14 May 2008
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Australian Politics
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Campaign Finance 2 Oct 2008
The Developer Cash In Clover's Campaign
by Norman Thompson
Sydney's Lord Mayor campaigns against political donations from property developers, but their money reaches her anyway, writes Norman Thompson
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Nsw Politics 26 Sep 2008
Whacking the Labor Party
by Meredith Burgmann
Development scandals, Underpants Guy and a strong swing towards the Greens: things are looking dire for Labor in NSW. ALP candidate for Lord Mayor of Sydney, Meredith Burgmann, gets the message - and reflects on where to from here
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Federal Politics 24 Sep 2008
Behind the New Shadow Ministry
by Andrew Bartlett
Andrew Bartlett takes a constructive look at the new Opposition front bench: why they were picked and what they're supposed to do now
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Nsw Politics 23 Sep 2008
Morris, the Minor Machine Man
by Alex Mitchell
The NSW Labor Party made Premier Morris Iemma, and then it destroyed him. Alex Mitchell traces the brief premiership of "Mr Dilemma"
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Struggle St 18 Sep 2008
Are You Experienced?
by Scott Bridges
Malcolm Turnbull once paid rent; Nathan Rees once took out the garbage: politicians are falling over themselves to prove their struggle street credentials. But is personal experience the only way to understand what others are going through?
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Politics 17 Sep 2008
That's Labor's Five Minutes of Political Sunshine Over
by Andrew Elder
Now that Labor has lost coast-to-coast control of Australian governments, the party has blown a once in a lifetime opportunity to effect deep and far reaching change, argues Andrew Elder
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Politics 17 Sep 2008
He's the Liberal the Liberals Love to Hate
by Irfan Yusuf
He may be a former merchant banker. He may be Australia's wealthiest politician. But the new leader of the Opposition is no conservative, writes Irfan Yusuf
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Nsw Politics 16 Sep 2008
No Cockroaches in this Operating Theatre
by Bob Dumpling
Bob Dumpling bids farewell to controversial former Health Minister, Reba Meagher
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Business & Consumerism
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Banks 1 Oct 2008
Smell the Cheese?
by Scott Mitchell
With Citibank flogging dodgy loans to cash-strapped students like Scott Mitchell, it's no wonder the big banks are floundering
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Financial Crisis 30 Sep 2008
Black Monday
by Ben Eltham
The rejection of the US$700 billion bail-out overnight was a win for democracy but a disaster for free-market capitalism, writes Ben Eltham
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Wall St Crisis 26 Sep 2008
From Bad Loans to Bailout
by Ben Eltham
The massive US Treasury intervention seems to have averted disaster for now, but how did we get here exactly? Ben Eltham looks at the problems underlying the US financial crisis
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Wall St Crisis 26 Sep 2008
Crash and Burn, Wall Street, Burn
by Bob Dumpling
Bob Dumpling has lost faith in the masters of the economic universe. It's time for an overhaul of the way we do business
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Wall St Crisis 19 Sep 2008
A Suckers Rally?
by Ben Eltham
With US stocks gaining nearly 400 points in one day, the short-term crisis in world financial markets looks to be over - for now
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Uranium 18 Sep 2008
Uranium Won't Pay the Bills
by Scott Ludlam
Colin Barnett hopes to raise billions by lifting WA's ban on uranium mining. But this dangerous policy doesn't even make economic sense, writes Senator Scott Ludlam
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Wall St Crisis 16 Sep 2008
It's Panic Time
by Ben Eltham
Wall Street's financial crisis has widened to a true panic, writes Ben Eltham. The world economy now faces its most serious threat since 1929
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Innovation 15 Sep 2008
Too Late to Be the Clever Country?
by Ben Eltham
After years of neglect under Howard and Costello, Australian innovation is way behind that of similar countries, writes Ben Eltham
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Civil Society
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Same Sex Rights 6 Oct 2008
Why Can't We Be Married?
by Rodney Croome
Same-sex marriage is still banned because Malcolm Turnbull and Kevin Rudd are afraid of the Christian Right. But they should just relax, as Rodney Croome explains
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Parental Leave 3 Oct 2008
Maternity Leave: It's About Time
by Eva Cox
Australia's long delay in setting up a proper parental leave system says a lot about the discrimination built into the policy debate, writes Eva Cox
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Family 2 Oct 2008
Take Me Out the Back and Shoot Me
by Helen Smith
The defeat of a euthanasia bill in the Victorian Parliament leaves people caring for terminally ill patients feeling as useless as tits on a bull, writes Helen Smith
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Parental Leave 1 Oct 2008
Getting To Know You
by Alan Thornhill
The new maternity leave scheme being considered by the Government would be a big change for the better, writes Alan Thornhill
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Unions 29 Sep 2008
Back To The Picket-Line
by Tom Bramble
To convince a new generation of workers that they can fight for their rights, unions need to discard failed strategies of compromise and concession, argues Tom Bramble
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Interview 25 Sep 2008
Could the Bad Old Days of Mandatory Detention Come Back?
