The Bastard No-one Would Claim
The love-child Howard was never prepared to acknowledge in his budgets will finally find its…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.
Building an Empire
The Commissioner of the AFP, Mick Keelty, revealed much about himself in his anti-press speech…More
An Innocent Man Would be in Jail
This is an extract from a speech given at newmatilda.com’s launch party on 6 February.…More
The Whole Sorry Business
Coalition MPs are now talking about removing (forcibly, if possible) the phrase "Stolen Generations" from…More
Jihad Sheilas or Media Martyrs?
Muslim women are both highly visible members of one of the most marginalised groups in…More
Super Duper, But Nothing Is Clear
The polls closed in California an hour ago. With results in from several Eastern states,…More
Who Will be the Next GG?
Who should be Australia’s next Governor-General? Who has the ideal combination of brains, courage, work…More
All-American Democracy
The former president of Tanzania, Julius Nyerere, once asked, "Why haven’t we all got a…More
An Accidental War
The 2006 Lebanon war was the first battle in Israel’s history that it comprehensively lost.…More
Hillary the Nutcracker
Like a lot of Australians, I spent January in a house by the beach. One…More