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Killing Country (Part 5): Native Title Colonialism, Racism And Mining For Manufactured Consent

In the final of a five-part series on the battle by the Wangan and Jagalingou people of Central Queensland to halt the construction of the Carmichael coal mine…More

Redating Australia Day

Dean Frenkel - January 26, 2018

Redating Australia Day

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Special Investigations View all

Sydney Barrister Charles Waterstreet, who is facing serious allegations of sexual harassment.

0 Nina Funnell & Chris Graham

Criminal Barrister Charles Waterstreet Lied About Porn Video Played To Young Jobseeker

If you’re going to serve the Australian courts as a criminal barrister, professional standards dictate…More

Aboriginal Affairs

Common Ground: Steven Oliver On Changing The Date Of Australia Day

SAD Mark Latham Predicts Free Sausages For All In Stunning Save Australia Day Ad

Sol Bellear AM To Be Laid To Rest Saturday At State Funeral In Redfern

Lessons From The Past, A Culture For The Future

Killing Ground: An Aussie Horror Film That May Scare Us Into Breaking The Silence

To Close The Gap, Australia Must Address The ‘Coloniser In The Room’

Uluru ‘Statement From The Heart’ Lacks Real Teeth And Reality

Best Intentions: How We Slaughter The Aboriginal Race

The Debilitating Aftermath Of 10 Years Of NT Intervention

The Killing Fields: How We Failed Elijah Doughty, And Countless Others

THE POISONED CHALICE: Breakthrough WA Study Shines A Light On Global Water Contamination

A Decade On, The Fraud Of The NT Intervention Is Exposed

Bad Aunty: 10 Years On, How ABC Lateline Sparked The Racist NT Intervention (With Introduction By John Pilger)

After Mabo: Koiki’s Vision For A New Great Society

Amy McQuire On Token Recognition, And Sam Thaiday’s Misogyny

Australian Politics

The Gang In Blue Is The Real Menace In Melbourne

Change The Date: Tony Abbott Finally Rejects A Three-Word Slogan

Unmasking Malcolm: The Big 5 Policy Failures of 2017

Sam Slammed, But Not By A Federal Anti-Corruption Watchdog, Notably

An Ivory Tower Plan To Build Ivory Tower Stadiums For The Big End Of Town

Why The Queensland Election Matters On The National Stage

VIDEO: Malcolm Turnbull’s Joint Party Room, If It Were A Pet Show

Citizenship Chaos Could Be Terminal For Turnbull

Cold, Hard (Michaelia) Cash Lies To Parliament And The People

Green Without (Class) Envy: Richard Di Natale’s Disappointingly Neoliberal Messaging

Adani’s Coal Mine Is A Symptom Of The Crisis In Australian Politics

End Of An Error: The Days Of Danby-ism Look Done

If You Think The Turnbull Government Is Populist, Then You Don’t Understand Populism

Please Explainer: A Brief Punter’s Guide To How Malcolm Roberts Tried To Renounce His British Citizenship

Is Tony Abbott Lying About Getting Head-butted For Marriage Equality?

International Affairs View all

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

0 Stephen Keim and Luke Craske

Donald Trump Is A Symptom Of A Greater Evil: The Rotten Core Of The Republican Party

There is a disease at the heart of the GOP, and its name is not Donald Trump. Despite Trump’s inadequacies,…More

Environment

Buying Time To Beat Adani

The Numbers Don’t Stack Up: W&J’s Rights on the Chopping Block for Adani’s ‘Non Viable’ Project

Our Learned Academies Weigh In On Batteries

Campbell Newman Joins ‘Coal Is Good For Humanity Club’ With Predictable Results

Bin Chickens: The Sadder Side Of Guardian’s ‘Almost Bird Of The Year’

Traditional Owners Expose Adani’s Relentless Pursuit of W&J Country

The Queensland Government Is The Real Driver In Adani’s Dirty Land Grab

The Adani Carmichael Coal Mine: Introduction To A Special Five-Part Series

Climate Clock Ticking: It’s Time BHP Stopped Funding Deniers, Says Bill McKibben

Nuclear Power’s Existential Crisis

Emission Omission: We Can’t Eat The #BeInconvenient Elephant In Al Gore’s Room

Greens At A Fork In The Road; Evidence-Based Decisions Or Mob Rule?

Can Carmichael? No Brainer, But How 4 Corners Got There Is Wrong

Power Games: Tony Abbott Finally Cleans Up With Australia’s New Energy Policy

It’s The Habitat Destruction, Stupid

Civil Society View all

Free-speech

0 Dominic Keenan

All Speech Is Created Equal But Some Speech Is More Equal Than Others

If you think the right to free speech in Australia is equal, you’d be wrong. And if you think the…More

Media & Culture

Schappelle Corby Has Already Ruined 2018: The Great Tweets Of @MarqueLawyers, Part II

Politics Are Personal: #Metoo And The Australian Film And Television Industry

EXPLAINER: New Matilda’s Reporting Around #metoo

The New Social Order: Keaton Jones And The Viral Bullying Video

John Pilger On Why The Documentary Must Not Be Allowed To Die

The Clayton-Latham Defence: The Debate You Have About Anti-White Racism When You’re Not Really Having A Debate About Anti-White Racism

Milo Yiannopoulos And How The Media Boosts Fascists And Bags Its Opponents

Google Not Feeling So Lucky Over Australian Defamation Case

Is #MeToo The Privatisation Of Protest?

Helen Razer Fires Back On The Powerlessness Of Persuasion, And #metoo

#MeToo: Trauma Triggering Or Trigger-Happy?

John Pilger On Hillary Clinton, Julian Assange And The ABC’s War On Truth

Asylum Seekers View all

Children locked up in immigration detention on Nauru, August 2016. This image is courtesy of Mums 4 Refugees.

Kellie Tranter
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Our Border Protection Spin Isn’t Fooling The World, UN Docs Reveal

The international community is not fooled by Australia’s human rights offending immigration policies, writes Kellie…More

Children locked up in immigration detention on Nauru, August 2016. This image is courtesy of Mums 4 Refugees.

Lauren Bull
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Your Silence On Manus And Nauru Is Your Complicity

What Australia has done to people seeking asylum is the responsibility of all Australians, writes…More

A screencap from an ABC News story, showing Manus Island detainees this week.

Elise Addlem
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Manus Island: Those For Whom We Cannot Grieve

As a nation, overcoming our fear of ‘the other’ and exposing our own vulnerabilities is…More

A screengrab from an ABC news report on the unfolding crisis on Manus Island.

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Manus Crisis: Our Protests Must Build Momentum

The crisis unfolding on Manus Island is a new low in Australian political life. The…More

Business & Consumerism View all

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Bad Business: Marque Lawyers Zeroes In On 5 Corporations Caught Trying To Rip You Off

Big business – you might remember them from such scandals as ‘you pay tax, we don’t’ and ‘we’re going to…More

Education View all

(IMAGE: Onur YILDIRIM, Flickr)

University Paradoxes: A Decent Degree And No Job; A Job And No Degree Of Decency

Every first-year Philosophy undergraduate learns how to recognise a paradox, and there are two basic types. The first is a…More

Workers' Rights View all

NSW Minister for Finance, Services and Property, Victor Dominello... behind the decision to adopt a school cleaning contract model in NSW that is being abandoned in Victoria, because workers were ripped off.

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Cleaning Up (Part 2): ‘Malevolent Or Stupid’ Minister Adopts Abandoned Vic Scheme That Fleeced School Cleaners

In the second story in a two part series, Michael Brull investigates a NSW Government move that will virtually guarantee…More