by Alicia Sometimes
A new book tells the harrowing personal stories of life in detention - stories policy makers need to hear, according to co-author Linda Briskman, interviewed for newmatilda.com by Alicia Sometimes
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Defence 22 Sep 2008
Where Are Our External Threats?
by John Langmore
Kevin Rudd's pledge to increase military spending, with the Navy as the biggest winner, is misguided, writes John Langmore. The money would be better spent on issues that are of genuine concern to voters
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Terror Trial 17 Sep 2008
What if it Doesn't Walk Like a Duck?
by Kirk McKenzie
Going to jail for talking about terrorism? Benbrika and his associates may be mad and bad, but they've been convicted of offences that amount to little more than guilt by association, argues Kirk McKenzie
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Editorial
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Editorial 7 Oct 2008
On the Road: Introducing Our US Election Correspondents
by Newmatilda.com
We'll be covering the final weeks of the US election campaign from the ground
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Editorial 16 Sep 2008
Malcolm the Inevitable
by Brendan Phelan
The sideshow is over. With Malcolm Turnbull as leader of the Opposition, the Rudd Government is going to have to step up its performance
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Editorial 19 Aug 2008
Everybody Needs Good Neighbours
by Marni Cordell
Today Kevin Rudd will take his message to the Pacific: this time we really do want to be your friend. If that's the case, he'd be wise to drop some of the old-school rhetoric
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Editorial 14 Aug 2008
Damn, it's Hot in Here
by Newmatilda.com
A heads up from the newmatilda.com jacuzzi
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Editorial 13 Feb 2008
We Cannot Imagine That We will Fail
by Marni Cordell
It's sobering to think it was 15 years ago that Paul Keating stood in a park in Redfern and acknowledged that it was "we who did the dispossessing", writes Marni Cordell
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Editorial 15 Jan 2008
Welcome to the New-Look newmatilda.com
by Marni Cordell
newmatilda.com kicks off the new year with a brand new website.
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Editorial 23 Nov 2007
There Is a Choice
by Jose Borghino
23 November, 2007: José Borghino finds a reason for optimism in a photo and two articles by a couple of old stagers
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Editorial 8 Nov 2007
A New Model for NewMatilda.com
by Jose Borghino
9 November, 2007: José Borghino unveils the next step in NewMatilda.com's evolution
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Global Footprint
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Climate Crisis 7 Oct 2008
These Economists Are Making Me Thirsty
by Ben Eltham
Built on flawed Treasury modelling, Garnaut's final Report shows that Canberra still believes in economic models that don't work, rather than climate models that do
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Climate Change 2 Oct 2008
Turn Down the Volume On Treasury
by Geoff Davies
What would the climate change debate sound like if Treasury shut up for a while, wonders Geoff Davies
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Blogwatch 29 Sep 2008
Brave New Energy
by Newmatilda.com
Many types of renewable energy are fast becoming mainstream. Now meet some that aren't – yet
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Development 25 Sep 2008
Forget About Missy
by Flint Duxfield
Did Rudd's advisers muddle up the briefing papers? This week, the UN General Assembly will discuss the Millenium Development Goals, not the global financial crisis - or Our Missy
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Climate Change 24 Sep 2008
Rudd Backs the Wrong Horse on Coal
by Christine Milne
In his speech to the UN, Kevin Rudd will commit $100 million trying to make clean coal work, in the hope that other countries will follow suit. But his plan is useless, damaging and risky
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Climate Change 24 Sep 2008
Why "Clean Coal" Is an Oxymoron
by Ian Lowe
Professor Ian Lowe's simple guide to why coal will always be a dirty fuel
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Garnaut Report 15 Sep 2008
What is the Future Worth?
by Clive Hamilton
Are you willing to be slightly less well off for the sake of the planet? Ross Garnaut doesn't think so, writes Clive Hamilton
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Garnaut Report 9 Sep 2008
Goodbye, Murray Darling
by Ben Eltham
Garnaut's latest report makes for depressing reading, writes Ben Eltham. It now looks as though Australia will not move to significantly reduce its greenhouse gas emissions
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International Affairs
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Us Election 7 Oct 2008
Down and Out in Santa Barbara
by David Hollier and Jess Hill
As the countdown to the US election begins, Jess Hill and David Hollier set out on a roadtrip across the United States. Their mission? To talk to as many voters as they can in the next four weeks
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Us Election 7 Oct 2008
Why the French Vote Democrat
by Sam Davies
McCain stinks, Europe wants Obama, and it's mostly Bush's fault, writes Sam Davies
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Us-china Relations 3 Oct 2008
Space: The New Cold Warzone?
by Maryann Keady
China has sent a man into space and brought him back to walk the streets of Beijing. Why is the US so concerned?
