June 2025

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Why Protecting Our PBS Is More Urgent Than Ever

15 June 2025 AIMN Editorial 2

By Denis Hay Description Protecting our PBS is urgent. US executive orders impact Australia’s PBS listings. Explore alternative sources of medication from China and India to ensure supply stability. Introduction: When Politics Delays Your Prescription […]

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Expert Comment: No Kings Day Protests in the United States

15 June 2025 AIMN Editorial 4

Monash University Media Release Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to protest Donald Trump’s Presidency at No King’s Day gathering across the US this weekend. Associate Professor Ben Wellings explains that, while Trump doesn’t […]

Ambulances parked outside an emergency room with a message about funding failures.

Stop the Clock, Break the System: How Emergency Funding Models Fail Us All

14 June 2025 AIMN Editorial 1

By E. Moran, Health Systems Analyst Somewhere between the triage desk and the curtained cubicles of Australia’s emergency departments, there’s a ticking clock that shapes everything – not to save lives, but to meet targets. […]

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Does high art have to be unfathomable?

14 June 2025 AIMN Editorial 0

By Elizabeth Dangerfield If an artwork has huge popularity and public appeal is it by definition low art? According to Artificial Intelligence (the pinnacle of the rational?): “High art” generally refers to art forms like […]

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Why Gavin Newsom should be the Democrats’ next big bet

14 June 2025 Roswell 6

The 2028 presidential election may seem distant, but the race is already taking shape – and California Governor Gavin Newsom is emerging as a Democratic frontrunner. In a political landscape defined by division and spectacle, […]

Benjamin Netanyahu speaking at a podium with a headline about Iran.

Rogue States and Thought Crimes

14 June 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 9

Pre-emptive attacks in international law are rarely justified. The threat must evince itself through an obvious intent to inflict injury, evidence preparations that show the threat to be what Michael Walzer calls a “supreme emergency”, […]

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AUKUS: A Very Antipodean Stupidity

14 June 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 7

Call it abandonment, anxiety, or just latent stupidity. The messy goo of feelings and fuzzy notions behind Australia’s most injudicious strategic decision is yielding its nasty harvest. Conceived by paranoid armchair strategists, flabby think tankers […]

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There is too much spin being bowled

13 June 2025 John Lord 6

Captain Ley is batting on a deteriorating pitch In the language of cricket, the signs of wear are becoming evident on the pitch. The foundation that Susan Ley is laying before the Australian public following […]

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The Fabulous Submarines Deal!

13 June 2025 Rossleigh 3

The deal that Scott Morrison made was fabulous. There’s no other word for it. We need to make this clear to Richard Marles in case he hasn’t realised it for himself… Of course, the etymology […]

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Is art rational? – The Dinner Party

13 June 2025 AIMN Editorial 2

By Elizabeth Dangerfield When the mundane gets up front and personal and art challenges the establishment Disclaimer I believe all humans can be creative in one way or another. Whether it is solving difficult problems, […]

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Between regime change and saving innocents, U.S. always chooses regime change

13 June 2025 AIMN Editorial 3

By Walt Zlotow The Ides of March 2011 was not a good day for the Syrian people: Civil war broke out, lasting nearly 14 years, resulting in over 600,000 deaths. Last December Syrian President […]

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What Australians Want – And Why Labor Keeps Ignoring It

13 June 2025 AIMN Editorial 5

By Denis Hay Description What Australians want is bold public investment. So why does Labor fund private profit over public need? Here’s what your government won’t admit. Introduction: A Speech Full of Rhetoric, Not […]

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Monash expert: Israel launches missile strike on Iran

13 June 2025 AIMN Editorial 8

Monash University Media Release Israel has launched missile strikes on Iran, including attacks on nuclear and military targets. Dr Ben Zala, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Monash School of Social Sciences says: “This is […]

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The United States Has Crossed the Threshold

13 June 2025 Roswell 11

For nearly a decade, the United States has teetered on the edge of democratic backsliding, inching toward something far darker. In March 2023, I wrote “One Step Away from Total Fascism,” observing: “The news from […]

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The Morality of Small Means: Sanctioning Israel’s Ministers

13 June 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 5

They really ought to be doing more. But in the scheme of things, the sanctioning of Israeli’s frothily fanatical ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich by New Zealand, Canada, Norway, the United Kingdom and Australia […]

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