As bad as it gets? Don't count on it.
The cases of Cornelia Rau and Vivian Alvarez both give an unsettling insight into the…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.
Time for a global Enlightenment
Facts are irrelevant in a catharsis. Though it is perfectly clear that Newsweek’s 9 May…More
Chin up cobbers, don't you worry about that
On 10 May, the Secretary of the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department, Robert Cornall, gave a now…More
Healing, Reconciliation and Justice
Over the last two-hundred odd years, Aboriginal people in this country have been shot at,…More
Independence and the Pacific
After a solid month of rain in Port Vila, great sodden cavities open up in…More
The other side of the story
Several weeks ago, Melbourne man Liam Magill — under the watchful eye of the media…More
A mini-constitutional crisis in Bush's America
Towards the end of the tragic life of Terri Schiavo, the Republican Leader of the…More
Three cheers for western cultural imperialism
Last week, the ABC 7.30 Report carried a story about Talaal Adree, a Kuwaiti born,…More
Suspicion and Fear
During and before World War I (1914-18), Great Britain (as it was called then) was…More
Responding to migrants at risk
When Australian immigration authorities come across a victim of human trafficking enslaved in a brothel,…More