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Chris Breen for NSW Teachers Federation President

4 November 2025 AIMN Editorial 0

By Jane Salmon Who is Chris Breen? Priya’s Loving Parent – and a Dedicated Educator Public schools are stretched to breaking point. Class sizes balloon, workloads rise, and teachers are asked to perform miracles on […]

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When empathy has a guest list

4 November 2025 Michael Taylor 8

On November 2, aboard Air Force One, Donald Trump was asked about King Charles stripping Prince Andrew of his last remaining royal title. The president’s response was swift and unambiguous: “I feel very badly… It’s […]

Building the Cage: How Labor Built Neoliberalism and Called it Partnership (Part 1)

4 November 2025 David Tyler 15

How Labor Built Neoliberalism and Betrayed the Workers The Australian Labor Party has lost its way. Once the party of the ordinary worker, the champion of fair wages and decent conditions, it has become just […]

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The Silicon Thirst: When Data Drinks the World Dry

4 November 2025 Dr Andrew Klein, PhD 4

We live in an age of digital miracles, where intelligence is artificial and clouds are not in the sky, but in warehouses. Yet, this ethereal realm has a staggering physical appetite, one that is quietly […]

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Farmers speak out on Net Zero – Key facts on climate and pollution reduction goals

3 November 2025 AIMN Editorial 3

Farmers for Climate Action Media Release In light of recent events and on behalf of its 8,400 farmer members, Farmers for Climate Action points out some key facts. The cost of climate change is enormous. […]

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Imagining Australia as a New Republic – and a Better Nation for us all (Part 3)

3 November 2025 Lachlan McKenzie 6

Imagining Australia as a New Republic – Part 5: Protecting Sovereignty and Transparency Protecting Sovereignty and Transparency In the last part we explored how fairness and dignity become the foundation of the republic’s economy. Now […]

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Nationals’ net zero backflip would escalate disaster costs for regional communities

3 November 2025 AIMN Editorial 6

Climate Council Media Release The Nationals’ decision to ditch the net zero position it signed up to in 2021 as part of the Coalition will be costly for regional communities and farmers being hit by […]

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Draining Practices: Amazon, Water Consumption and Data Centres

3 November 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

Amazon, ruthless, mean spirited, soulless and wedded to the obscene profit margin, is also in the business of habitual deception. When it comes to the use of water for its thirsty data centres, this is […]

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The Ballad of the Feathered Front

3 November 2025 Roger Chao 1

In the year of nineteen thirty-two, when soldiers yearned for glory past, Their khaki creased with Empire’s pride, their bullets forged to last, They faced no foe from foreign land, no sabres from the east, […]

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Political Reform in Australia: We Can Break Free and Thrive

3 November 2025 AIMN Editorial 7

By Denis Hay Description Urgent call: why political reform in Australia matters for ordinary Australians and how you can spark real change. 🎧 Prefer to listen to this article? Press play Introduction The truth is, […]

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Israel and the Mercerian Gambit

3 November 2025 Dr Andrew Klein, PhD 0

The Mercerian Gambit: A Timeless Strategy of Control and Its Inevitable Reckoning A recurring, brutal pattern stains the pages of history: a dominant power elevates a minority group to act as enforcers against another subject […]

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Hegseth to Congress: “I have no idea…”

3 November 2025 AIMN Editorial 7

By Walt Zlotow Hegseth might as well have told Congress that: “I have no idea who I’m murdering on the high seas… and I don’t care.” Pete Hegseth’s War Dept held a briefing Wednesday […]

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Hope and Humility in a Bag

2 November 2025 AIMN Editorial 4

By James Moore “Hunger in America is not a matter of scarcity but of political will. We have the food. We have the programs. What we lack is the national commitment to end the suffering.” […]

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Don Farrell: The Godfather of Business as Usual

2 November 2025 David Tyler 5

This is not the profile of a Labor minister. This is a portrait of embedded capitalism in clerical collar. Jason Koutsoukis’ latest federal government puff piece in The Saturday Paper, “Meet the man who controls […]

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All we are saying is give peace a chance

2 November 2025 Bert Hetebry 3

One, Two, Three, Four! Everybody’s talking about Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism This-ism, that-ism, ism ism ism All we are saying is give peace a chance All we are saying is give peace a […]

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