New Matilda

Green With Admiration: Helen Razer Laments The Loss Of Senator Lee Rhiannon

This week, Lee Rhiannon declared her intention to retire as a Greens senator. This weekend, I declare my intention to pretend this never happened. Of…More

0 The Fear Of A ‘Rape Capital’: What Can We Learn From Asifa Bano?
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Jazz Icon Showed Lewd Images To Students, But Denies James Morrison Academy Claims His Teaching Role Was Ever Restricted

Jazz Icon Showed Lewd Images To Students, But Denies James Morrison Academy Claims His Teaching Role Was Ever Restricted

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Antony Loewenstein: The Independent Australian Journalist Everyone Should Follow

If you’re wondering who to trust in a world of ‘fake news’ and corporate media,…More

Aboriginal Affairs

A New Low: Channel 9 ‘Does A Sunrise’ On $30m Palm Island Uprising Payout

How To Trigger A Flood Of Right-Wing Troll Tears: Mention #changethedate

Yolŋu Leader Gives Prince Charles A Treaty Letter Stick… And A Diplomatic ‘Middle Finger’

Justice Reinvestment Key To Reducing Indigenous Incarceration: Tom Calma

How The Gap Widened, And How To ‘Refresh’ The Policy Approach For Remote Indigenous Australia

Made In Indonesia: ‘Aboriginal Art’ Company Lands In Federal Court Over Alleged Misleading Conduct

Writer, Actor Steven Oliver Heads New Anti-Suicide Campaign

BEHIND BARS PART 5: Australia’s Shocking Cruelty To Aboriginal People With Disabilities: The Need For Large-Scale Change

BEHIND BARS PART 4: Australia’s Shocking Cruelty To Aboriginal People With Disabilities: Overcrowding, No Medical Treatment, No Accessibility

BEHIND BARS PART 3: Australia’s shocking cruelty to Aboriginal people with disabilities: Solitary confinement

BEHIND BARS PART 2: Australia’s Shocking Cruelty To Aboriginal People With Disabilities; In Their Own Words

BEHIND BARS PART 1: Australia’s Shocking Cruelty To Aboriginal People With Disabilities

A Question For Anthony Mundine: Am I Not Your People?

Apartheid State: Compensation For Sexual Abuse Victims, Betrayal For Stolen Generations

Kite Flying With Flags: Luke Foley Gives With One Hand, Middle Fingers With The Other

Australian Politics

New Matilda’s Response To Brian Walters QC on Cate Faehrmann

Greens Lawyer Weighs In On New Matilda reporting On Cate Faehrmann

Budget 2018: Panicked And Providing Privileges For The Already Privileged

The Stone-Hard Sell: A Play By Monty Fish

Base Politics: A Clever Budget For Electoral Fortunes, And Full Of Missed Opportunities

2018 Budget Speech Transcript By Treasurer Scott Morrison

If The Greens Want Credibility on Gender Issues, The Response To Misbehaviour Can’t Be To Attack Women

Jeremy Buckingham’s Brain Explosion: Careful What You Wish For, Lefties

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE: ‘Rik Mayall’ Style Photo Bomb Goes Horribly Wrong, Claims NSW Greens MP Jeremy Buckingham

Bad Blood: Cate Faehrmann And The Battle For The NSW Greens, Part 3

Public Mischief: Cate Faehrmann And The Battle For The NSW Greens, Part 2

Courting Controversy: Cate Faehrmann And The Battle For The NSW Greens, Part 1

Malcolm Turnbull’s Manufactured Nightmares, Inside Peter Dutton’s Iron Cage

The Batman By-Election: Labor Surges, Deflated Greens Have Some Serious Work Ahead

Three Newspolls To Midnight: A Dangerous Exercise In Pub-Test Populism.

International Affairs View all

Australia’s Shameful Complicity With Israeli Atrocities, And The Media’s Determination To Cover It Up

Move along, nothing to see here… except for more than 100 unarmed protestors shot dead by Israeli snipers and thousands…More

Environment

Flooded Valleys And Burning Forests, The Global Face Of Renewable Energy (Part II)

Engineering Firm’s Withdrawal From Adani Coal Project Should Be ‘Final Nail In The Coffin’, Says Greenpeace

Flooded Valleys And Burning Forests, The Global Face Of Renewable Energy (Part I)

Climate Change? What Climate Change: The 2018 Budget

April 2018 Australia’s Hottest On Record Courtesy Of “Exceptional Heat”

Earth Day: Why Corporates Can’t Save The Planet

Going Green: Watermelon Is Delicious, Desirable And An Embraceable State Of Being!

The Price Of Protest: Choosing Between Forests Or Freedom

The Left Doesn’t Own Green Values

Making Water From Whine: The Murray Darling Basin’s Magic Numbers Machine

Stone Coal Crazy: Seismic Testing Off The Australian Coastline

Democracy Zindabad! A Day In The Life Of Anti-Coal Resistance In India’s Energy Capital

Buying Time To Beat Adani

The Numbers Don’t Stack Up: W&J’s Rights on the Chopping Block for Adani’s ‘Non Viable’ Project

Our Learned Academies Weigh In On Batteries

Civil Society View all

The Beauty Myth 3.0

If you want to be ‘beautiful’ by today’s beauty industry standards, you’d better be prepared to part with some cash,…More

Media & Culture

The Guardian Is A Lapdog To Power. Theresa May Thinks It’s 1984. And Other Reasons I Write For New Matilda

Brave New World: #NappyConsent Woman Deanne Carson On What She Meant, And Why She So Passionately Believes It

Prosecutors Seek Complete Ban On Media Reporting Of Cardinal George Pell Trial

Deanne Carson Has Pink Hair. How Dare She Advocate For Consent!

Pyrrhic Victory: Judge Rules For Channel 7 But Sympathises With Amber Harrison

Helen Razer On #MAYhem, And Loving New Matilda

Rushing To Judgement: The Daily Telegraph Versus Geoffrey Rush, Explained

Cambridge Analytica Part 2: The Lessons We Need To Learn About Social Media And Propaganda

Cambridge Analytica Part 1: They ‘Got Trump Elected’, We Should Worry About What Else They’ve Done

Free Your Mind, And Your Time: Step Away From Social Media

Beautiful One Day, Wordy The Next: $2k Award For Qld’s Next Great Young Writer

The Canberra Times’ Big Stoush: Read All About It (From One Perspective)

Asylum Seekers View all

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Australia’s Real South African Disgrace Has Nothing To Do With Cricket

Australia is good at sports, and double standards, writes Nicolle White. The fall out from…More

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Our Border Protection Spin Isn’t Fooling The World, UN Docs Reveal

The international community is not fooled by Australia’s human rights offending immigration policies, writes Kellie…More

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Your Silence On Manus And Nauru Is Your Complicity

What Australia has done to people seeking asylum is the responsibility of all Australians, writes…More

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Manus Island: Those For Whom We Cannot Grieve

As a nation, overcoming our fear of ‘the other’ and exposing our own vulnerabilities is…More

Business & Consumerism View all

Morrison’s Tax Cuts Explained: Baby Boomers vs Millennials And Well Off vs Battlers

The government’s proposed income tax cuts carefully target the well-off. Not the very rich, but the next cohort down –…More

Education View all

University Paradoxes: A Decent Degree And No Job; A Job And No Degree Of Decency

Every first-year Philosophy undergraduate learns how to recognise a paradox, and there are two basic types. The first is a…More

Workers' Rights View all

Union Boss Sally McManus Demands Inquiry After Building Royal Commission Charges Collapse

The nation’s most powerful union official has demanded an inquiry into why two union officials were charged with blackmail after…More