Flat White

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

Give us the tools to tackle terror

1 January 2018 12:26 pm

The recent terrorist outrage in Melbourne, as well as the too-frequent rampages by immigrant criminal gangs in that city, will…

The Week Before Christmas

22 December 2017 3:02 pm

T’was the week before Christmas And all through the House No person was stirring, not even a mouse. The files…

2017: a year to acknowledge the leaven of faith in Australian politics

22 December 2017 12:50 pm

With Australian politics becoming somewhat top-heavy with careerist party-hacks and apparatchiks who view power for its own sake as the…

But it’s not terrorism

22 December 2017 9:30 am

From The Age this morning: The horrific attack on pedestrians at a busy intersection in Melbourne’s CBD is not believed to be…

Star Wars and the Christmas story

22 December 2017 7:21 am

The cinema was packed, but we just had to see ‘The Last Jedi’ for ourselves. We were so fixated we…

Heading home this Christmas

21 December 2017 6:08 pm

Some will head home joyfully this Christmas. Others? Not so much. As the latter will tell you, if home is…

Do the Jedi look a lot like Islamic State?

21 December 2017 3:30 pm

Imagine this: a poorly educated kid from an isolated rural area is enticed by a message from a woman he…

BYO gender, BYO race

21 December 2017 1:08 pm

I often seek out BYO restaurants, to avoid paying exorbitant prices for wine, and turn up at the appointed dinner…

With political pistol firing, Barnaby makes a big boo

21 December 2017 7:52 am

Captain Barnaby Joyce has steered the good ship National Party into choppier waters with the dumping of Darren Chester from…

Star Wars has always been a leftie fantasy

20 December 2017 3:48 pm

The latest of the Disney “Star Wars” franchise is out, and it’s already dividing the audiences – and not just…

Cultural Marxism’s war on freedom

20 December 2017 7:27 am

One of the things that characterise Left-leaning journalists is their Cultural Marxism. And one of the chief ways in which…

Net neutrality? Bahaha!

19 December 2017 4:33 pm

Another reminder that “net” is never neutral: Twitter began a massive purge of users on Monday the company claims violate its…

Holt anniversary barometer to slide in standards

19 December 2017 7:27 am

Beer is flowing at pubs and clubs and fuel is available at the bowser even if prices may be opportunistically…

“Citizen jury” rules against High Court

18 December 2017 6:14 pm

The MP citizenship debacle that was swept the ranks of political parties in federal parliament throughout much of 2017 and…

Bennelong win doesn’t cure dying Liberal culture

18 December 2017 3:03 pm

While voters went to the polls in the Bennelong by-election, in Melbourne I attended the memorial service of a local…

Billabong Boy waltzes into Melbourne Clown Hall

18 December 2017 12:03 pm

A young blond professional environmental activist who has never had a real job is set to become the City of…

Bennelong to Turnbull: change or go

18 December 2017 7:23 am

Unlike New England, which was very much Barnaby Joyce’s victory, the Liberal win in Bennelong may be credited to the…

Making Victoria’s euthanasia laws: consultative and thorough

17 December 2017 7:24 am

I refer to Making Victoria’s euthanasia laws: a process to be shunned, by my friend and colleague, the Hon Robert Clark…

A nation guided by the moral fashion of the day

16 December 2017 6:26 pm

The whole same-sex marriage debate involved a lot of talk about right and wrong. Whether someone voted “yes” or “no”…

Just another night in Melbourne

16 December 2017 12:48 pm

Youths.  Just another night in Melbourne: Hundreds of youths have allegedly bashed and robbed tourists amid a series of wild brawls on…

Mea culpa: Abuse angst grips churches

15 December 2017 5:09 pm

All hell has broken loose on Australian churches now the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has…

Conservatism is more than Milo’s mockery

15 December 2017 1:19 pm

Unlike the parent Speccie in the UK, the Australian rendition has decided to take on the mantle of Milo Yiannopoulos.…

The Indigenous Procurement Policy makes ticking boxes easy

15 December 2017 10:59 am

The federal government’s Indigenous Procurement Policy (IPP) is regularly touted as ‘supercharging’ the Indigenous business sector. But the flawed way…

China girl

15 December 2017 7:20 am

Before I begin, I should give something of a personal ‘disclosure’. I am currently the associate minister of a Christian…

Dasher is only the iceberg’s tip

14 December 2017 3:06 pm

A Labor parliamentarian who, it is revealed, has links to a foreign power that attempts to retrieve information on Australia’s…