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Matthew Dixon

Melbourne’s check mate

Is chess still a popular game? Matthew Dixon headed to the Melbourne Chess Club to find out.

Let’s tax our fat

With the unveiling of the world’s first fat tax in Denmark, Matthew Dixon investigates if it is a possible solution for Australia’s obesity problems.

Melbourne’s check mate

Is chess still a popular game? Matthew Dixon headed to the Melbourne Chess Club to find out.

Let’s tax our fat

With the unveiling of the world’s first fat tax in Denmark, Matthew Dixon investigates if it is a possible solution for Australia’s obesity problems.

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Class of 2011 – where are you now?

Just finished your journalism degree and scored your first media gig? Then here at upstart we want to know all about it, as we track the fate of the class of 2011.

Melbourne’s check mate

Is chess still a popular game? Matthew Dixon headed to the Melbourne Chess Club to find out.

Let’s tax our fat

With the unveiling of the world’s first fat tax in Denmark, Matthew Dixon investigates if it is a possible solution for Australia’s obesity problems.

An expensive show?

A visit to the Royal Melbourne Show can be costly. Matthew Dixon finds out if this major event is really worth the expense.

Teaching in a remote community

The incentives for teachers to move to remote areas of the Northern Territory might be attractive but are they worth it? Matthew Dixon explores.

100 articles – ‘Falling Man’

It was one of the most haunting images to appear in newspapers the day after 9/11. Why did it disappear? That’s what Tom Junod wondered when he wrote ‘Falling Man’, which Matthew Dixon has selected for our ‘100 articles’ list.

Bike polo holds court

Hardcourt bike polo has emerged as a popular sport among the cycling community in Melbourne. Matthew Dixon and Liana Neri went along to the regular Sunday contests.

Where are they now? Rania Spooner

La Trobe graduate Rania Spooner works for a regional daily newspaper and says she wouldn’t have done her cadetship any other way. She chatted to Matthew Dixon for our ‘Where are they now?’ project.

Is gun regulation really the answer?

Does the tragic massacre in Norway force us in Australia to question our attitude towards firearm control? Matthew Dixon considers Australia’s stance on firearms.

Meet the new upstart team

This week, we welcome upstart’s new editorial team. We hope you like them. And we really want you to pitch your stories to them.

Does the Australian Party really matter?

Some have claimed that Bob Katter’s new political party is a joke soon to be forgotten about. But as Matthew Dixon explains, it could end up having a bigger effect on Australian politics than we think.

From Melbourne to Missouri

La Trobe student Matthew Dixon reports from the (geographic) middle of America about his experience as an exchange student at the world’s oldest journalism school.