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Nov 26, 2024 | 
newmatilda.com | New Matilda
President-elect Donald Trump has reportedly appointed a close cousin and doppelganger to fill the role of United States Attorney General, after his original nominee, sex pest Matt Gaetz, withdrew to avoid details of his alleged offending being made public.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
newmatilda.com | New Matilda
If you feel like being inspired (albeit a little sad) it’s worth checking out the Instagram page of popular 90s TV presenter Fiona MacDonald, who passed away late this week, aged 67. If you’re GenX, or the end of Gen Y, you’ll remember MacDonald as the upbeat co-host of ‘It’s A Knockout’, the most ‘Queensland’ game show ever conceived, pitting teams from different states against each other in a series of ridiculous challenges.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
newmatilda.com | New Matilda
New Matilda does not accept advertising revenue. Instead, we give away our banner advertising to charities, not-for-profits and friends (businesses and other organisations) who share our ethics and our aspirations, particularly those in regional and remote parts of Australia. Black Witness is the first book by renowned Australian journalist Dr Amy McQuire. Long term readers will recall that Amy used to work for New Matilda.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
newmatilda.com | New Matilda
New Matilda does not accept advertising revenue. Instead, we give away our banner advertising to charities, not-for-profits and friends (businesses and other organisations) who share our ethics and aspirations, particularly those in regional and remote parts of Australia. Fresh Pirate Industries is a small business based in Gloucester, in the NSW Hunter Valley. It’s run by Nick Graham, the brother of New Matilda editor Chris Graham.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
newmatilda.com | New Matilda
It feels like only yesterday… or maybe last week, depending on your age, but whatever the sensation 2024 marks 30 years since the release of iconic Australian film ‘The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert’. And that means the far western NSW outback – the setting for some of the more iconic scenes from the film – is in party mode, courtesy of the annual Broken Heel festival which grinds the region to a halt every September.
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Jul 14, 2024 | 
newmatilda.com | New Matilda
Despite the American political and media class falling over itself (in Joe Biden’s case, probably literally) to promote the key talking point from Donald Trump’s latest political rally that ‘political violence is never the answer’, we decided to ask ChatGPT if that was, in fact, true. No surprises for guessing what happened. You can read the brief conversation with New Matilda on ChatGPT’s site here, or it’s republished below.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
newmatilda.com | New Matilda
Respected think-tank The Australia Institute (TAI) has weighed in on the Coalition’s exciting new policy adventure, known colloquially as ‘We were in government for almost a decade and did nothing, but now that we’re back in Opposition we’ve just realized nuclear power is a great way to help save the planet’. Those are our words, not theirs. And by ‘theirs’, we mean the Coalition, because it seems the TAI is definitely no fan of nuclear power.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
newmatilda.com | New Matilda
Another WORLD EXCLUSIVE from New Matilda… this time we’ve obtained fresh footage from an alternate angle of the brutal assault of internationally renowned Canberra press gallery journalist Liam Mendes overnight, by ageing former Liberal Party bridge troll Peter Costello. And a TRIGGER WARNING to our viewers: The footage you are about to see of the rampant attack on Mr Mendes by Costello is brutal, and disturbing.
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May 24, 2024 | 
newmatilda.com | New Matilda
British misogynist and self-described ‘most Googled person on earth’ Andrew Tate has had cold water poured on his aspirations for Irish citizenship… because the international airport at Dublin is “broken” and undergoing “roadworks that will be going on for a good while”. The devastating news comes as Tate – who remains under house arrest in Romania accused of a string of violence and sex offences – looks around for better lifestyle options.
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Apr 14, 2024 | 
newmatilda.com | New Matilda
Aboriginal students, boys, students with a disability, and students from low SES backgrounds are being disproportionately excluded from schools, according to a new study released this week by researchers at the University of South Australia. The study shows that exclusionary practices such as suspensions not only fail to identify the deep-rooted causes of challenging student behaviours, but exacerbate negative issues rather than resolve them.
