday Brexit, c’mon CANZUK

24 June 2018 2:56 pm

With the two-year anniversary of the Brexit referendum now upon the United Kingdom, the realities of a life outside the…

American mania

24 June 2018 2:55 am

America’s current crisis over illegal immigration, family separations and border policies generally, have highlighted and exacerbated the nature of America’s…

The real carbon crisis

23 June 2018 3:06 pm

We’ve got a real carbon crisis, people. Associated Press explains: No beer at this time of year? A British trade…

Tax cuts? What tax cuts?

22 June 2018 5:56 pm

The government has pulled a switfy. They’ve got everyone thinking they are going to cut taxes. They aren’t. Taxes are…

How identity politics programs for failure

22 June 2018 4:14 pm

Safe spaces. Cry closets. Emotional support animals. While Australian campuses are yet to import such features the notion of restricting…

The Ramsay Centre and how our academic appeasers censor students’ right to learn

22 June 2018 12:49 pm

The University of Sydney’s jellyback Vice-Chancellor Michael Spence has given many excuses for why he may not accept the money…

Donald Trump’s honest politics

22 June 2018 7:46 am

We are now a year and five months into the Trump presidency and the commentariat are still at a loss…

The concept of the university

21 June 2018 5:32 pm

David Long writes: In the December of 2001, a group of about 70  past students gathered in the St John’s…

Where have all our entrepreneurs gone?

21 June 2018 1:04 pm

Australia is has experienced a gigantic fall in entrepreneurship. Between 2003-05 and 2012-14, small business start-ups — as a percentage…

Memo Julie Bishop: get us out of the UNHCR

21 June 2018 7:29 am

Political leadership: leading the way on values with action. Doing what is right. Explaining and defending it clearly. Examples: this…

Faith, truth, love – and beauty

20 June 2018 5:20 pm

Of all the left’s grievances against western civilisation, few are as old or as constant as its demonisation of Christianity.…