The Australian Independent Media Network

By Denis Hay   Description Australia defence spending priorities reveal trade-offs between military budgets and essential public services. Introduction Australia defence spending priorities are increasingly raising concerns about whether public money is being directed toward national […]

Step One: Adopt Our Values There’s a particular kind of sentence in Australian politics that sounds firm, sensible, and reassuring – right up until you ask the most basic follow-up question. Angus Taylor’s announcement that […]

By Maria Millers   Nobody wins a war Two thousand twenty four, I hear the drums of war Echo in the blackened skies with no sign of compromise Children watch their cities burn, when will […]

Lisa Goodwin’s twins are autistic. She applied three times before they were accepted onto the NDIS, then spent years fighting funding cuts through appeals, each round requiring her to prove, again, that her children were […]

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 […]