Flat White

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

The world’s flattest batteries

5 April 2023 4:00 am

Kites are thought to have originated in China over two thousand years ago. Since the original incarnations, kites have evolved…

Trashing the right to be commercial

4 April 2023 6:00 am

For a long time, Australian unions, labour academics, and their political fellow travellers have sought to cut away at the…

Climate change and the rhythm of life

4 April 2023 5:30 am

As a teenager, I was entranced with the song The Rhythm of Life from the movie Sweet Charity sung by Sammy Davis Jr.…

Social Justice or Social Darwinism?

4 April 2023 5:00 am

Ever since the days of Richard Hofstadter, one of the Left’s favorite accusations to hurl against its enemies has been…

Torture-Resistance course weakens Army

4 April 2023 4:30 am

The current Federal court case around the Conduct After Capture (CAC) course is just the latest in a long line…

Why an Australian recession is almost guaranteed, even in a benign world

4 April 2023 4:00 am

In 2019, Australia’s economy was stalling. House prices were declining even though mortgage rates were only about 3.25 per cent.…

Democracy under stress in America and India

3 April 2023 8:00 am

The United States is the world’s oldest, most powerful, and most consequential democracy for the future of free peoples everywhere.…

Richard Dawkins committed the cardinal sin

3 April 2023 6:00 am

The West is a theocracy. Not a Christian theocracy – or even an Islamic one – but rather a theocracy…

Did the federal government refuse to protect women?

3 April 2023 5:00 am

If you caught the news last week, you might have wondered, what on earth is going on in the nation’s…

Cancel Mozart

3 April 2023 4:00 am

Why should we stop at cancelling the world’s greatest explorer, Captain James Cook, and the greatest playwright, William Shakespeare? Why…

Lessons from Japan

2 April 2023 7:00 am

Japan is Australia’s third largest trading partner and is involved with India and America in the quad strategic dialogue. After…

North Korea: the man who would be God

2 April 2023 5:00 am

There were around 50 of us standing in a car park and waiting for something but we didn’t know what.…

What does reconciliation look like?

2 April 2023 4:00 am

Reconciliation. The word is used almost automatically, especially in the context of the arguments about the Voice referendum. It sounds…

The politics of hunger

1 April 2023 9:00 am

Starvation has ended more than one political empire. The pages of human history are frequently chaptered by acute moments of…

The green foods time bomb

1 April 2023 7:00 am

Green propagandists continue to inflict lethal damage to our electricity industry – it has become unreliable and expensive. Their intrusive…

The death of New Zealand’s MSM

1 April 2023 5:00 am

Until recently I was a member of the mainstream media in New Zealand. A proud member. I have loved being…

Greenflation: heating the economy to cool the planet

1 April 2023 4:00 am

Nowadays, it’s almost impossible to miss the bombardment of virtuous sentiment surrounding climate change. We’re constantly told by the 21st…

Have we militarised medicine?

31 March 2023 4:45 pm

It’s war, Jim, but not as we know it… ‘In the absence of information, we make up stories.’ These words…

Any Swastika ban must include the Hammer and Sickle

31 March 2023 5:30 am

As the Australian Federal government contemplates the prohibition of the Swastika, it is crucial to address the inherent tension between…

Let teachers teach

31 March 2023 5:00 am

As recent footage of a teacher losing control of a New South Wales classroom received widespread coverage in the media,…

The Xi-Putin Moscow Summit: did we learn anything?

31 March 2023 4:30 am

Xi’s recent three-day visit with Putin in Moscow brought with it several takeaways. China and Russia are deepening their relationship…

Alan Jones: the Liberal legacy is catastrophic defeat

31 March 2023 4:00 am

One thing is for certain coming out of the New South Wales election last Saturday. Just as the mainstream media,…

Submarines for landlubbers

30 March 2023 1:53 pm

Submarines, despite recent ill-informed comments from ex-Prime Minister Paul Keating, are currently a very expensive, ‘must have’, item in the…

The ugly side of activism

30 March 2023 7:00 am

J. Mitchell Sances’ recent article about ‘gay erasure’ on the political left says much about what advocacy organisations tend to become…

Mandatory testing for $15 smoke alarms, but not cyber security plans?

30 March 2023 6:00 am

In the wake of Australia’s latest customer data exfiltration attack affecting possibly 14 million Latitude stakeholders, we read that the rate…