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Pakistan 1 Oct 2008
Recycling Pakistan
by Tariq Ali
The social and political problems behind Pakistan's security crisis are far more complex than US policy chiefs acknowledge, and there'll be no solution until they do, writes Tariq Ali
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Israel 29 Sep 2008
Besieged From the Inside?
by Antony Loewenstein
Radical Zionists made gains under Ehud Olmert, but their actions are pushing Israel towards catastrophe. The new Prime Minister must stop the settlers, writes Antony Loewenstein
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Uk Politics 29 Sep 2008
Brown Dodges The Bullets
by David Ritter
A kiss from his wife has helped Gordon Brown fight back in the UK polls, but he has to escape blame for the financial crisis or he's finished, writes David Ritter
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Pakistan 29 Sep 2008
Rural Pakistan's Silent Victims
by Mustafa Qadri
Few protections are available to acid burn victims in rural Pakistan, writes Mustafa Qadri
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Pacific 23 Sep 2008
Balancing Trade and Aid
by Duncan Kerr
Pacific countries have a lot to gain from the kind of economic reforms Australia is advocating, writes Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Affairs, Duncan Kerr
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Media and Culture
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The Net 25 Sep 2008
Diary of a Facebook Victim
by Elmo Keep
When everything you love about life is on your Facebook page, finding your access blocked can feel like your beating heart has been ripped from your breast. Elmo Keep describes the day her world went black
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Media 11 Sep 2008
Alexander Pope, al Qaeda, and the Cucumbers
by Helen Pringle
Helen Pringle tracks recent media allegations about the prohibition of suggestively shaped vegetables in Iraq and finds all the ingredients of 21st century Orientalist fantasy
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Bloggers 4 Sep 2008
Blogging Their Way to Freedom
by Antony Loewenstein
Antony Loewenstein takes a look at the work of bloggers monitoring and resisting their authoritarian governments
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Fat Kids 3 Sep 2008
Honey, We Brainwashed the Kids
by Bob Dumpling
Hold on to your Happy Meals, folks. Bob Dumpling dishes up the real causes of childhood obesity. Hint: it's not the ads
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Media 29 Aug 2008
The Fairfax Walkout
by Ben Eltham
Recent Fairfax job cuts are the latest installment in the gripping decline and fall of the traditional media in Australia
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Interview 29 Aug 2008
Laughing with Scissors
by Helen Razer
At the Melbourne Writers' Festival Helen Razer gets charmed by controversial American author, Augusten Burroughs
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Quality Of Life 25 Aug 2008
Useless Pack of Bankers
by Ben Eltham
How much can BankWest's recent "Quality of Life Index" - cooked up by a bank intent on selling mortgages - really tell us about the way we live?
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Arts & Culture 19 Aug 2008
Why Can't We Take Criticism?
by Helen Razer
Helen Razer listens to a whingeing Pom and realises she agrees with him
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Satire
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Satire 2 Oct 2008
Maternity Leave Will Root Australia
by Ben Pobjie
Ben Pobjie is friends with many taxpayers. And he's angry they will have to foot the bill for the indolent and fertile
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Satire 25 Sep 2008
You Want More?
by Ben Pobjie
When Ben Pobjie was a boy, he would have killed to live on jam sandwiches. What's up with old people today? Why are they so ungrateful?
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Satire 18 Sep 2008
Too Hot to Handle?
by Ben Pobjie
Have the Libs made a terrible mistake? Could Turnbull's brilliant mind and advanced social skills prove too much for this young, easily over-stimulated country?
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Satire 11 Sep 2008
The States are in a State
by Ben Pobjie
"Tittie-F***king Your Mothergate" is the last straw, writes Ben Pobjie. It's time to get rid of State Governments and employ a system of micro-governance and bare-knuckle boxing
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Satire 5 Sep 2008
First They Came for Mike Carlton...
by Ben Pobjie
Ben Pobjie remembers the heady days when Fairfax was the symbol of all that was good in the world and our dreams came in broadsheet format
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Satire 28 Aug 2008
It's Raining Men, in All the Wrong Places
by Ben Pobjie
As with any drought, the man drought can be solved with a little innovation and resourcefulness, writes Ben Pobjie
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Satire 21 Aug 2008
Our Olympic Shame
by Ben Pobjie
Ben Pobjie wonders whether Michael Phelps is ready for the responsibilities of nationhood - and why the Australian team has been so piss weak at bringing home the gold
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Nsw Politics 20 Aug 2008
Morris Iemma - Still the One
by Bob Dumpling
If the NSW Government were a TV show it would have been axed already. Bob Dumpling is amazed they didn't hire all these helpful folk from Channel Nine sooner
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Fiona Katauskas lives on the bones of her arts in Sydney. She's a regular cartoonist for newmatilda.com
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