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Fox News Host Gets Man-Knickers In A Knot Over University Language Guide

The United States is currently engaged in a heated internal war centred around the gun debate. That’s because people keep shooting people… in particular children.…More

Ever Wanted To Send A Pollie A Middle Finger Salute? Well Now You Can!

February 27, 2018

Ever Wanted To Send A Pollie A Middle Finger Salute? Well Now You Can!

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Special Investigations View all

UPDATED: Fresh Twist: ABC (Falsely) Reports Charles Waterstreet Has Launched Defamation Action, Amid Q&A Meltdown

UPDATE: Crikey has reported that Charles Waterstreet claims he has NOT launched defamation proceedings against…More

Aboriginal Affairs

BEHIND BARS PART 5: Australia’s Shocking Cruelty To Aboriginal People With Disabilities: The Need For Large-Scale Change

BEHIND BARS PART 4: Australia’s Shocking Cruelty To Aboriginal People With Disabilities: Overcrowding, No Medical Treatment, No Accessibility

BEHIND BARS PART 3: Australia’s shocking cruelty to Aboriginal people with disabilities: Solitary confinement

BEHIND BARS PART 2: Australia’s Shocking Cruelty To Aboriginal People With Disabilities; In Their Own Words

BEHIND BARS PART 1: Australia’s Shocking Cruelty To Aboriginal People With Disabilities

A Question For Anthony Mundine: Am I Not Your People?

Apartheid State: Compensation For Sexual Abuse Victims, Betrayal For Stolen Generations

Kite Flying With Flags: Luke Foley Gives With One Hand, Middle Fingers With The Other

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

Invasion Day Is More Than Just A Day On The Calendar

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

Australian Politics

LGBTIQ Community Takes Aim At New Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack

Barnaby Joyce Was Fair Game, But There Still Needs To Be A Privacy Line We Don’t Cross

Barnaby Joyce: The Very Model Of A Modern Major Scandal

Barnaby’s Problems Were Personal. Now He’s A Problem For The Government.

Banking With A Silent ‘W’: How To Neuter A Royal Commission

Michelle Landry: Politician, Dinosaur, But Still Hip To The Groove Of The Youth Of Today

The Complete List: A Bit More Meat For Your NM Dirty 30 Sandwich

One Rule To Save Them All: The Religious Right To Hire And Fire

Barnaby Joyce And The Magical Straight Condom That Protected Him From Public Scrutiny

Shuffling Seats: The Politicians Who Put ‘Person Over Party’… And Democracy

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

International Affairs View all

First, Do No Harm: ‘Voluntourism’ And The Harm Of Medical Electives

It’s one thing to volunteer overseas to help the sick and poor. It’s another thing altogether to do it for…More

Environment

Making Water From Whine: The Murray Darling Basin’s Magic Numbers Machine

Stone Coal Crazy: Seismic Testing Off The Australian Coastline

Democracy Zindabad! A Day In The Life Of Anti-Coal Resistance In India’s Energy Capital

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?

Civil Society View all

Making The Market: Australians And Their Role In The Online Abuse Of Children

The online abuse of children is a growing problem, and Australia in particular has an important role to play, given…More

Media & Culture

Ex-ABC Heavyweights Weigh In Over Claims Emma Alberici Was Censored

The Great Australian Debate: Is It Chicken Parmi, Parmy or Parma?

The Suppression Of Clive Hamilton’s Book Demonstrates (Again) The Real Menace To Free Speech

Free Muslim Women… To Wear Whatever Caroline Overington Says They Should

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

Asylum Seekers View all

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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

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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

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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

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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

Australia’s Housing Market Isn’t Broken, It’s Working Perfectly… For Some

While public housing wait lists blow out in some regions to a decade, in just three years elite property developers…More

Education View all

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

Fair Work Suspended Sydney Train Strike Because The System Labor Created Is Awful

If you’re going to cause traffic congestion, you can’t engage in a strike. But luck if you’re striking because you’re…More