Flat White

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

Rev. Calvin Robinson: a crisis of faith for the Anglican Church?

7 March 2023 5:30 am

What follows is one of the most articulate and powerful speeches you are likely to view this year. It is…

Sea level rises?

7 March 2023 5:00 am

Who would believe that the whole world has just woken up to the fact that climate changes? It changes constantly…

Alan Jones: Rio Tinto and Taiwan, or is that ‘Greater China’?

7 March 2023 4:30 am

I have long wondered whether Australia’s corporate world places its interests above all others, including the poor coot in Struggle…

The Left’s aversion to teacher quality is harming our kids

7 March 2023 4:00 am

The Productivity Commission has recently thrown down the gauntlet on teacher quality, and its importance to the nation’s economic health.…

From lockdown paradise to love island: Australia’s bizarre pilfering of UK doctors

6 March 2023 2:48 pm

Last week, whilst perusing the internet, I stumbled upon a rather amusing story. It turns out a delegation from Western…

The fact-checker industrial complex

6 March 2023 5:30 am

I tuned in the other day to an excellent webinar titled Prayer and Pushback organised by the redoubtable Pat Mesiti. It was a…

Australia’s social credit score Olympics

6 March 2023 5:00 am

‘Made in China’ … three words that most people on the planet will recognise. For more than half a century,…

Labor uses every trick to dodge interest rate rise blame

6 March 2023 4:30 am

Due in March this year is the report of the Review into the mandate and operational arrangements for the Reserve…

The ‘anti-discrimination’ bandwagon – coming to a school near you

6 March 2023 4:00 am

You have to hand it to the ‘anti-discrimination’ warriors – they are effective. Watch them go from city to city…

Big Tech showdown: DeSantis floats Digital Bill of Rights

5 March 2023 4:30 am

Ron DeSantis has tabled a citizen vs. Silicon Valley, Digital Bill of Rights, designed to hand Floridians protections against Big Tech overreach.…

Productivity is never an accident

5 March 2023 4:00 am

As our inexperienced (but trying hard) Prime Minister and his vainglorious Treasurer attempt to right the budget ship and stop…

Printing money: inflation comes for the West

4 March 2023 7:26 pm

Groceries aren’t rising in price and giant supermarket chains aren’t making record profits. The value of money is collapsing. That’s…

Finally, we can talk about the Wuhan Lab

4 March 2023 2:22 pm

In early 2020, a New York Times headline scoffed, Senator Tom Cotton Repeats Fringe Theory of Coronavirus Origins. This week, the newspaper of…

The Australian education system is woefully outdated

4 March 2023 1:09 pm

The aim of the Australian education system is to provide ‘a system that supports participation and helps all Australians reach…

Super self-own

4 March 2023 4:00 am

The libertarians are having an ‘I told you so’ moment. A friend of mine who has long championed not putting…

Bipartisanship: a wolf in sheep’s clothing

3 March 2023 1:22 pm

During a parliamentary year, many bills are made into law which have bipartisan support. The danger is to fall into…

Boundless plains to share?

3 March 2023 12:42 pm

One of the more dominant themes intertwined in the great story of Australia is that of the bush. Embedded into…

How green was my valley? The changing face of the Green movement

3 March 2023 5:30 am

How Green was my Valley? The 1939 novel and film of the same name, by Richard Llewellyn, was based in…

The RBA (reckless bank of Australia) needs a radical, not reserved, review

3 March 2023 5:00 am

In a YouTube clip from the BBC show Blackadder II entitled The Idiots Guide to Alchemy, an exchange between Lord Blackadder (LB)…

We got Bernie, now let’s get Moira

3 March 2023 4:30 am

What do you get if you combine Attila the Hun, Jack the Ripper, and Genghis Khan? Why, a conservative Christian…

Breaking the silence: a ‘how to’ guide

3 March 2023 4:00 am

So far, we’ve looked at the case for the suspension of Covid injections and how vested interests contributed to the silence of Australia’s…

Ban these books!

2 March 2023 6:00 am

The curious and eager nature of some to desperately find something to be upset about, like an overexcited bloodhound, is…

Family Law Reform fiasco – riches for lawyers and poverty for children

2 March 2023 5:30 am

The proposed Family Law Amendment legislation by the Labor government will be another case of rearranging the deck chairs on the…

Alan Jones: Albo’s victory is stained with dishonesty over super

2 March 2023 5:00 am

I have said for some time that politics is not about personality, but about policy. You hear people say, I…

No me digas! Spain is leading Europe’s feminine swing to the right

2 March 2023 4:30 am

After almost three winters of discontent, Europe is swinging to the right and – reminiscent of the UK’s response to…