Flat White

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

The Kim ‘n’ Donald Show

13 June 2018 12:01 pm

As the Good Book says, by their fruits ye shall know them. Summits mean nothing, their consequences everything. We should…

Has Dark Mofo lost its mojo?

13 June 2018 7:53 am

Dark Mofo is one of those pretentious displays of artistic expression that make most people roll their eyes and sigh.…

This is going to end well…

12 June 2018 5:18 pm

Who guards the guardians? Quis custodiet ipsos custodes and all that. The Daily Caller has the answer: Four of the world’s biggest…

The Singapore spectacular

12 June 2018 2:24 pm

With the President-for-two-terms of the United States, Donald J Trump and the President-for-life, Kim Jong Un actually in Singapore for…

Nukes 101 with Kim Jong-un

11 June 2018 3:35 pm

Kim Jong-un’s nuclear bluff looks like working. He and President Trump are on Singapore soil as I write, preparing to…

Why we should celebrate Australia’s refugee policy

11 June 2018 8:24 am

As someone who grew up in a church community that welcomed refugees to our country from places as far afield…

Abbott was right to fight the left

10 June 2018 9:27 pm

Australia’s former prime minister, Tony Abbott is blamed for nearly everything these days. Higher rates of suicide amongst LGBTIQ youth,…

Maybe it’s not academic freedom, but the wrong name

10 June 2018 1:26 pm

The debate grinds on. Last week Australian National University Vice-Chancellor Brian Schmidt, an astrophysicist who probably never imagined things could…

Who really won the sexual revolution?

10 June 2018 7:50 am

Chivalry is a virtue, but only when exercised responsibly. Unfortunately, men have so gone overboard in their chivalry that many…

Our universities and more…

9 June 2018 10:11 am

I suspect a fair few readers are pretty incredulous about the whole Peter Ridd saga at James Cook University. Ridd…

Deft diplomacy beats foreign aid

8 June 2018 3:51 pm

Two recent incidents have called into question the role of Australia’s foreign aid program. Indonesia raised eyebrows last week, after…

The great undiagnosed dysrationalia epidemic

8 June 2018 12:54 pm

I have long wondered why really intelligent people, like Malcolm Turnbull, say, and others, fail to see how irrational it…

Time to end the closed shop of ideas at university

8 June 2018 7:44 am

Imagine, if you will, a parallel universe in which the ANU accredits the Ramsay Centre. The Centre produces a mission…

Sick of news

7 June 2018 8:05 pm

We’re sick of news, apparently. I can’t say I’m particularly surprised: If you feel like there is too much news…

What Tony Abbott really meant about western civilisation

7 June 2018 4:46 pm

Because we can criticise episodes of the abuse of power by Western nations or the descent to nonsense by those…

Feminists ride the judicial power wave

7 June 2018 12:53 pm

Everywhere you turn there is a culture clash over the sexual revolution. Consent laws are currently being reviewed in NSW,…

Jordan Peterson and the “homo liberatus”

7 June 2018 7:51 am

Like many young men who are inclined to the right, I have recently become a fan of Jordan Peterson. I’m…

The true minimum wage

6 June 2018 4:20 pm

Talking about a minimum wage is not the same as discussing increasing wages or increasing standards of living. These are…

Meanjin’s #MeToo snafu goes nuts

6 June 2018 12:37 pm

It’s clash of the virtue signallers over in the left corner – and this time it’s beyond parody. Here is…

Why is the ANU afraid of what made us great?

6 June 2018 7:51 am

The Australian National University is so ashamed of our own cultural heritage that they have refused to offer a degree…

Virtue-signalling is in the bag

5 June 2018 3:28 pm

Today is World Environment Day. And to celebrate the occasion, Australians’ favourite oligopolies — Coles and Woolworths — are doing…

Paul Ramsay’s dream should be realised in a private institution

5 June 2018 12:46 pm

The Australian National University has cut ties with the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation (Paul Ramsay’s posthumous project for the…

How feminism is failing Vikki Campion

5 June 2018 7:27 am

A quick look at coverage of Barnaby Joyce and Vikki Campion’s supposedly tell-all interview confirms two things. Firstly, Joyce is…

Minimum wage hike is no boon for many

4 June 2018 5:35 pm

Late last week the Fair Work Commission recently increased Australia’s minimum wage to $18.93 an hour. Minimum weekly wages are…

The double standards of our cultural czars

4 June 2018 1:05 pm

If you were still in any doubt as to there being an unwritten double standard currently operating throughout the Western…