Politics and community-building online
Devastating national defeats in the past two months demonstrate that parties of the centre-left in…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 politics of despair
The people of a tiny, poor and impossibly remote Aboriginal community in the East Kimberley…More
Double-dealing
‘Hygiene pact in deal for blacks,’ the Age told us last week. ‘Aborigines told to…More
The Deputy Sheriff shoots himself in the foot
Winston Churchill once nastily remarked that the problem with the Germans was that ‘they’re either…More
A glimmer of optimism
The Chanukah candles have been doused and the Christmas ones lit. Now we can have…More
truth, morality and policitics
‘Moralists’ – that is what Paul Kelly, political journalist and Editor-at-Large of the Australian, called…More
The King's Peace in PNG
Alexander Downer, Foreign Minister, Australia: The reason some countries are poorer than others is in…More
Smart casual
Australia’s workforce may be in a process of progressive casualisation, but you wouldn’t know it…More
Santa and the life business
Last year, Santa was a very thin Vietnamese guy. It was 42 degrees in the…More
All mosquitos, no swamp; no elephants either
The conference in early December on ‘Al Qaeda 2.0: Transnational Terrorism After 9/11’, sponsored by…More