a starguide for skeptics and cynics
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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.
Toeing the Line on Timor
This week The Australian published an opinion piece by Mark Aarons attacking journalist John Martinkus,…More
Howard the Un-Australian
Enough already! It’s time the Labor Party took John Howard’s incantations and shoved them down…More
The Cult of Cruelty
In the week that George W Bush took to fantasising that his blood-soaked ‘war on…More
Peter Don't Preach
Last Saturday, from the pulpit of the nation’s capital, Peter Costello was prepared to pontificate…More
Native Title in the Wild West
Last week in the Federal Court, Justice Murray Wilcox found that Perth’s Noongar people had…More
Traditional Violence and Bullsh*t Law
A lot has been written about Aboriginal violence since Northern Territory Crown Prosecutor, Nanette Rogers’s…More
Tangled Webs
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare made waves in the region two weeks ago when…More
Another Day, Another Bloodless Coup
Tanks roll into the capital through a dark monsoonal downpour, taking up position around Government…More
Paki-Bashing from Bradford to Bankstown
Near Broome in 1975, I met a very tall, dark man who looked after the…More