Brainless on the Potomac
Stephen Colbert plays Bill O’Reilly on TV. Day after day, Colbert parodies, mocks and otherwise…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.
Thoughts From An Unlikely Switch-Off Activist
The IT industry loves my family. We’re the kind of folk it refers to as…More
Children of the Enlightenment
The Western world is considered by many observers as being in a catastrophic state of…More
Holding a Moral Compass
Forty years ago, 90 per cent of voters in the 1967 referendum gave very clear…More
Do We Really Need a Police Force?
In anticipation of the installation in September of Andrew Scipione as the new NSW Police…More
A Sub-Prime Morality Play
Global financial markets went pear-shaped last week. They do that from time to time. The…More
The Greenhouse Mafia
Last month I wrote about author and former Howard Government adviser Dr Guy Pearse’s take…More
Special Treatment
The rights and revenue that were supposed to flow from West Papua’s Special Autonomy Law…More
The War on Democracy
I walked with Roberto Navarrete, a Chilean exile who has lived in the UK for…More
A New Leader All Over Again?
There is an old saying (or joke, if you like) that the only politicians in…More