A Permit to Pollute
Professor Ross Garnaut has finally handed down his draft report, and it leaves much to…More
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New Matilda
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.
The Perils of Playing Nice
Global warming is an emergency, and "for emergency situations we need emergency action," UN secretary-general…More
Sandy Heads for the Hills
It is, indeed, the end of a vaguely memorable and ill-defined era. Australian public life…More
No Riots, We're Soccer Fans
Hate to tell ya, Samuel Huntington, but there ain’t no clash of civilizations in Europe,…More
Stitches, Shame and Sleepless Nights
There is a stunned look on the face of the first-time mother. We noticed it…More
Battle of the Brainwashed
During the Harvard University sponsored Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2008 in Budapest last week,…More
Keysar Wants a Wife
It’s late 1995. I’m sitting in my office in a small law firm in suburban…More
Free Blakey My Fella
Little did I know that my monochrome ghutra, as worn by Yasser, would be huge…More
Swings, Roundabouts and Pigs' Heads
Saturday’s by-election in Gippsland delivered Labor a sobering 9.3 per cent slump on the primary…More
Tasmania's High Water Mark
On 3 February 1983, in an attempt to catch the Labor Party off guard, Malcolm…More