Mental Health Care Unshackled
In June, a report on the appalling conditions in which mental health patients are held…More
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Launched in 2004, New Matilda is one of Australia's oldest online independent publications. It's focus is on investigative journalism and analysis, with occasional smart arsery thrown in for reasons of sanity. New Matilda is owned and edited by Walkley Award and Human Rights Award winning journalist Chris Graham.
NSW Gets It Wrong On Solar
Yesterday the NSW Government announced dramatic changes to the Solar Bonus Scheme. The payment rate…More
The End Of AIDS?
In 2009, a team of World Health Organisation (WHO) scientists published a study in the…More
Please Form An Orderly Queue
When Wikileaks published the Iraq War Diaries last Friday, they opened almost 400000 windows onto…More
Help Keep New Matilda Alive
IF YOU WANT TO SIGN UP AS A NEW MATILDA SUPPORTER, visit newmatilda.fundbreak.com.au, click SUPPORT…More
A Kinder, Gentler Polity?
The suggestion that the new Parliament, with its minority Labor government, will represent a "new…More
And Now To Rescue Chile
Just a few hours after the 14 October rescue of the Chilean miners trapped in…More
What The Auditor Couldn't See
Earlier this month the Commonwealth Government Auditor (ANAO) released its report (pdf) on the Home…More
Can Darwin Handle The Grog?
Darwin is the broken jaw capital of the world. In an interview earlier this year,…More
Australia Jumps The Queue In East Timor
Last week Australia’s Immigration Minister, Chris Bowen, was in Dili to lobby for a refugee…More