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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.
Quick Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions is Possible, and Urgent
Reducing our emissions of greenhouse-inducing gases is both more feasible and more urgent than is…More
be alert (and alarmed)
Family First represents no serious incursion into Australian politics, as Graham Willett points out (New…More
The ideology of religion
‘Fundamentalism has replaced communism to become the new spectre haunting Western consciousness,’ British academic Stuart…More
Kitten torture and other crimes
Last Friday evening in Sydney Channel Seven led its evening news bulletin with the story…More
Democracy and other necessary illusions
‘Compassion is an unstable emotion,’ wrote Susan Sontag in Regarding the Pain of Others. ‘It…More
Stop laughing – this is serious
It was a bugger of a start to the new year: my Dad in hospital…More
A day of reflection
As I write this, Australia is sharing a day of organised reflection, at the command…More
Why Australia should not sign the Kyoto protocol
With Russia having recently ratified the Kyoto protocol it will come into action on 16…More
Iraq's fraudulent elections
‘I look at the elections as … a historical marker for our Iraq policy.’ George…More