Flat White

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

Saving South Africa – and the West – from the CRT boomerang

15 April 2023 1:25 pm

South Africa looms large in the Western imagination. Not only as a country of strategic importance due to the commodities…

A voice of emotion, not reason – of judgment, not mercy

15 April 2023 5:00 am

We humans have always been emotional. It is part of who we are as self-conscious beings. But the use of…

Alan Jones: Reflections on Easter

15 April 2023 4:00 am

Easter has come and gone, but the need for reflection will never pass. In an increasingly materialistic world, it does…

Should we re-brand conservatism to ‘Freedom of Enterprise’?

14 April 2023 7:00 am

It is both the name and the delivery of ‘Conservative Politics’ that is losing the votes and voters. As I…

The Voice: do not, under any circumstances, explain anything

14 April 2023 6:00 am

The marketing strategy for The Voice to Parliament ‘Yes’ campaign can be written in one sentence: do not, under any…

Are mobile phones our salvation or damnation?

14 April 2023 5:00 am

The insidious spread of misinformation has revealed the dark side of communication; our increasing addiction to our devices puts us…

We are all Indigenous somewhere 

14 April 2023 4:00 am

The Voice is an anathema to a nation that believes in equality – a nation that does not look to…

Elon Musk vs The BBC

13 April 2023 2:05 pm

James Clayton’s recent interview of Elon Musk is a peek behind the media curtain. And it makes for a gasp-out-loud,…

Alan Jones: Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto should be sacked and this is why

13 April 2023 6:00 am

Let me be blunt. The Victorian Liberal Party leader, John Pesutto, should be sacked. The following story proves it. With…

The merchants of gender activism

13 April 2023 5:00 am

Nietzsche wrote in his notebooks, reflecting on the decay of civilisation that his acute senses have registered, that, ‘We are…

South Africa: the forgotten nation

13 April 2023 4:00 am

Vladimir Putin’s ongoing brutal war against Ukraine. The Chinese Communist Party’s continued aggression in our region. An upsurge in violence…

The religion of gender

12 April 2023 8:00 am

I don’t know about you, but the days following the Let Women Speak riot in Auckland have changed my life.…

Flat broke: Dan Andrews has run out of other ‘other’ people’s money

12 April 2023 7:30 am

Everybody knows that Labor governments are rubbish with money. They sit around for years, spearing holes in the bottom of…

Australia’s ‘green energy’ chimera

12 April 2023 7:00 am

The government has asked the Joint Committee on Trade and Investment Growth to inquire into ‘Australia’s transition to a green…

Staying the Liberal course: with wall-to-wall red, blue politics is on the ropes

12 April 2023 4:00 am

It’s not difficult to determine that the Liberal Party appears in trouble. With wall-to-wall red states minus Tasmania, a popular…

The Deeming saga

12 April 2023 3:00 am

Menzies would have known what to do

Dutton’s first victory: Julian Leeser moves to the backbench

11 April 2023 3:26 pm

The Liberal Party’s Shadow Indigenous Australians spokesman and Attorney-General Julian Leeser has defied Dutton’s leadership decision to support the ‘No’…

The People vs. Big Australia: Albo’s housing crisis

11 April 2023 7:00 am

Do you recall Labor’s announcement during the 2022 election that it was going to increase immigration to record high levels?…

Restoring trust in public health

11 April 2023 6:00 am

‘Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.’ –…

Australia’s Labor Dark Ages will end in a Liberal victory

11 April 2023 5:00 am

These are dark days for the Liberal Party. Labor governments now dominate the Australian continent while deeply divided Oppositions are…

Science betrayal

11 April 2023 4:00 am

There is no surer proof that people are losing faith in the scientific establishment than the recent Rasmussen poll of Americans…

Has identity politics created a state of madness?

10 April 2023 5:29 pm

‘Does having children change your perspective on history, politics, philosophy, and the future of humanity? If so, is part of…

Identity politics and the challenge to conservatism

10 April 2023 12:23 pm

In the aftermath of Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull’s visit to New Zealand, Prime Minister Hipkins was embarrassed at his regular post-Cabinet press…

Reporting from the Marxist front line

10 April 2023 6:00 am

This Easter, Australian Marxists are conducting their big shindig, Marxism Conference 2023, at Melbourne University. I’m attending. It’s important to understand what…

Pesutto seized his opportunity to fail as a leader

10 April 2023 5:00 am

It’s been a gut-wrenching fortnight for Liberal Party supporters watching the vilification of Moira Deeming, who, through no fault of…