Madness and penal politics
I never met a man whom jail reformed, with one possible exception. My driving instructor,…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.
Detention without trial
The imprisonment of Cornelia Rau raises questions that go beyond our treatment of the mentally…More
Abortion, power and control
If you accept that the most important thing we do, in coldly biological terms, is…More
Making new policies
This is a challenge to other readers of New Matilda and their networks to form…More
Federal Labor – economic policy for the future
Economic policy will, as usual, be the most important policy area for Federal Labor to…More
Happy Birthday Kim Jong Il
Last Saturday Tadotoshi Akiba sent a letter to Kim Jong Il in North Korea. In…More
Valuing children's education
For some young people school is a shunting yard from which they are progressively nudged…More
On Superbowl Sunday and other public faces
I’ve long been frustrated by the unappreciated homo-eroticism of the American footballing term ‘tight end’.…More
Polar Shifts
And so our leaders have made their belated return to 2005 – and while we…More
A snapshot of critical global trends
For the first time in the history of our planet we are experiencing a human…More