The Australian Independent Media Network

The Earth is in a fine mess, but human beings sealed in laboratories full of energy and vigour, attached to screens, and running tests about conditions in space, have another reason to cheer. Between April […]

By Denis Hay Description Why governments ignore public interest in Australia, and how realistic media reform and political change can shift power back to citizens. Introduction Australians are increasingly asking the same question: why governments ignore […]

They are not just selling medicine. They are selling a doctrine: that your health is a product, and its price is whatever they can take. In the shadow of this global enterprise, a quiet war […]

In 2001, as Australia argued over refugees, borders, and national identity, John Howard delivered a line that would come to define an era: “We will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in […]

The Touska Gambit: Piracy, Power, and the Theatre of Broken Promises Theatre That is the word you need to hold onto as you try to make sense of what happened in the Gulf of Oman […]

Depending on which historical sources you care to consult, the Pope has been a figure of obloquy, ridicule and abomination. This mediator between the terrestrial and the divine was always set for the battering. Martin […]

A Note on the Instrument. Martin Amis understood that certain horrors cannot be approached frontally. You do not walk up to the monstrous and describe it. You circle it, you find its vanity and its […]

There was a time – not so long ago – when the office of President of the United States seemed a sufficiently demanding role. Nuclear codes, global alliances, the occasional domestic crisis. A full plate, […]

How a 400-Year-Old Corporate Blueprint Became the Architecture of Modern Power – and Why We Can Choose to Make It Irrelevant Dedicated to my wife, who sees the pattern before the pieces fall. I. Introduction: […]

By Denis Hay   Description Why do Australians pay for the NBN if it was publicly funded? Discover where your money goes and why the internet still costs so much. Introduction: The Question Millions Are Asking […]

By James Moore “America’s greatest promise is that something is going to happen, and after awhile you get tired of waiting because nothing happens to people except that they grow old and nothing happens to […]

Yes, ain’t it grand! We, the God-fearing, God-loving, West and Israel don’t really need any longer to put our $billions of tax-payer money into those horribly expensive nuclear missiles, bombs, submarines. Good old new technology […]

A NOTE ON CLARKE AND DAWE John Clarke and Bryan Dawe were, for thirty years, the sharpest double act in Australian public life. Every Thursday night on the ABC, Clarke played the politician, the bureaucrat, […]