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From riverbank to ruin

29 October 2025 AIMN Editorial 6

Every now and then a comment lands that stops the scroll dead. Under David Tyler’s recent article, Australia’s Environmental Policy Crisis: A Closer Look, reader Canguro didn’t just reminisce – he delivered a miniature elegy […]

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POLITICS IN DEMOCRACIES: The art of compromise… or is it?

29 October 2025 Bert Hetebry 1

In other words, who or what are most important? Me and the platform I was voted on, or the opportunity to belittle and demean people who are opposed to my way of thinking, opposed to […]

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Mr President, take our critical minerals: Albanese in the White House

28 October 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

The October 20 performance saw few transgressions and many feats of compliance. As a guest in the White House, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was in no mood to be combative, and US President Donald […]

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“Shameful”: Study shows only a third of Australia’s mature forests remain

28 October 2025 AIMN Editorial 0

Australian Conservation Foundation Media Release New analysis from the Australian Conservation Foundation has highlighted the enormous scale of deforestation in Australia, exacerbated by ‘deforestation loopholes’ and weak nature laws that provide special carve outs to […]

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Federal Pressure to Privatise: The Hidden Cost

28 October 2025 AIMN Editorial 0

By Denis Hay Description Federal pressure to privatise through funding deals forces states to comply. Learn how this reshaped Australia’s public assets. 🎧 Prefer to listen to this article? Press play Introduction: Canberra’s Hidden Hand […]

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The Captor State

28 October 2025 Dr Andrew Klein, PhD 6

The Captor State: How Oligarchic and Imperial Control Drives Australia’s Political Duopoly Toward Extremism The sickness in Australian politics is often diagnosed as a stagnant duopoly. This is a symptom, not the cause. The Labor-Coalition […]

Rare Earths processing – a backdoor way into radioactive waste dumping in Australia?

28 October 2025 Noel Wauchope 4

Joy and delight! Australia is to have a booming rare earths industry, mining and PROCESSING – jobs, jobs jobs! Money, money money! And we can stick it up to China, confronting its near monopoly on […]

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Why would anyone want to move to Trump’s America?

27 October 2025 Michael Taylor 12

It’s a curious kind of arrogance that leads some Americans – particularly those in the Make America Great Again camp – to believe the rest of the world lies awake at night, pining for a […]

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The Sky That Remembers the Dead

27 October 2025 Roger Chao 1

I woke to the sound of the sky being rent, like a curtain too heavy to mend. My pillow was dust and my blanket was fear, as I prayed for the nightmare to end. The […]

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Australia’s Environmental Policy Crisis: A Closer Look

27 October 2025 David Tyler 13

Labor’s Eco Renaissance: Destroying the Joint, Sensitively As federal parliament resumes its familiar variety show of “Consensus or Catastrophe”, the Labor government unveils another environmental revolution; provided it doesn’t trouble its donors in hi-vis or […]