May 2025

A mother holds her malnourished child amid crisis.

Oxfam reaction to the Gaza IPC hunger figures

13 May 2025 AIMN Editorial 3

Oxfam Australia Media Release Reacting to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report published today on Gaza warning that a risk of famine is “increasingly likely” if intense hostilities and restricted humanitarian access persist […]

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Sex and Gender – Essential but Messy (Part 2)

13 May 2025 AIMN Editorial 2

By Elizabeth Dangerfield Continued from Part 1 PART TWO – MESSY GENDER What you don’t know about sex Please note: This article, whilst scientific in purpose and nature, contains explicit material which some people may […]

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My Open Letter to Progressives in Labor, the Greens and Climate 200

13 May 2025 AIMN Editorial 6

By Callen Sorensen Karklis In mid-2025, Australia’s Labor Party secured its most resounding federal election victory in history, capturing up to 92 seats in the House of Representatives. The Greens, while retaining 12 seats in […]

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Why a New Social Contract is Needed Now

12 May 2025 AIMN Editorial 0

By Denis Hay Description A new social contract. Australians deserve better. Discover how to restore justice, services, and democracy in our post-election parliament. Introduction – Reclaiming the Social Contract Location: Suburban Melbourne, 1983 You walk […]

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Empires, colonies, past and present: The good, the bad and the ugly

12 May 2025 Bert Hetebry 2

At the height of its imperial power, Britain had about 130 colonies, imperial ‘possessions’ which encircled the earth. France, Portugal, Spain and the Netherlands accounted for over 200 possessions. Germany, Russia, Belgium, Sweden and Norway […]

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World-first solar thermal demonstrator targets net zero breakthrough for industry and agriculture

12 May 2025 AIMN Editorial 2

University of South Australia (UniSA) Media Release Industry and academia are collaborating to build a world-first, cost-effective concentrated solar thermal (CST) demonstrator that is set to transform Australia’s industrial heat sector by reducing its reliance […]

Donald Trump with a Qatar Airways jet in the background.

The Ultimate Gift: Qatar’s Dilemma and Trump’s Throne in the Sky

12 May 2025 Roswell 8

Gift-giving is a universal headache, isn’t it? We’ve all been there – scratching our heads over what to get someone who’s got the lot. Spare a thought for Qatar’s Royal Family, who faced this exact […]

Protesters with rainbow flags confront Trump over transgender rights.

Sex and Gender – Essential but Messy (Part 1)

12 May 2025 AIMN Editorial 4

By Elizabeth Dangerfield PART ONE – MESSY SEX What you don’t know about sex Please note: This article, whilst scientific in purpose and nature, contains explicit material which some people may find offensive. Many shades […]

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Trouble in Tariff Town

11 May 2025 AIMN Editorial 4

By James Moore During the mid-80s, I spent a bit of time following Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot around Texas as he tried to reform the state’s nearly pathetic public education system. The Dallas businessman […]

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A Reflective Assessment of Goldstein’s MPs Through the Lens of Moral Disengagement

11 May 2025 AIMN Editorial 4

Election 2025 – Ethical Reflections on Our MPs – past and present- and Democratic Duty By Sue Barrett As we wait with anticipation for the final count in the 2025 Australian federal election, the Goldstein […]

A bishop stands smiling next to a text about anti-Trump posts.

White Smoke and Speculation: The Election of Pope Leo XIV

11 May 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 1

The occasion of electing another Pope was a spectacle in time and, in many ways, outside it. It was the one rare occasion in the twenty-first century where ancient ceremony, the old boy network – many […]

Trump ends airstrike, more bombs dropped on Houthis.

Trump blinked in failed war against Yemeni Houthis

11 May 2025 AIMN Editorial 1

By Walt Zlotow President Trump has a strange way of declaring victory in an undeclared, immoral, criminal but most importantly a lost war which mainly killed civilians in Yemen. Trump has been blasting away at […]

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HONK IF YOU’RE GUILTY: The Glorious Goose Leader Declares Due Process ‘Too Wordy’

11 May 2025 Lachlan McKenzie 8

Dispatch from the United States of Honkerica By Quill Feathers, Reality Correspondent (barely) In an alternate dimension where logic went out for a pack of smokes and never came back, the Republic of Honkerica has […]

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From the Archives: Meet Sky After Dark’s Voice to Parliament

11 May 2025 AIMN Editorial 11

An article by Kaye Lee on our old site from June 2, 2022 has been attracting a lot of readers over the past few days. Due to its popularity, we’re republishing it here. We trust […]

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The pro-nuclear drive and Zionism are inter-twined

10 May 2025 Noel Wauchope 6

For many years, I’ve been running websites devoted to the nuclear-free movement. People have asked me why, over the past two years, I’ve been including news about Israel and Gaza. What on earth do Israel […]

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