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The Tip Of An Iceberg: Engineered Indifference, Systematic Dehumanisation

Bureaucracies the world over have in-built cruelties, something which Palestinians in particular know all about, writes Professor Stuart Rees. The humiliation experienced by the citizens…More

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Scott Ludlam On The War On Yemen, The Need For An Arms Embargo, And The Greens Earlier Silence
0 Glen Anderson
It’s In Everyone’s Interest To Tackle Australia’s Housing Affordability Crisis

WATCH: So, A Priest, A Rabbi And A Gay Black Atheist Sit Down To Smoke Weed… No Joke

New Matilda - March 17, 2017

WATCH: So, A Priest, A Rabbi And A Gay Black Atheist Sit Down To Smoke Weed… No Joke

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Aboriginal Affairs View all

Banjo Morton, an Ampilatwatja elder bordering the Utopia homelands. (IMAGE: Chris Graham)

0 Rachel Siewert

Cashless Cards And Rising Crime: An Intervention That Keeps On Giving

Facing electoral annihilation and media pressure, the Howard Government launched an unprecedented assault on Aboriginal…More

Special Investigations

Lethal Lies: How A Corporate Spy For A Kazakhstan Company Infiltrated The Global Anti-Asbestos Network

False Balance: Move Along, Nothing To See Here Says ABC Chief

Senator Calls For Inquiry Into Nick Ross Affair And ABC’s “Hit Piece” On Labor’s NBN

FALSE BALANCE: Labor Hunts Turnbull Over Secret Nick Ross Tapes And ABC’s ‘Pro-Coalition Bias’

FALSE BALANCE: The ABC in Glass Houses… With Secret Tape Recordings

FALSE BALANCE: Labor Demands Answers From ABC’s Mark Scott Over Nick Ross Secret Tape Revelations

FALSE BALANCE: Nick Ross, Bruce Belsham And The ABC: The Story So Far

FALSE BALANCE: The Ifs, Buts And Maybes Of The ABC Belsham-Ross Story

FALSE BALANCE: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil… The Debate The ABC Has To Have

FALSE BALANCE: The Full Transcript Of The Meeting Between Nick Ross And Bruce Belsham

FALSE BALANCE: ABC coverage of the NBN since September 2013

FALSE BALANCE: ABC Directed Journalist To Target Labor NBN Plan For “Insurance” Against Coalition Attacks

Australian Politics

A Social Wage: The Greens Have Worked It Out, So Why Hasn’t Labor?

A Watermelon And Proud Of It? On Richard Di Natale’s Press Club Speech

How Australia’s Most Under-Appreciated Asset Protects Us All Against A ‘Trump In The Lodge’

Jay Weatherill Just Turned Out The Lights On Conservative Energy ‘Policy’

Empty Vessels Make No Sound, So Why Is Malcolm Turnbull Still Talking?

Be Alert And Very Alarmed At Government Plan To Create A Department For Homeland Security

How To Get Alan Tudge To Notice You Without Even Really Trying (Criticize Centrelink, He’ll Pull Your File)

The Politics of the Extreme, Abroad And At Home

Centrelink Sinks To A New Low In Growing Debt Fiasco

Logic Meltdown: Turnbull Government Won’t Participate In Negotiations To Ban Nuclear Weapons

If Dominic Perrottet Wants To Represent My Generation, He’s Got His Priorities Wrong

Power Games: Unlike Mr Trumble, The Truth Is Somewhere In The Middle

Power Politics: Too Much Energy, In All The Wrong Places

Cory Bernardi Crashes His Own Party, Exits, Stage Far Right

Malcolm Is Not So In The Middle When It Comes To The Trans Pacific Partnership

Environment View all

Batteries

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Jay And Malcolm’s Big Swinging Battery Face Off

Gas is not the answer, nor batteries nor hydro, writes Geoff Russell. South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill recently announced a…More

International Affairs

The War In Yemen Is Turning To Genocide, And Australia Is Quietly Supporting It

Warren Mundine Swallows Pro-Israel Propaganda, Then Spews It Back Up For Fin Review: Part 2

