Refugee & Asylum Seekers Festival 2005
Dazzling music and dance performances from Melbourne’s refugee communities, a unique cultural marketplace, the inaugural…More
Browsing: Australian Politics
This week
Watching the chic and smiling Madame Fu Ling respond to the gentle probing of Lateline’s…More
A Human Rights Act for Australia
An Australian Human Rights Act cannot be put off any longer. New Matilda readers are…More
Fiords, feminism and successful nation-building
New Zealand is less Middle Earth than the Land that Slartibartfast built. The planet designer…More
A sinking ship
What a fool Kim Beazley is. He has been presented with probably his best ever…More
Two Noes to Europe
It is a pity that Australian history is so little known to the rest of…More
No one ever told me
Eighteen years ago, my husband won a trip for two to Bedarra Island off Queensland’s…More
Thinking again about the common wealth
It seems that in recent weeks politicians and the media have discovered something that has…More
Reformist Parties
Robert F Kennedy Jr (the son of Bobby Kennedy, who was assassinated in Los Angeles…More
Changing the Rules of the Game
Sometimes changes in policy are trumpeted in press conferences, and even debated in parliament. Others…More