Flat White

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

Religion as a political football

24 December 2022 7:00 am

It’s no secret that many on the progressive Left despise Judeo-Christian faiths and their legacy on Western Civilisation. Their pro-Islam…

Phelps breaks AHPRA’s culture of fear

23 December 2022 2:06 pm

Dr Kerryn Phelps AM has been a household name in Australia since the 1990s. I remember well her frequent appearances…

Saving the planet at high speed

23 December 2022 10:00 am

Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan has saved his forests from the sustainable, renewable timber industry. (Saving our forests and controlling…

Deny Daniel Andrews Communion?

23 December 2022 7:00 am

Christmas is coming and Daniel Andrews, a self-professed Catholic, has been naughty, not nice. His actions, words, and policies often…

Liberal review heads in the Right direction

23 December 2022 4:00 am

After considerable media teasing, the-anticipated report into the Liberal Party’s electoral failure last May has finally been released. Conducted by…

Chris Bowen’s rendezvous with bad ideas

22 December 2022 9:00 am

Back in July 2022, Chris Bowen the Minister for Climate Change and Energy, launched the latest CSIRO electricity costs report which…

Bitter politics

22 December 2022 4:00 am

I have two mottoes. This first is ‘never look back’ and the second, and more important one in these troubled…

Kerryn Phelps’ vaccine injuries: the silence is deafening

21 December 2022 4:25 pm

‘…but-but-but we’re not one of those crazy, far-right, neo-Nazi, conspiracy theory, cooker, anti-vaxxers!!! We really did suffer from serious vaccine side effects!’ The…

Betray back better

21 December 2022 10:00 am

Early on in March 2020, I was leery of the hysteria surrounding Covid and decided my course of action was…

Colourful writing must die to protect the feelings of the rich and vacuous

21 December 2022 6:00 am

The pearl-clutching hypocrites were up in arms this week about a colourful writer and media commentator being exactly that, a…

Museums of vandalism, doomsayers, and climate catastrophe

21 December 2022 4:00 am

It is probably fair to say that the last few months in the life of the average gallery attendant has…

Ruddy hell – Kevin’s our Man in Washington

20 December 2022 2:09 pm

In the dead of the silly season, when thoughts are turned to last-minute presents and dreading the obnoxious uncle turning…

MERS: there’s no accounting for human stupidity

20 December 2022 1:38 pm

After Monkey Pox turned out to be a real disappointment as a successor to Covid (with a rather politically awkward…

#MeToo: the creed of hypocrisy

20 December 2022 10:00 am

Australian actress Margot Robbie recently revealed in an interview with E! News that she gave Brad Pitt an unscripted kiss in a…

Blacktivists boot black neurosurgeon

20 December 2022 7:00 am

Detroit’s school board has cancelled acclaimed neurosurgeon, Dr. Ben Carson, based upon claims ‘his name on a school was synonymous with having Trump…

Who wants to run a gas company?

20 December 2022 4:00 am

Between mid-2020 and late 2022, average gas prices in the eastern states of Australia increased four times, according to figures…

Setting fire to the climate straw man

19 December 2022 10:00 am

As the inevitably painful consequences of unfounded climate alarmism hit home with our very own energy crisis, Australians are entitled…

2030: a glimpse of dystopia

19 December 2022 8:00 am

The year is 2030. Steven and Melissa are a young Global Citizen couple who have just received wonderful news –…

Is the feminist mafia controlling science funding?

19 December 2022 4:00 am

Melbourne University research fellow Dr Anna Kosovac is a civil engineer and an expert in water policy. Last year she…

Has TikTok’s time run out?

18 December 2022 4:55 pm

The US Senate has (finally) decided to ban Chinese social media app TikTok from government devices after years of criticism…

Reforming Australia’s child support system

18 December 2022 10:00 am

Australia’s child support system was introduced by the Hawke government in 1988. Since that time, it has undergone various incremental…

A close encounter with American healthcare

18 December 2022 4:00 am

In November 2013, I had my only encounter with the American healthcare system after finishing the New York marathon. It…

The joke’s on Xi: China will not keep its climate fortune

17 December 2022 9:00 am

China is kidding itself if it thinks Western mining corporations and tax-hungry governments are going to sit around and let…

The rise of the citizen confronter

17 December 2022 8:00 am

News and social media loves a good ‘vox pop’; you know, the voices of those near the Main Road of…

John Howard was right about Medicare

17 December 2022 6:00 am

The Hawke government introduced Medicare in 1984. Once John Howard replaced Andrew Peacock as Opposition Leader in 1985, Howard repeatedly…