Flat White

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

Rope-a-dope: conventional protest as cover for the real revolt

23 September 2023 1:06 pm

The governance mechanisms in Australia, and the West more broadly, are so manifestly corrupt that they are beyond salvage. The…

Cheerless, friendless, broke – Victoria in 2023

23 September 2023 12:25 pm

The decrepit state of Victoria in 2023 is far, far worse than it was when Labor was dramatically booted from…

Cometh the hour, cometh the woman

23 September 2023 5:57 am

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in a nation’s history, when a new star is born in the political…

Naught for crosses? Ticks are just as ambiguous

22 September 2023 1:03 pm

It is disappointing that the Federal Court ruled on Wednesday, September 20, that a tick on the Voice referendum ballot…

On the question of Aboriginal sovereignty

22 September 2023 5:00 am

‘There’ll be plenty of people saying the next thing is a treaty. Now I think, of all of the absurdities…

What’s that you mean by ‘Diversity’?

21 September 2023 6:00 am

One thing that is now undeniably clear is that virtually all of our elites who, with tedious regularity, espouse the…

Powerless advice or powerful instruction?

21 September 2023 5:30 am

At the Press Club last week, Senator Jacinta Price asked the question that I have been asking for over a…

Who wants the WHO anyway?

21 September 2023 5:00 am

Australians have until 11.59 pm Sunday 24 September 2023 to voice their objections to proposed changes to international law which would…

Acknowledgements of Country, smoking ceremonies, and Australia’s austerity problem

21 September 2023 4:30 am

Australia has an austerity problem. The country, which once prided itself on its larrikinism and self-determination, has been so admonished…

Dear Employer: leave my ‘personal development’ alone

20 September 2023 5:00 am

In a glass office building that overlooked Elizabeth Quay and the Swan River, my two senior team leaders sat me…

Wokeism complicates the raising of kids

20 September 2023 4:30 am

One of the dilemmas raising children in an era when Wokeism dominates every institution is whether to bluntly express your…

Unions are stealing the Voice of members

20 September 2023 4:00 am

Members of Labor Party-aligned unions have no choice but to sponsor ‘the Voice’. By controlling members’ money, biased union bosses funnel millions into social agendas the majority of members disagree with.

The Voice: a state-empowered race collective with strong communist leanings

20 September 2023 12:28 am

Last week, we were treated to ‘Yes’ activist Thomas Mayo addressing a crowd of CFMEU members about the Voice to…

Activists silent as communists parade at ‘Yes23’ rally

19 September 2023 3:54 pm

If Australia’s Left-wing hegemony were sincerely concerned about injustice, they’d be out in force condemning the ‘Yes’ campaign’s association with…

Labor’s immigration hypocrisy: young and vulnerable hit hardest

19 September 2023 5:00 am

Chris Minns – who lives in a house – seems to think you should live in an apartment, and the…

Welcome to a country of crony capitalism

19 September 2023 4:00 am

There’s a new welcome uttered around the Albanese government offices: ‘We acknowledge the fawning directors present and emerging of the…

Hello darkness my old friend

19 September 2023 3:00 am

The other night my wife and I sat down to a nice candle-lit dinner and a glass of wine, but…

Decarbonise the planet, are they mad?

19 September 2023 2:00 am

The lunatic scheme to sequestrate carbon dioxide (CO2) several kilometres underground has been initiated by government programs, including Australia, with…

In plain sight: Disease X and the countermeasure cartel

18 September 2023 6:00 am

As a Gen Xer, I’m old enough to remember the Cold War and US-Russian tensions in the ‘arms race’. I…

If I were as brave as Jacinta

18 September 2023 4:30 am

This week, Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price demonstrated her credentials as a potential Australian Prime Minister. She is a member of…

New College of Florida is right to abolish gender studies

18 September 2023 4:00 am

Predictable accusations have greeted the announcement by Manhattan Institute fellow Chris Rufo, trustee of the New College of Florida, that the…

Stopping the ChatGPT cheating epidemic is racist…?

18 September 2023 3:30 am

While at a grocery store over the weekend, I came across a pair of Year 10 girls from a nearby…

Is Australia self sufficient?

18 September 2023 3:00 am

Australia’s unsettling lack of industrial and productive self-sufficiency was accentuated throughout Covid, with the ramifications of vulnerable international supply chains…

Desalination… Will it work this time?

17 September 2023 4:10 am

With the return of Premier Palaszczuk, overdue decisions will need to be made about water supply for the South-East corner…

Unexpected costs

17 September 2023 4:00 am

Manipulated estimates of Levelised Cost of Energy tables showing wind and solar to be the cheapest supplies of energy are…