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Silencing The Future: The Ethical Dilemma Of Banning Teens From Social Media

Remember that time that we locked teens out of social media, and made them all safer by silencing and disempowering them? Neither does Dr Kathryn…More

January 31, 2024

Should New Matilda Use AI In Its Writing And Research? (Spoiler Alert: Computer Says No!!!)

Special Investigations View all

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: The Siege Of Julian Assange Is A Farce

Attempts by the United States – with the help of the United Kingdom and Sweden…More

Indigenous affairs

Families Of Murdered Aboriginal Children Have Meeting With Attorney-General Delayed By Text

Cape York Traditional Owners Hit Back After Noel Pearson Labels Them ‘White Puppets’

The More Things Change: Female Black Lives Don’t Matter. If They Did, Ms Dhu Would Still Be Alive

Aboriginal Journalist Who Reports On Racial Profiling Racially Profiled On The Way To Work

The Kakadu Charter Which Helped Stop A Uranium Mine Marks 15 Years Of Shared Values

New Matilda Is Fundraising To Employ An Aboriginal Cadet

Troubled Waters: Locals Fear Mysterious Tiwi Islands Port Is Being Eyed Off By The United States Military

Adam Goodes: Why Blackfella Spectacles Shouldn’t Make Spectacles of Themselves

Kids In Far Away Walgett Need Your Help For Spectacular Dream About The Big Wide World

Basic Income A No-Brainer For Remote Indigenous Australia

Bright Spark, Black Day: The Political Obituary Of The Prime Minister For Indigenous Affairs

Australia, You’re Standing In It: Another Day, Another Week Of Breathtaking Aussie Racism

There’s Nothing Funny About The Destruction Of Small Island Nations

Federal Probe Into Mysterious Port Expansion Brings Tiwi Forestry To The Brink Of Collapse

Tony Abbott Hails Noel Pearson’s Impact On Cape York School, Which Pearson Has Nothing To Do With

Australian Politics

High Farce: The Turnbull Government’s Centrelink ‘Robo-Debt’ Debacle Continues To Grow

MYEFO: Here Lies Malcolm Turnbull’s ‘Jobs And Growth’ Mantra

MYFEO: It’s The Weak Economy, Stupid… And Yet Everyone’s Talking About The Deficit

The Great Wall Of Malcolm: Another Chink In Democracy’s Armour

Democracy Inaction: Two Major Parties, One Major Train Wreck

Another Malcolm Turnbull Annus Horriblis, Crammed Into A Single Week

The Stephen Conroys Of The World Harm Democracy More Than Any Refugee Protest

No Dollars, No Sense: A Government Beholden To ‘Economic Morons’

Raise the Floor to Smash the Ceiling

A Badly Wounded Government Limps To The Long Summer Break

Jews United: Pauline Hanson And Malcolm Roberts Sent Packing

49 Politicians Supporting Palestine Shows Change Is Coming To Parliament

Barnaby Joyce Is The Self-Serving Face Of Everything Wrong With Politics

How To Be Hateful And Idiotic And Remain In The Turnbull Ministry

Cash For Contacts: Larissa Waters Calls For End To Secret Meetings, Sweetheart Political Deals

International Affairs View all

An Open Letter To Israel: They Sail In Peace

By the time you read this, I’ll be sailing on an old, converted fishing trawler from Sicily, Italy headed for…More

Environment

La Trobe University Commits To Full Fossil Fuel Divestment

Labor Promises To Extend ‘Water Trigger’ To Shale And Tight Seam Gas

Whitehaven Coal Eyeing Off Expansion Of Controversial Maules Creek

Call To End Special Treatment For The Logging Industry

Scientists: Act This Election, Or The Reef Is Doomed

Plumbing New Depths, Climate Activists Target Tony Abbott

Bob Brown Protest Charge Dropped

Poll: Punters Are Looking For Stronger Environment Policies

Down The Radioactive Rabbit Hole: Questions Keep Mounting

The Solomon Islands Have Already Lost Five Atolls To Climate Change

The Importance Of Getting Emotional About Climate Change And The Reef

EXPLAINER: Adani Big Coal Case Could Make It Harder To Get Mines Approved

Leaked Review Urges UNSW To Come Clean On ‘Ethical Investment’ Policy

Submarines And Power Stations: Only One Of Them Is Useful In Climate Change Battle

$7.7 Billion Fossil Fuel Subsidies ‘Like Being In Bed With Big Tobacco’

Civil Society View all

Good Morning Prime Minister, From Kangaroo Island

I woke this morning, on a property on Kangaroo Island, with a group of residents who have spent days fighting…More

Media & Culture

Palestinian Playwright Falsely Accused Of Anti-Semitism Wins Victorian Drama Awards

The Road To Old Media Oblivion Is Paved With Insular Intent

Murdoch And The ABC Need Each Other, And We Need Both More Than Ever

Emails Show Clinton Foundation Funders Also Bankroll ISIS: The Explosive Julian Assange Interview With John Pilger

Bugger The Journalism: The Slow Death Of Critical Thinking In Australia

Vanessa de Largie’s Very Public Flogging For Wanting Kim Kardashian To Die… Which Wasn’t Even True To Begin With

Online Hate Prevention Institute Responds to Michael Brull

Pro-Israel Group Responds To ‘Misdirected Anti-Semitism’ Criticism By Labelling Jewish Author Anti-Semitic

The Pro-Israel Agenda Of The Online Hate Prevention Institute

Gay Abandon: News Corp Embraces Double Standards On Religious Homophobia

The Media: John Pilger On Baying For Blood And Nuclear War

What Reading New Matilda Says About You

Asylum Seekers View all

We Should Be Accepting Refugees For Their Humanity, Not Their Literacy

Last week’s comments by Peter Dutton that ‘illiterate’ refugees will take Australian jobs misses the…More

It’s Okay To Compare Australia In 2016 With Nazi Germany, And Here’s Why

Bad things happens when good people stay silent. Dr David Berger is speaking out. Above is…More

ALP Candidate Backs Offshore Concentration Camps ‘For The Greater Good’

After speaking out against Australia’s ‘concentration camps’, the candidate was forced to back away from…More

Refugees Are Not Your Trolley Problem

One of the oldest philosophical quandaries has a great deal of resonance when it comes…More

Business & Consumerism View all

Africa Down Under: Tales Of Australian Woe On The ‘Dark Continent’

A mining conference underway in Perth states its aim is to help boost the fortunes of one of the poorest…More

Education View all

Feds Weigh In To Macquarie University Legal Dispute

A protracted dispute between a student representative organisation and major Australian university has drawn the attention of Federal MPs, just…More

Workers' Rights View all

The ABCC Of The CFMEU-MUA Union Merger

Two of the most aggressive unions are considering uniting as the Turnbull government pushes on with Abbott’s anti-union measures, writes…More

Should New Matilda Use AI In Its Writing And Research? (Spoiler Alert: Computer Says No!!!)

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