Editorial
Welcome back to the first ‘live’ issue of New Matilda for 2007. We hope you…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 Lynching of Saddam Hussein
We’ve shut him up. The moment Saddam’s hooded executioner pulled the lever of the trapdoor…More
Next Big Things for 2007
Thank God it’s a new year! I was beginning to get exhausted from all the…More
Trouble in the Highlands
A humanitarian crisis is emerging in the Punjak Jaya region of West Papua. Local human…More
Palm Island Ignites
That Governments ensure that standing instructions to the officers of (police services) specify that each…More
A Dirty Word
Nothing gets the middle-class Left into more of a froth than the label elite. In…More
Is Don, Is Good
David Williamson’s Don’s Party is older than I am. First performed by the legendary Australian…More
Serious About Games
Imagine building a world where you can tackle a global health epidemic; or pulverise the…More
On the Sikh Trail
It was January 1996 and I was driving to Sydney from Queensland with four boofy…More
Sharing Responsibility
I’ve been an environmental campaigner for many years and have long had reservations about the…More