Flat White

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

God is good but mammon pays the rent

15 August 2017 8:27 am

I am a small business. Things are not exactly great and the world isn’t flush with funds and every dollar…

Their ABC on Barnaby’s bother: biased and banal

14 August 2017 7:30 pm

So, how’s the ABC responding to Barnaby Joyce’s little spot of bother? With all the class that you’d expect. Its…

Leadership means real promises on real policy

14 August 2017 9:31 am

Bill Shorten probably can’t believe his luck. The Liberal Party has spent the entire Winter break and the first week…

Australia’s deindustrialisation

14 August 2017 7:27 am

High energy prices are causing Australia to deindustrialise. Earlier this month mining giant Glencore’s chief Peter Freyberg’s called for the…

I believe the children are our future?

13 August 2017 7:15 pm

What do German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Theresa May, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon,…

Their ABC: entirely unaccountable

13 August 2017 7:31 am

It is a thesis of Media Watch Dog that no one really runs the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.  Not the chairman…

Chinese whispers overs North Korea

12 August 2017 3:44 pm

Australia could – and should – play a vital if silent role in the (literally) frightful face off between the…

Driving Christianity from the public square

11 August 2017 6:06 pm

Children are once again being used in an aggressive Green/Left campaign aimed at imposing a hard line secular orthodoxy, contrary…

Domestic violence: more money, wrong priorities

11 August 2017 1:44 pm

The sturdy snowball of the feminist driven domestic violence industry is accumulating more and more layers of funding. What a…

Their ABC dumps impartiality with gay abandon

10 August 2017 7:38 pm

This morning The Australian reported ABC staff had been warned to zip it over marriage equality: ABC News Editorial Policy…

Pat Dodson’s sense and sensitivity

10 August 2017 4:32 pm

A refreshing note of practicality, even sanity, was injected into the sound and fury of the same-sex marriage debate this…

Energy policy: the meatgrinder of the poor

10 August 2017 7:37 am

The outstanding success of the South Australian government of giving their people the highest power prices in the world is…

Big government’s war on young Australians

9 August 2017 4:34 pm

The major parties, unions and the bureaucracy have declared economic war on young people which threatens to create an invisible…

A politically incorrect three-point plan for government

9 August 2017 7:16 am

Same-sex marriage off the agenda? Here is my politically incorrect list of what any right-of-centre political party in Australia needs…

Christian Leaders oppose assisted dying, The Age plays shocked

8 August 2017 7:51 pm

The Open Letter from Christian Leaders to Premier Daniel Andrews on assisted dying has drawn criticism from ‘the usual suspects’.…

When campus claims of sex abuse meet politics

8 August 2017 4:09 pm

For nearly thirty years I served as a university college head in four different institutions.  Before that I was myself…

The republican suicide squad

8 August 2017 1:05 pm

When Bill Shorten gave the keynote address the Australian Republican Movement annual dinner last month, Peter Fitzsimons gushed at how…

United in idiocy

8 August 2017 7:09 am

The two major political parties may well be goofing around playing a tag game of dumb and dumber at the…

The Dean Smith Five

7 August 2017 7:21 am

Watching Liberal senator Dean Smith on the ABC’s Insiders on Sunday morning, I was impressed by the quiet and dignified…

What would Menzies make of marriage equality?

6 August 2017 7:39 am

What would Sir Robert Menzies have made of attempts to conscript his name to the cause of redefining marriage in…

Somewhere in Sri Lanka, someone is making something.

5 August 2017 4:02 pm

Researching history with the hope that your research will eventually turn itself into a book can take you places. It’s…

The Age’s big week

5 August 2017 9:00 am

It’s been a big week for Fairfax Media and The Age — a big week in their decline. First there…

The left can’t meme

4 August 2017 12:08 pm

Having grown up in the 1980s and 1990s I remember a time when popular culture mocked the right wing stiff.…

Bureaucrats play God, break Caesar’s law

4 August 2017 7:25 am

Education Department officials in Queensland have decided that primary school students can’t talk about Christianity or even give Christmas cards…

Happy holidays with the Byron Bay bed tax

3 August 2017 8:36 pm

While much of the nation confronts an incessant meth problem, our major political parties struggle with a different kind of…