Flat White

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

‘Who’ matters

6 January 2024 2:11 am

Perhaps the only positive to come from the Israel-Hamas war and its upheavals is that it has opened up space for an…

Brewing truth: climate doomsayers’ cooked-up coffee crisis

6 January 2024 1:12 am

Every day, people across the world wake up to news about climate change affecting their lives. With the seeming randomness…

Bowen’s homemade recipe for an energy debacle

6 January 2024 12:20 am

Rewiring the nation won’t happen by rewriting history. Markets work best through light regulation and promoting competition. Government has a…

20 years since John Howard’s renewable energy policy

5 January 2024 2:25 am

It is now just over 20 years since John Howard introduced a renewable energy policy which required wind/solar-generated electricity to…

Green Day: the end of punk rock

5 January 2024 12:09 am

Green Day’s middle-aged, middle-finger to middle America shows the band known for political irreverence has become politically irrelevant. Once anti-establishment…

The real pandemic

4 January 2024 1:38 pm

We were told that Covid was a pandemic: and yet less than 1,000 died of Covid prior to the introduction…

Music and the well of human spirit

4 January 2024 2:00 am

Amongst the huge volume of online viewing options that dominate our televisions these days, occasionally there are gems that speak…

Life’s too short to battle public health puritans – I’m over it

3 January 2024 4:00 am

When I’m not compiling the Morning Double Shot email, or talking on the radio, my professional role is as a…

Clover Moore’s ‘Blak power’ New Year’s Eve fireworks (for kids?)

3 January 2024 3:55 am

The ABC has been dragged from one end of social media to the other after the appallingly political and nauseatingly…

The haunting certainties of Australian Digital ID

3 January 2024 3:30 am

Of what can we be certain regarding the two Digital ID Bills opened by our federal government to public comment…

King Charles vs Ayn Rand

3 January 2024 1:50 am

Is it only the political movement of Climate Change in which we need to be wary of King Charles III,…

Cyclones are not evidence of a climate apocalypse

2 January 2024 5:15 pm

The damage from recent Cyclone Jasper has taken many, including the Bureau of Meteorology, by surprise. The failure to predict…

Dear Chris Bowen – a New Year’s letter

2 January 2024 4:00 am

Stop enduring those night sweats, Mr Bowen … fear not! CO2 is safe. It’s welcome. I write to you openly…

Power on, livelihoods off

2 January 2024 4:00 am

While some companies are set to gain millions of dollars, other individuals fear they will lose hundreds of thousands of…

Christianity in decline

1 January 2024 3:00 am

It is platitudinal to claim that Christian religions in Australia are in decline. Indeed, for several years, Christianity has been…

Space junk

1 January 2024 2:00 am

Like space junk in the stratosphere, the Western fiction-sphere is increasingly cluttered by a vast cloud of unfinished stories. This…

Bid to exclude Trump from 2024 primaries raises grave constitutional concerns

1 January 2024 1:00 am

The 2024 presidential election is already proving to be a breeding ground for controversy, with states taking an audacious step…

Tesla’s Skynet moment

31 December 2023 10:33 am

The news cycle dragged itself out of the Christmas hangover with headlines such as the Daily Mail’s: Tesla robot ATTACKS an…

Michelle 2024?

30 December 2023 2:37 am

David Axelrod is America’s smartest political strategist on the left. He has an impressive track record in backing longshots who…

A teetotal Parliament House?

30 December 2023 2:01 am

Christmas seems a good time to bring up alcohol. Having recently moved to Manly, I am now living near the…

Barossa ban risks turning Australia into a trade pariah

29 December 2023 12:02 pm

Australia has a hard-won reputation as a reliable trading partner throughout our region, but without serious red tape reduction, and…

The government’s censorship agenda is out in the open

27 December 2023 10:11 pm

The federal government has previously maintained that its proposed misinformation laws would not allow the government to censor the internet.…

It’s the narrative, stupid!

27 December 2023 9:36 pm

The Climate Emergency movement is an illustration of the ‘power of a narrative’. The mass of people caught up in…

The energy Grinch

27 December 2023 2:06 pm

Just before Christmas, the CSIRO presented the government with an analysis in support of their beliefs that wind and solar…

Failing Israel in its darkest hour

27 December 2023 12:55 pm

At 6.29 am on October 7, nearly 3,000 Hamas terrorists invaded the State of Israel unleashing one of the most…