Warren Mundine Swallows Pro-Israel Propaganda, Then Spews It Back Up For Fin Review: Part I

Business As Usual: Even With Trump, America Is Still Our China Plate

It’s Not McCarthyism, Stupid

Donald Trump’s Congress Speech Success Has Made Him Even More Dangerous

The Yemen Slaughter: Why Donald Trump’s Speech To Congress Was The Farthest Thing From Presidential

Giving Comfort To The War Criminals: Benjamin Netanyahu’s Visit To Australia Shames Us All

Why I’m Happy To Live In A Trump Ruled World

The Fightback: Trumpism Gives Rise To The New Dissidents

Friends Don’t Let Friends Slaughter Innocents And Oppress Millions

Julie Bishop Has Not Changed Australia’s Position On The South China Sea

Understanding Trump: Two Cartoons

Disbelief Over Palestine: Cowardice, Cruelty And Netanyahu

The First Lesson Of Trump’s America For Australia: Take The Far-Right Seriously

Civil Society View all

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, on election night 2016.

0 john.tons@flinders.edu.au

Shared Values? The Thick Rhetoric Of Malcolm’s Multicultural Statement

The Prime Minister’s foray into shared values and a united Australia sounds good at first blush. But it fails the ‘Rawls’…More

Media & Culture

RIP Bill Leak… You Boring Racist Who Ran With The Pack And Upheld Every Murdoch Orthodoxy

It’s Official: One Year On, Aboriginal Women Performing Ceremony Is Still Offensive

Facebook Invites New Matilda To ‘Share Memory’ That Got Us Banned… From Facebook

One Path Network Exposes Today Tonight’s Despicable Anti-Muslim Fraud

And THIS Is Why They Call Us Vultures

A Message For The Media: Start Putting Public Interest Ahead Of Propaganda

Why We Should All Watch A Bit Of Crap TV

Donald Trump Supporters Are Playing With Nationalistic Fire: Welcome To The Age Of Unreason

Inglourious Basterds

Rage Against The Algorithm: The Rise And Rise Of Social Media

Palestinian Playwright Falsely Accused Of Anti-Semitism Wins Victorian Drama Awards

The Road To Old Media Oblivion Is Paved With Insular Intent

Asylum Seekers View all

Asylum seekers on Nauru protest their indefinite incarceration.

Pamela Curr
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International Women’s Day: Something To Celebrate, Unless You’re In Immigration Detention

Another International Women’s Day has rolled around. There will be breakfasts and gatherings as women…More

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Max Chalmers
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Peter Dutton Confirms It: The US Refugee Deal Is Founded On Prejudice

It’s not often you get to say this but the Minister for Immigration did a…More

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Michael Brull
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There Is A Fresh Asylum Seeker Crisis In Australia, And We Need To Act Now

The Turnbull government is once again targeting asylum seekers, this time those already living in…More

Minister for Immigration, Peter Dutton.

Michael Brull and Duncan Fine
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EXPLAINER: Why Peter Dutton Already Has The Power To Enforce A Trump Muslim Ban

Donald Trump has hit a legal roadblock in his bid to ban Muslims from entering…More

Business & Consumerism View all

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0 Warwick Smith

‘When I Was Your Age, We Used A Thing Called Cash’: And Other Ways to Fight Back Against The Banks

The banks are making a killing every time you swipe your card. Warwick Smith thinks that should motivate you to…More

Education View all

American president Donald Trump. (IMAGE: Gage Skidmore, Flickr)

0 Dr Christopher Peterson

A Higher Yearning For A Sterner Tertiary Response To Trump

An academic boycott of the United States is warranted, writes Dr Christopher Peterson. But the Australian tertiary sector’s response so far…More

Workers' Rights View all

New leader of the ACTU, Sally McManus, pictured on ABC's 7:30 this week.

A Fiery Defence Of Sally McManus: Thank Civil Disobedience For The Gains Of Today

Australia still see itself as the ‘land of the fair go’. We didn’t get here by following all the rules,…More