Quick link: New Matilda appeals for support
Independent media site New Matilda, which ceased operations just after Kevin Rudd was overthrown as Prime Minister, is back, and is appealling for reader contributions to continue publishing. Details of their fundraising drive are here.
New Matilda to fold: What comes next?
Crikey is reporting that New Matilda, which launched in August 2004, is to cease publishing on June 25. Editor Marni Cordell sums up the website’s achievements, and discusses its financial plight, in an editorial published this morning: The online media [...]
Rebutting the BER scare campaign
From my point of view, the campaign against the Building the Education Revolution as “wasted spending” by The Australian appears to consist largely of beating up any whinge without any context or fact checking, combined with inappropriate cost comparisons. As [...]
Budget 2010 preview and open thread
This is a thread for commentary, links and analysis for tonight’s Federal Budget. It’s being billed as an opportunity for Wayne Swan to save Kevin Rudd, which I think is pretty hyperbolic (and it’s always interesting to contrast the journosphere’s [...]
Stop the press! Media narrative wrong!
Ben Eltham has a neat piece in New Matilda today comprehensively detailing the reasons why the ‘Rudd quaking in his boots’ story is tosh. He makes a very good point about the relative inattention given to the Essential Research poll [...]
Homelessness is not a choice
In the wake of Abbott’s Brutopian comments at the Catholic Social Services Australia national conference, Stephen Nash, CEO of Melbourne homelessness and housing support agency HomeGround Services, has published a rebuttal of the claim that homelessness is a choice at [...]
International climate change policy after Copenhagen
Last night on Lateline, Ross Garnaut pointed out to an apparently taken aback Tony Jones that 57% support for the ETS – as a major reform – was actually extremely impressive. Today in New Matilda, Ben Eltham rightly says that [...]
What if they gave a culture war and no one came?
Naomi Parry reviews the reception (and content) of Keith Windschuttle’s new book at New Matilda: Late last year Keith Windschuttle released another book questioning the existence of the stolen generations. But this time, nobody cared. Very few people would be [...]
ABC News 24/7
There’s been some discussion on the ABC’s decision to introduce a 24 hour news channel on a related thread, and it deserves consideration in its own right. Mark Scott’s announcement was accompanied by the now ritualised shots across the bow [...]
Higgins by-election (and Bradfield by-election)
Tomorrow sees voters in Peter Costello’s old seat of Higgins (and Brendan Nelson’s seat of Bradfield) go to the polls. Labor is not running in either by-election. That seemed like an arguably justifiable decision at the time nominations closed, but [...]
Shock! Horror! Political journosphere shocked by the ALP playing politics!
By Mark Bahnisch on February 5, 2010
Ben Eltham has a wrap up of the week in politics at New Matilda. It’s certainly fair to say that it certainly didn’t go all the Coalition’s way. What surprises me about the commentary we’ve seen in the lead up [...]
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