November 2025

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Staying in Tune: The Quiet Balancing Act of Today’s Small Business

26 November 2025 AIMN Editorial 1

By Sarah Noel There’s something you notice when you walk into a small business that’s been around a while. The light is warmer. Someone knows your name. The way the counter squeaks or the menu […]

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PwC Australia and UNSW Sydney develop solution to combat digital misinformation and deepfake fraud

26 November 2025 AIMN Editorial 1

UNSW Sydney Media Release A new framework could transform content creation by requiring creators to stake money on the accuracy of their claims. With misinformation and AI-generated deepfakes widespread, UNSW Business School and PwC Australia […]

Australian politics critique with money and parliament.

Market-First Politics Has Failed Australia

26 November 2025 AIMN Editorial 0

By Denis Hay Description Market-first politics has harmed Australia for decades. Learn how a politics of care and dollar sovereignty can build a fairer future for all Australians. A Personal View on Four Decades […]

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Why climate change means the public sector has to start building houses

26 November 2025 AIMN Editorial 0

By Dr Martha Knox Haly If you lose your house to climate change, there is a 90% chance you will still be living in a tent 5 years later. We all know Australia is in […]

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The Bookkeeper and the Visionary: How Profit Strangles the Ideas That Could Save Us

26 November 2025 Dr Andrew Klein, PhD 0

There is a fundamental, often fatal, mismatch between the world of the bookkeeper and the mind of the visionary. The bookkeeper operates in a universe of defined columns – black ink for profit, red for […]

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The Machinery? Clarke and Dawe do Richo’s state funeral

26 November 2025 David Tyler 6

This work is offered as a tribute to the late John Clarke and his brilliant collaborator, Bryan Dawe. Together, they transformed Australian political satire, pairing clarity with understatement and wit with moral intelligence. Their dialogues […]

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A tale of a terrible calamity visited on those with little by those with too much

25 November 2025 AIMN Editorial 6

By Elizabeth Dangerfield Imagine for one moment that you live in a little village in one of the remotest places on the planet. You cannot reach it by road or by train. You can […]

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The Liberals Have A Plan, Pauline Wears A Burqa And I’m Stuck In A Time Loop…

25 November 2025 Rossleigh 4

Unfortunately, I’ve thrown out all the old brochures that have arrived in my letterbox over the years, but I’m pretty sure that from the time Abbott released “Real Solutions For Imaginary Problems” or whatever that […]

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Thirteen Seconds vs. Thirteen Years: A Reflection on Compassion and Injustice

25 November 2025 AIMN Editorial 4

By Ali Mahmoodi Gharaei Recently, a video went viral on social media showing a young American tourist in Australia picking up a baby wombat from the side of the road and holding it briefly in front […]

COP30 summit concludes with mixed outcome.

COP30 falls short, offering a ‘spark of hope but far more heartbreak’

25 November 2025 AIMN Editorial 3

Oxfam Australia Media Release In response to the outcome of COP30, Oxfam Australia Policy and Advocacy Lead Josie Lee says: “Australia made some incremental progress at COP30, but the biggest barrier to meaningful climate action […]

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Sustainable Political Futures: Ending the Parliamentary Year with Consensus on Environmental Law Reforms

25 November 2025 Denis Bright 13

Australia’s environmental management framework is undergoing a timely review to overhaul the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act). The government’s proposed reforms seek to fundamentally transform the way national environmental matters are […]

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Thanks to US, in Gaza it’s death by a thousand planes

25 November 2025 AIMN Editorial 1

By Walt Zlotow In 1948 the US launched an airlift of food and supplies to keep Berliners fed and healthy during the Soviet blockade of allies from Berlin. During the airlift’s 15 months, US […]

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Australia’s Compensation System: The Perfect Storm of Home-Based Injuries, Mental Health Neglect, and Telehealth inadequacy (Part 2)

25 November 2025 Dr Andrew Klein, PhD 0

5 Systemic Failures: A System in Critical Condition Beyond specific issues with home injuries and mental health, the workers’ compensation system suffers from foundational problems that affect all claimants. 5.1 Frontline Professional Perspectives General practitioners […]

A State Funeral for Richo? What is Labor thinking?

24 November 2025 David Tyler 8

There is a joke circulating among NSW Labor veterans about Graham Richardson’s state funeral: “It will be the only funeral where the pallbearers are lobbyists.” It is a good line. It gets a laugh. But […]

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The beatings will continue . . .

24 November 2025 2353NM 3

In some ways you have to feel sorry for Opposition Leader Sussan Ley. Elected after a rout at the last election, Ley has attempted to unite a Coalition of political parties that seem hell bent […]

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