Flat White

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

They’re bruised and bemused, but the base is still staying loyal

10 April 2018 7:48 am

Cory Bernardi probably thinks he’s an Australian Ronald Reagan. With an almost messianic approach, he believes he is uniting a…

The Age’s strange but short-lived honesty

9 April 2018 8:45 pm

For weeks now the “Independent. Always.” Melbourne Age has been recycling Greens Party talking points — sorry, let’s be specific…

There is another…

9 April 2018 7:44 pm

David Flint is part of the chorus demanding that our Dear Leader do the right thing and resign as Prime…

Their ABC thinks it’s time for a women-only parliament

9 April 2018 4:35 pm

Grandiose sweeping statements from their ABC are becoming increasingly bombastic and more comical. “Democracy is failing its brief with its…

Fairfax, Folau and FitzSimons

9 April 2018 2:02 pm

The Fairfax papers has become so strident in their LGBTIQ advocacy that they cannot tolerate anyone having a view other…

Since when has the taxman ever been a friend?

9 April 2018 11:41 am

It is curious that Australians can be so apathetic about high taxation. Being still in the final stages of the…

‘Ello, ‘ello, ‘ello. Wot’s this ‘ere ‘ate crime going on, then?

8 April 2018 8:53 am

Have no fear. The good old British bobby’s here. Meanwhile, London’s Daily Telegraph reports: While both London and New York have…

Illegal immigration fuels the new American civil war

6 April 2018 5:58 pm

Much of the anti-Trump media and their echoes in Australia must believe people are fools, given their propensity for misleading…

Bursting Di Natale’s slackernomics thought bubble

6 April 2018 11:53 am

Universal Basic Income, a social welfare system where every citizen is unconditionally entitled to receive a fixed amount of money…

The Uber confessional

6 April 2018 7:52 am

If you ever wondered why the Catholic Church guards the sanctity of the confessional so zealously than you need look…

China, red in tooth and claw

5 April 2018 8:48 pm

One of the photographs in Clive Hamilton’s ground-breaking expose ‘Silent Invasion China’s influence in Australia is of ANU Vice-Chancellor Brian…

Malcolm Turnbull is right on one thing

5 April 2018 6:09 pm

A stopped clock is right twice a day. Malcolm Turnbull? Well, he had some very good things to say about…

Julia Gillard’s gender facepalm

5 April 2018 12:20 pm

Julia Gillard has said she played the gender card all wrong. Good news, you may think? Most intelligent, cognisant adults…

Universities need charters of intellectual freedom

5 April 2018 7:40 am

The latest politically correct madness at the University of Sydney — gender, race, sexuality, and class background quotas at the nation’s…

What crisis of conservatism?

4 April 2018 7:19 pm

Last month I attended The Australian’s ‘Big Voices on Big Issues’ panel discussion in Melbourne. Senior columnists Janet Albrechtson and…

Stand by for the Cultural Revolution 2.0

4 April 2018 4:22 pm

To the left, a slippery slope is not a logical device, it’s their business model. Just in from (where else?)…

To the promised land

4 April 2018 11:51 am

It’s fifty years since Martin Luther King Jnr stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis and received…

Their ABC’s privilege propaganda pratfalls

4 April 2018 7:59 am

Last week, the ABC has decided to close down its Facebook page for its children channel ABC Me, after it…

Do Trump’s gut feelings beat the tenets of the left?

3 April 2018 4:50 pm

One has to admire Donald Trump’s gall. Against the best economic advice that the experts could give, he went and…

Do ice cream sales increase shark attacks?

3 April 2018 12:48 pm

Labor MP Andrew Leigh’s study on data around effective company tax rates and employment shows incomplete analysis that mistakes correlation for…

Diversity is not a strength

3 April 2018 9:06 am

Possibly the greatest myth propagated by modern Western culture is that diversity is an essential ingredient for a successfully-integrated, progressive…

Why borders exist – and matter

2 April 2018 4:53 pm

No matter how much I try I can’t get my head around the common leftist (and libertarian) delusion that national…

Their ABC’s anti-religious hypocrisy

2 April 2018 11:53 am

It’s a bit rich for Julia Baird and Hayley Gleeson, having spent the previous twelve months conducting a special ‘investigation’…

Is it Monash or Marxist University?

1 April 2018 3:22 pm

Monash University, the first Australian university to introduce trigger warnings, appropriately begins their “#CHANGEIT” advertising campaign by declaring “SOME OF…

Want to fix big government? Ban public sector workers from voting

1 April 2018 7:30 am

The American revolutionaries claimed that “taxation without representation is tyranny”. In other words, taxing people, while denying them the vote,…