Flat White

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

AGL: impoverishing the nation to boost its bottom line

14 December 2017 10:58 am

The supporters of renewable energy continue to claim – as they have for the past 30 years – that wind/solar…

Want to fight human trafficking? Ditch plain packaging

14 December 2017 7:28 am

December 1, 2017, marked the five-year anniversary of mandated plain packaging of tobacco products in Australia. Despite being touted as…

Another triumph from The Age

13 December 2017 8:54 pm

Have a look at the lead story in today’s Age — then have a look at the ad at the…

Presenting… The 2017 Nanny Awards

13 December 2017 5:51 pm

The Nannies, as we call the annual Centre for Independent Studies awards, go to the government’s most absurd attempts to…

Who’s afraid of the fabulous Milo?

13 December 2017 12:56 pm

It’s been a week since Milo Yiannopoulos graced the shores of Australia with his perpetually fabulous presence, leaving a trail…

Forget safe spaces, here’s a new solution for the offended

13 December 2017 6:46 am

We hear a lot about the need for safe spaces these days. In this article I discuss another type of…

By-bye Senator Dastardly – and hello Senator Sexy?

12 December 2017 9:27 pm

Senator –- Sino-tor? –- Sam Dastyari today pulled the plug on his career and resigned to spend more time with his family…

A Bennelong bombshell will leave Turnbull terminal

12 December 2017 6:06 pm

The Bennelong by-election is likely to lead to a change of leadership in the Liberal Party which if wisely done,…

Post-truth ethics

12 December 2017 12:55 pm

“Post-truth” is in the news: The Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the Year 2016 was post-truth – an adjective defined as ‘relating to or…

Bill Shorten finds religion(s)

11 December 2017 12:40 pm

An indication of Labor’s concern that in the same-sex marriage vote, the ‘No’s’ were concentrated in mainly migrant-populated suburbs, was…

What’s going to change in Australia with same-sex marriage?

11 December 2017 7:17 am

In the space of just a few decades, homosexuality has gone from being a criminal offence to a psychological disorder,…

The Clementine Ford mystery solved

10 December 2017 4:30 pm

Did some new truth in advertising law come into force on December 1? Has the Press Council issued a new…

Israel bashing: like porn for the left

10 December 2017 1:25 pm

This is like porn for much of the left today: The Zionist colonialists are just the latest warlords violently conquering…

ADF: the Australian Defence Farce

9 December 2017 4:42 pm

If you still have any uncertainty as to whether or not the Australian Defence Force has been ideologically hijacked by…

“The Ladies”

8 December 2017 3:08 pm

It starts with a directed look, then a roll of the eyes, then a glance to the side and finally…

Urban elites mustn’t ignore regional voices

8 December 2017 12:04 pm

It’s old news. Most who follow the thread of cultural and political “progress” recognise that those with the persistent temerity…

The hate campaign begins as #lovewins

8 December 2017 7:23 am

Let to be known that on the December 7, 2017 – the day in Australian Parliamentary history when “love won”…

Your $720 ticket to Sydney’s superfluous stadiums

7 December 2017 3:01 pm

The NSW Cabinet’s decision to demolish and replace the functioning Sydney Olympic Stadium and Sydney Football Stadium with two new…

Thanks for considering a few billion women sluts, guys

7 December 2017 10:53 am

Normalising “modest” wear. Afraid to be accused of bigotry or, even worse, being judgmental, media and business buy into the…

Making Victoria’s euthanasia laws: a process to be shunned

7 December 2017 7:14 am

Last month, Victoria became the only jurisdiction in the world to have voted to legalise euthanasia in 2017.  Why and how…

What Katy didn’t

6 December 2017 4:43 pm

What Katy Did is the heart-warming story in the Louisa May Alcott Little Women genre of a plucky and spirited Mid-Western girl who overcomes…

Milo’s mission to save Australia

6 December 2017 1:30 pm

A pathetic little man dressed in a dark suit scurried beside me in my aisle seat four rows from the…

Weaponising feminism

6 December 2017 12:07 pm

I have no idea whether or not Geoffrey Rush is innocent or guilty. And neither, probably, do you. To his…

Time to repent

6 December 2017 7:14 am

The Judas-half of the Liberal Party that backed the Turnbull coup and destroyed the Abbott prime ministership now needs to…

Their ABC’s seasonal stupidity

5 December 2017 8:31 pm

In many ways, it’s astounding that their ABC recognises Christmas at all. It is an explicitly Christian celebration, after all,…