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Australia’s New Censorship Is Voluntary – and That’s Why It’s Dangerous

4 December 2025 David Tyler 7

When journalists internalise the state, the state no longer needs to silence them. Australia has discovered the most polite form of censorship ever devised. No jackboots, no warrants, no midnight raids; just a quiet conversation, […]

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How Australia Can Smash Monetary Myths

4 December 2025 AIMN Editorial 4

By Denis Hay Description: Smash Monetary Myths Think Australia must “live within its means”? Discover how monetary myths block progress – and how truth could unlock a fairer economy for all. 🎧 Prefer to […]

Political Futures: More United Front Possibilities in 2026?

4 December 2025 Denis Bright 10

The year is ending on a remarkably positive note for Australia’s majority Labor Government. The political finales include the passage of the environmental reform package and the implementation of controls on access to selected social […]

Stand By Your Ban: A Post-Truth Reflection

4 December 2025 David Tyler 8

Hemingway knew bankruptcy intimately; both financial and moral. “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asks in The Sun Also Rises. “Two ways,” Mike replies. “Gradually and then suddenly.” He was talking about his own ruin, but […]

A Tale of Two Policies: The Allan Government’s ‘Tough on Crime’ Cynicism and Deafening Silence on Gaza

4 December 2025 Dr Andrew Klein, PhD 6

In the political theatre of Victoria, Premier Jacinta Allan’s government is staging a performance of profound contradiction. On the domestic stage, it is pushing a so-called “tough on crime” agenda, targeting vulnerable children for political […]

“It was just sex!”

3 December 2025 Bert Hetebry 6

A recent discussion about Andrew Mountbatten Windsor’s travails elicited the ‘it was just sex’ comment. The idea that a young woman, a girl really, a few years short of adulthood, had been groomed to be […]

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Experiments in Futility: Australia’s Teenage Social Media Ban Approaches

3 December 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 1

The messiness of Australia’s social media ban for those under 16 as part of the Online Safety Act 2021 is becoming more apparent by the day. From December 10 this year, as announced by the […]

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A line crossed, a standard shattered

3 December 2025 Michael Taylor 11

In the stark, unforgiving waters of the Caribbean, the United States crossed a line from which it will be difficult to return. That line was crossed with two chilling words allegedly spoken by Secretary of […]

‘Jaws’ impact may be wearing off as shark perceptions soften

3 December 2025 AIMN Editorial 1

UniSA Media Release Teeth. Ocean. Predator. These are the three most common words used to describe sharks, according to a new global survey published in Wildlife Research, eliciting 1000 different text responses. Despite fear driving […]

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The Shareholder’s Reckoning: A Simple Cure for Corporate Malfeasance

3 December 2025 Dr Andrew Klein, PhD 7

We watch as corporations pollute our rivers, exploit their workers, and ravage the environment, all while posting record profits. We lament this “corporate greed” as if it were a force of nature. It is not. […]

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Nothing says “I’m totally fine” like shouting it into the void 160 times

3 December 2025 Roswell 3

If you judged the situation only by President Trump’s 160 late-night Truth Social posts, you’d think something catastrophic had happened. A coup? A meteor? Someone using a paper straw in his presence? No one knew. […]

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Ban It and They’ll Thank Us Later: Labor’s Teen Social Media Panic

3 December 2025 David Tyler 0

While Finland invests twenty years teaching its children to think critically about media, Australia reaches for symbolic gestures and declares them progress. Within days, a new law regulating social media will take effect; one already […]

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Trump “wags the dog”

3 December 2025 AIMN Editorial 1

By Alasdair Black President Donald Trump is contemplating yet another oil war, who’dda thunk it, from the amoral, corrupt, money grubbing mammon-worshipping president? Trump is trying to “Wag the Dog,” to sleep walk the […]

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How Money is Created Without Printing Cash

2 December 2025 AIMN Editorial 16

By Denis Hay Description Learn how money is created in Australia, why most money is digital, and how both government spending and bank lending create new money. 🎧 Prefer to listen to this article? […]

New data shows hundreds of thousands are struggling with energy debts

2 December 2025 AIMN Editorial 7

Stop the Bill Shock Media Release New AER data shows hundreds of thousands are struggling with rising energy debts as Australians demand more government intervention to lower bills. An alliance of energy justice advocates is […]

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