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Year: 2025

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Why Public Policy Cannot Command What Only Hearts Can Give

7 December 2025 Roger Chao 7
This year marks a watershed moment in Australia’s long and fraught journey toward justice and reconciliation. In Melbourne on 12 November 2025, the State of Victoria formally signed the country’s first and long-awaited treaty with […]
Elderly man with long white hair outdoors.
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The Invisible Leader: Lao Tzu’s Timeless Wisdom in a World of Failed Authority

7 December 2025 Dr Andrew Klein, PhD 11
An analysis of how true power lies in humility, and why so many modern leaders miss the mark “Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Start with what they know. […]
Autumn forest and mysterious figures in suits.
Environment

Labor’s Betrayal of Environmental Justice, a response to Bob Brown

6 December 2025 David Tyler 8
Bob Brown’s forensic dissection of Labor’s gutted environmental legislation in The Saturday Paper, 6 December 2025, strips away the usual parliamentary theatre to reveal a starker truth: Anthony Albanese and his crew have perfected the […]
High-speed train deal between China and Malaysia.
Politics

Political Futures Through New Pathways for Stability and Sustainable Development in Our Near North

6 December 2025 Denis Bright 10
The folly of drifting back to Cold War values has negative consequences for economic futures in both Australia and the economies of ASEAN countries. Strategic fears of an emergent China offset the national consensus on […]
Australia dollar sovereignty misuse and public good.
Health

Why Australian Dollar Sovereignty Misused for Corporations

6 December 2025 AIMN Editorial 4
By Denis Hay Description Australian dollar sovereignty is misused to enrich corporations instead of citizens. This article exposes how and why, and what Australians can demand. 🎧 Prefer to listen to this article? Press play […]
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Politics

It could be worse. What if Stephen Miller was Secretary of War?

6 December 2025 Roswell 5
My wife made an off-the-cuff remark the other night: “It could be worse. What if Stephen Miller was the Secretary of War?” It was one of those throwaway lines she delivers while passing the salt, […]
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When Algorithms Judge People, What Happens to Moral Responsibility?

6 December 2025 Roger Chao 2
In the same week that the APS AI Plan 2025 was released, charting a bold course for the modernisation of the Australian Public Service, the Australian Government has taken its next decisive step in the […]
Fibonacci sequence and golden ratio concept illustration.
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The Universal Code: A Harmony in Plain Sight

6 December 2025 Dr Andrew Klein, PhD 3
Have you ever noticed how certain numbers seem to form the hidden scaffolding of our world? They appear in the swirl of a seashell, the structure of our bodies, and the foundations of our societies. […]
Man in wet shirt holding a bottle.
Politics

Maybe Hegseth should have stuck with drinking instead of sobriety-induced murder in the Caribbean

6 December 2025 AIMN Editorial 2
By Walt Zlotow To get confirmed as Trump’s Secretary of Defense (War to Trump), Pete Hegseth had to swear off drinking, with which he clearly had a major problem. Senate Republicans believed his promise to […]
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Politics

South Australia’s best kept secret

6 December 2025 AIMN Editorial 5
By Alasdair Black The media is trying to explain the Liberal Party’s failure in South Australia, in response to Vincent Tarzia stepping down as leader on Friday – a move that will see him personally […]
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Politics

The Moral Hazard of Being US Deputy-Sheriff

6 December 2025 David Tyler 6
In a secure room in Washington last week, Australian officials watched what the world would soon see. A small Venezuelan fisherman’s tinnie drifts, already incinerated by a first missile. Two survivors cling to a piece […]
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Politics

“Kill Everybody”: War Crimes and Pete Hegseth’s Lust for Blood

5 December 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4
Pete Hegseth, the soap opera styled US Secretary of Defense, sports a questionable sanity. His behaviour before generals is the stuff of low comedy. His mania about sending narco-traffickers making passage on the sea from […]
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Environment

Do High-Consumption Lifestyles Violate Our Ethical Obligations to the Planet?

5 December 2025 Roger Chao 5
In early November, the 30th meeting of the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Belém, Brazil, concluded after a fractious week of debate over the fate of fossil fuels, justice for vulnerable nations […]
Bitcoin symbol with rising stock chart background.
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The Digital Leviathan: How Cryptocurrencies Enable Surveillance and Vulture Capitalism

5 December 2025 Dr Andrew Klein, PhD 2
The promise of cryptocurrency was one of liberation – freedom from central banks, from government oversight, from the traditional financial gatekeepers. In reality, it has become the ultimate tool for those very gatekeepers, perfected into […]
Man and surveillance footage of a speeding boat.
Politics

First strike on small, unarmed boat off Venezuela, not second, makes Trump and Hegseth war criminals

5 December 2025 AIMN Editorial 6
By Walt Zlotow Some sensible US congresspersons, government officials, pundits and others are furious over reports Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a second strike on a mysterious little boat off Venezuela September 2 that killed […]

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