What About the Digital Agenda?
The Australia 2020 Summit brought people from the heights and the streets together to meet…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.
Opening up the ABC
ABC Managing Director Mark Scott’s wishlist of six digital channels by 2020 is to be…More
Bingeing Youths are not the Issue
I’m thinking many years back now. It’s my post-HSC muck-up day, and the Year 12…More
Same Old Song and Dance
Can governments create creativity? Is cultural expression, or even great art, something that can be…More
Keep it Simple, Stupid
What kind of country do we want to live in by the year 2020? That…More
Mr Percival is Dead
A recent re-watching of the film Storm Boy (and a subsequent re-reading of my own…More
Computer Says No
It’s not breaking the Official Secrets Act to reveal that governments love national security pretexts.…More
Brough the Builder
To the chagrin of some and the glee of others, talk of Mal Brough making…More
No, YOUR Government Sucks
Arriving back in China recently after two weeks in Australia was a little like diving…More
What, Me Bitter?
It’s difficult to underestimate the enduring impact of Barack Obama’s "bitter" remark about America’s working…More