April 2025

Newspaper article about government loan policies.

Starting A Go Fund Me For Peter Dutton’s Poor Son…

15 April 2025 Rossleigh 6

There’s a certain hypocrisy about nearly all political leaders: We’ll see the happy family all up there for various events like campaign launches or victory parties, but then when someone asks a difficult question about […]

Operation Sovereign Borders: A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure

15 April 2025 Roger Chao 1

WELCOME, DEAR READER! IT’S TIME TO BEGIN, A TALE OF ESCAPE, WHERE HOPE GIVES IN. YOU’RE SEEKING A HOME, A PLACE SAFE AND FREE, BUT CHOICES ARE FEW, AS YOU’LL SOON COME TO SEE. TURN […]

Three people in safety gear walking outside.

Dutton’s Housing “Initiative”: A Masterclass in Political Hypocrisy

15 April 2025 AIMN Editorial 5

By Wilkinson Kayne Peter Dutton’s recent PR campaign – featuring his son and an affordable housing initiative – is a textbook case study in political miscalculation. The optics alone are disastrous: a wealthy politician using […]

Who benefits from fair trade and trade wars?

14 April 2025 Bert Hetebry 4

Choices governments make and the economic consequences “What ever happens we have got The Maxim Gun, and they have not.” (British poet Hilaire Belloc, “The Modern Traveller”, 1898) At the height of the British Empire, […]

Kangaroo between American and Chinese flags.

Australia may soon be faced with an ultimatum

14 April 2025 Michael Taylor 21

It was rather uncomfortable reading that a global strategist has warned that Australia could have just months before we are “asked to choose” who we align with between the US and China amid an escalating […]

Two leaders with Chinese and American flags.

Trump’s return: Long-term implications for the Pacific region, Asia and Europe

14 April 2025 AIMN Editorial 2

By Callen Sorensen Karklis Thucydides was an ancient Athenian general and historian who recounted the Peloponnesian War between Sparta and Athens in 5th century BC. He is also considered the father of scientific history. * […]

Olfactive Implications: Perfume, Power and Emmanuel Macron

14 April 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

Apparently, he is addicted to it. The French President, Emmanuel Macron, adores using perfume. The variety: Dior Eau Sauvage. Dior states that the perfume is characterised by notes of Calabrian bergamot and Papua New Guinean […]

Group walking with lanterns under moonlight.

The Lantern Carriers

14 April 2025 Roger Chao 0

In the town of Latchmere Vale, where cobbled paths entwine, The nights are dim, the fog is thick, the stars refuse to shine. But once a year or maybe two, a light will pierce the […]

When will progressive media acknowledge and condemn US enabled genocide in Gaza?

14 April 2025 AIMN Editorial 6

By Walt Zlotow When will the progressive media – namely the popular Rachael Maddow, Chris Hayes and Lawrence O’Donnell – acknowledge and condemn US enabled genocide in Gaza? Every night millions of progressives and folks […]

The Fourth Reich

13 April 2025 AIMN Editorial 8

By James Moore “So we march on, following our leaders, toward an ‘Armageddon of our own making.’” (Noam Chomsky, Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy). When the war in Vietnam […]

Australia wealth deregulation impact illustration.

How Deregulation Sold Australia’s Wealth

13 April 2025 AIMN Editorial 18

By Denis Hay Description Discover how banking deregulation and foreign capital flows drained Australia’s wealth and sovereignty – and what we can do to reclaim it. A Nation Opened: A Future Sold Picture this: It’s […]

Voting encouragement graphic with ballot box and megaphone.

Cui bono

13 April 2025 2353NM 6

Cui bono is a Latin phrase that translates as ‘to whom is it a benefit’. It is a question we should be asking when entering the polling booth in a few weeks. In the mid […]

Tweet about Peter Dutton finding his mojo.

We’ve Reached The We Don’t Think We Can Win, So Promise Anything Stage Of The Election!

13 April 2025 Rossleigh 17

A few weeks ago, Labor were long odds to win and people were adjusting to the idea that the Liberals had come up with a potential answer to the question of: “How can any PM […]

People gathered around a statue in field.

The Gilded Throne

13 April 2025 Roger Chao 2

I drove through a dust-bitten stretch of America where the billboards flicker and sag, Old campaign signs bleach under decades of sunlight, rusted through at the jag. And I saw a man in a service […]

The Don of Deals: A Reality Show Where Everyone Pays… Literally

13 April 2025 Lachlan McKenzie 0

Episode 1: “Protection Rackets for Beginners” Premise: Our charismatic host, “The Don,” strolls into America’s economic backyard, slaps a “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN” cap on the Statue of Liberty, and announces a “very beautiful, very […]

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Month: April 2025