newmatilda.com, commonly known as New Matilda, is an independent Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n website of news, analysis and satire.

The website was established by John Menadue

John Menadue

John Laurence Menadue AO is a former Australian public servant and diplomat.Menadue was born in South Australia and graduated from the University of Adelaide in 1956 as a Bachelor of Economics. He is married with four children and ten grand children.From 1960 to 1967 Menadue was Private Secretary...

 in August 2004. It is now registered in the name of Cordell Media Pty Ltd, a company which is not aligned with any political party. In May 2007, the policy section of newmatilda.com separated to become the Centre for Policy Development

Centre for Policy Development

The Centre for Policy Development is an Australian independent public interest think tank, founded in 2007. It was originally associated with the then magazine New Matilda-Fellows of the Centre :Fellows of the Centre include::*Fred Argy...

, a left-wing think tank.

On 27 May 2010, editor Marni Cordell announced that the publication would cease on 25 June, due to financial support drying up.

On 8 Oct 2010, Cordell announced that newmatilda.com would be returning as a reader supported site. The site raised more than $150,000 in a six week fundraising campaign and is now back up and running and publishing daily.

Content

The website publishes around 20 articles per week covering Australian politics, business, consumerism, civil society, international affairs, media and culture. Including editorials, a total of 288 articles were published in 2004, 660 articles in 2005, 636 articles in 2006, 631 articles in 2007, 755 articles in 2008 and 736 articles in 2009.

Political cartoons

Beginning in May 2008, the website featured the satirist cartoons of Bill Leak

Bill Leak

Bill Leak is a cartoonist and painter, primarily of portraits. He is the daily editorial cartoonist on The Australian newspaper. He has won the Walkley Awards nine times....

. In July 2008, it launched an annual online competition for political cartooning.

The first competition ran for three months, from July through to September 2008. The winner was Sarah Parsons, who received first prize of $6,000. The second competition opened in April 2009 and the winner was Sydney-based Fiona Katauskas. The finalists' entries were displayed at the Tap Gallery in Darlinghurst.

Contributors

The website publishes articles from over 1,000 international and Australian writers. Regular contributors include:

• Andrew Bartlett
  Andrew Bartlett
  Andrew John Julian Bartlett is an Australian politician. He was formerly an Australian Democrats member of the Australian Senate from 1997 to 2008, representing the state of Queensland. He was the leader of the Democrats from 2002 to 2004, and deputy leader from 2004 to 2008.-Early life and...
  
  
• Robert Fisk
  Robert Fisk
  Robert Fisk is an English writer and journalist from Maidstone, Kent. As Middle East correspondent of The Independent, he has primarily been based in Beirut for more than 30 years. He has published a number of books and has reported on the United States's war in Afghanistan and the same country's...
  
  
• Bruce Haigh
  Bruce Haigh
  Bruce Douglas Haigh joined the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in 1972. He served in South Africa from 1976 to 1979 with the Australian Embassy ....
  
  
• Clive Hamilton
  Clive Hamilton
  Clive Charles Hamilton AM FRSA is an Australian public intellectual and Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics and the Vice-Chancellor's Chair in Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University. He is the Founder and former Executive Director of the The...
  
  
• Antony Loewenstein
  Antony Loewenstein
  Antony Loewenstein is an atheist Jewish-Australian political activist, freelance journalist, author and blogger who is based in Sydney.Loewenstein has written for The Guardian, Haaretz, The Washington Post, Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, Sydney's Sun-Herald, The Bulletin, ZNet, The Big...
  
  
• John Martinkus
  John Martinkus
  John Martinkus is a print and television journalist renowned in his native Australia for his courageous reporting from conflict zones.He began reporting from Indonesian occupied East Timor in 1995 and set up base there permanently in 1998...
  
  
• Jennifer Mills
  Jennifer Mills
  Jennifer Mills is an Australian novelist, short story writer and poet. She is the author of the novels 'The Diamond Anchor' and 'Gone' , both published by University of Queensland Press, and a chapbook of poems, Treading Earth....
  
  
• John Pilger
  John Pilger
  John Richard Pilger is an Australian journalist and documentary maker, based in London. He has twice won Britain's Journalist of the Year Award, and his documentaries have received academy awards in Britain and the US....
  
  
• Helen Razer
  Helen Razer
  Helen Razer is a Melbourne-born and Canberra-raised radio presenter and writer. She is the author of four non-fiction books and a columnist with the Australian version of The Big Issue, Melbourne newspaper The Age, and contributor to monthly magazine, Cherrie .-Media work:Razer was a prominent...
  
  
• Stuart Rees
  Stuart Rees
  Emeritus Professor Stuart Rees AM is an Australian academic and author who is the Director of the Sydney Peace Foundation and Emeritus Professor at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney in Australia.-Education:...
  
  
• Lee Rhiannon
  Lee Rhiannon
  Lee Rhiannon , an Australian politician, is a Senator for New South Wales, elected at the 2010 federal election, representing the Australian Greens...
  
  
• Graham Ring
• Guy Rundle
• Alicia Sometimes
• Tim Soutphommasane
  Tim Soutphommasane
  Tim Soutphommasane is a French-born Australian writer and newspaper columnist. He is currently a Research Fellow in the National Centre of Australian Studies at Monash University in Melbourne and a senior project leader with the Per Capita think tank....
  
  
• Marcus Westbury
  Marcus Westbury
  Marcus Westbury is an Australian festival director. He is currently based in Melbourne, Australia where he filmed the TV series Not Quite Art...
  
  
• Katherine Wilson
• Irfan Yusuf
  Irfan Yusuf
  Irfan Yusuf is an Australian lawyer, social commentator and author of the memoir Once Were Radicals: My years as a teenage Islamo-fascist.-Education and work:...