April 2025

For the Love of Landmines: European States Exit the Ottawa Convention

2 April 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3

Paranoia manifests in various ways. It can eat away individuals in desperate solitude, whittling away sanity and balance. It can be enlisted in the making of policy. The latter can be particularly dangerous, notably when readying […]

The Coalition’s climate car crash policy for higher pollution and higher petrol costs

2 April 2025 AIMN Editorial 4

The Climate Council Media Release Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is set to send another wrecking ball through Australia’s hard won, sensible climate policies, with reports indicating he plans to destroy the New Vehicle Efficiency Standards. […]

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Dutton Moving To Kirribilli So That He Can Be Closer To Melbourne!

2 April 2025 Rossleigh 13

There’s always some strange moments in an election campaign but one of the strangest is the recent announcement by Peter Dutton that he’d move into Kirribilli rather than The Lodge if he were to become […]

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Elect Peter Dutton, get a Dutton/Rinehart/Trump government

2 April 2025 Michael Taylor 9

The dynamics have changed somewhat since I wrote “Elect Peter Dutton, get a mini Trump” almost two months ago. The title of this article is the dead giveaway: It implies that voting for Dutton would […]

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Miclaucic’s “Cognitive War” is simply renaming “Propaganda War”

2 April 2025 AIMN Editorial 5

By Walt Zlotow Michael Miclaucic’s Chicago Tribune op-ed “The West is losing the cognitive war with Russia and China” is hyperbolic nonsense. Ask a hundred folks who study US foreign relations what ‘cognitive war’ is […]

It’s Liberation Day – Whoopee!

1 April 2025 Terence Mills 6

Winston Smith opened his eyes and focused on the drab room that he called his home. Chanting from the streets below reminded him that it was Liberation Day – a euphemism referring to the population […]

Greenland: What’s at stake (Part 2)

1 April 2025 Roswell 4

Continued from Part 1 In Part 2, I explore hypothetical scenarios, so think of this article as a mix of personal opinions and potential outcomes. Australia’s Potential Response Australia is in a tricky spot with […]

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Can Christians, Jews and Muslims ever get on together?

1 April 2025 Bert Hetebry 4

“There is seldom a difficulty with religion where there is friendship.” (Sebastian Barry, Irish novelist and playwright.) In a world wracked with religious wars, can there ever be a time and place where people of […]

Reserve Bank of Australia, text: On Hold.

RBA rates hold in anticipation of ‘Liberation Day’

1 April 2025 AIMN Editorial 2

Monash University Media Release Dr Isaac Gross, Department of Economics, Monash Business School suggests that: “The RBA held interest rates steady today as they await for the next set of quarterly inflation figures to see […]

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The need for healthy debate

1 April 2025 AIMN Editorial 3

By Maria Millers When was the last time you had a meaningful conversation with a friend or relative over coffee or over a drink with a mate while watching football? In previous generations, political discussions […]

Secrecy and Virtue Signalling: Another View of Signalgate

1 April 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

There has been a fascinating, near unanimous condemnation among the cognoscenti about the seemingly careless addition of Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic to the chat chain of Signal by US National Security Advisor Michael Waltz. […]

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Battle Cry of the Unbowed

1 April 2025 Roger Chao 1

In this hallowed land downunder, where change is underway, Lies a spark, untamed and fierce, that will not fade away. It’s a flame that feeds on anger, on the wrongs we can’t ignore, It’s a […]

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Detecting deepfakes during election campaigns

1 April 2025 AIMN Editorial 0

Monash University Media Release The generation of deepfakes during election campaigns is becoming more sophisticated, with advanced techniques in: Human-centred artificial intelligence Audio-visual deepfakes Computer vision Associate Professor Abhinav Dhall from Monash University’s Department of […]

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