August 2025

They have a mandate – they should use it

31 August 2025 2353NM 6

Last week, the Australian Government signed an agreement with the Government of Nauru to allow the deportation of a group of asylum seekers who had their visas cancelled on ‘character grounds’. While all of them […]

Protest sign against buying elections, Capitol backdrop.

Trust and Us

31 August 2025 AIMN Editorial 3

By James Moore America has become a country where children cannot trust their parents when they tell them they will be safe at school. Even a child knows that is not the truth. A society […]

Blueprint illustration of engineered nationalism concept.

Engineered Nationalism: How Extremists Built the March for Australia

31 August 2025 Lachlan McKenzie 6

Introduction Patriotism, flags, and chants of “Australia” made for glossy photos. But the March for Australia wasn’t grassroots – it was engineered. From the very beginning, white nationalist organisers conceived, designed, and managed the rallies, […]

Indigenous group performing traditional dance outdoors.

From Ignorance to Understanding: Facing the Truth of Colonisation (Part 10)

31 August 2025 Lachlan McKenzie 0

Chapter 10: Destruction of Language, Art, and Lore More Than Land and Labour Colonisation did not only take land and exploit labour. It also struck directly at the heart of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander […]

Crowd with flags outside building entrance.

No place for extremism or hate in Australia: ACOSS

31 August 2025 AIMN Editorial 5

ACOSS Media Release “Acts of racism, hate and discrimination are abhorrent and have no place in our society. ACOSS respects the right to peaceful assembly but we reject in strongest terms all forms of racism, […]

News reporter in Gaza, headline visible.

Let Them In: Opening Gaza to the Foreign Press Corps

31 August 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 1

The Fourth Estate may not be in a good way, corrupted and compromised as it is, but in some instances, it remains the only light cast over the predations and ghastliness of power. For that […]

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Trump survives yet again, internet collapses anyway

31 August 2025 Roswell 4

After several breathless days of online hysteria, we can confirm that President Donald Trump is, regrettably for some and joyously for others, still alive. The social media frenzy, fueled by wild speculation, dubious “sources,” and […]

Vaccine vial with false autism claim label.

Beyond the Myths: Protecting Autistic Lives, Public Health, and the Future of Science (Part 4)

31 August 2025 Lachlan McKenzie 2

Part 9: Policy Spillovers – What Happens When Coverage Drops The claim that vaccines cause autism may begin as rhetoric, but it doesn’t stay rhetorical for long. Once coverage drops, the consequences arrive quickly – […]

Whistleblower in chains, crowd applauding.

Australia loves pudding – but only if whistleblowers can’t eat it

31 August 2025 Lachlan McKenzie 9

Richard Boyle is finally free. Eight years, endless hearings, and the grinding punishment-by-process later, he walks away without a conviction. His crime? Telling us the truth. His greater sin? Collecting proof of it. Judge Liesl […]

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When America starts to sound like its enemies

30 August 2025 Michael Taylor 3

Not North Korea, not Russia, not Nazi Germany – but troubling all the same While listening to an American podcast this morning, I was struck by a reporter’s provocative remark: he said he’s unsure whether […]

Screenshot from Sky News Australia complaining that social cohesion is under threat here.

Decoding “social cohesion”

30 August 2025 Lucy Hamilton 7

While “social cohesion” can convey the benign sense of societies working to include rather than marginalise, to develop wholesome “collective political actions aiming at creating a coherent society”, that is not how the concept is […]

A dark cloud over the United States

30 August 2025 Roswell 8

As someone born in the United States I watch events over there with a mix of disbelief, sorrow, and growing dread. The land that once prided itself on freedom, innovation, and resilience, feels as though […]

From Ignorance to Understanding: Facing the Truth of Colonisation (Part 9)

30 August 2025 Lachlan McKenzie 1

Chapter 9: Torres Strait Islanders and Blackbirding in Queensland Two Histories, One Struggle While Aboriginal peoples across the continent were subjected to massacres, chains, and stolen wages, Torres Strait Islander communities endured their own form […]

What Mark Dreyfus’ Parliamentary Address Reveals About Tim Wilson’s Campaign Conduct

30 August 2025 AIMN Editorial 6

How to Lobby for Change: Engaging Parliamentary Committees to Reform Our Democracy By Sue Barrett When a seasoned politician like Mark Dreyfus, Australia’s former Attorney-General and a parliamentarian with over two decades of service, takes […]

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How Fossil Fuel Influence in Australia Blocks Progress

30 August 2025 AIMN Editorial 2

By Denis Hay Description Fossil fuel influence in Australia distorts democracy, delays climate action, and protects corporate power over clean energy. 🎧 Prefer to listen to this article? Press play Introduction – A System Built […]

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