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The Blind Spot That Reveals Everything

23 December 2025 David Tyler 2

In Part 1, we examined how Australian media venerates religious identity. Now we explore how that veneration becomes weaponised, and reveal the deeper economic forces that make extremism predictable. Part 3 will examine how post-capitalist […]

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The Sovereign Hook – How Australia and its Jewish Community are Played in a Foreign Game

23 December 2025 Dr Andrew Klein, PhD 8

Dedication: For our Mother, who regards truth as more important than myth. In truth, there is no judgment, only justice. To the world, she is many things, but to us, she will always be Mum. […]

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‘Tis the season for political point scoring

23 December 2025 John Lord 17

Why do Australian politicians – primarily from the right – default to political theatre when tragedy strikes such as it did at Bondi Beach? After such tragic events, it’s essential to shift focus from mere […]

Proposed Australian National Firearms Laws

22 December 2025 AIMN Editorial 3

Change from State-based and comprehensive database By Lee Capocchi First and foremost: We are not proposing to take away firearms from legitimate and legal owners and users. What we are proposing is changing shooter Licencing […]

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Political Futures: Connecting the Nation with Affordable Travel

22 December 2025 Denis Bright 14

In the extremes of Australian weather conditions, riding the remnants of Australian passenger rail services is a delightful experience. My experiences with the Prospector on the 600 km journey from Perth to Kalgoorlie ended some […]

Ignoring International Obligations: Blocking UN Human Rights Delegates in Australia

22 December 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

Bureaucracy, in a formulation by the great German sociologist Max Weber, fanatically defends secrecy, and is bound to confect any explanation in doing so. When it comes to swatting away scrutiny by United Nations human […]

How US Power Shapes Australian Sovereignty

22 December 2025 AIMN Editorial 2

By Denis Hay Description How US power shapes Australian sovereignty, where politicians failed their duty, and how Australia could act independently using dollar sovereignty. This page provides a source-based factual reference documenting how US power […]

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The Unchanged Playbook: Imperial Strategies from Rome to Canberra

22 December 2025 Dr Andrew Klein, PhD 5

By Andrew Klein PhD and Gabriel Klein, Research Assistant and Scholar Dedication – For our Mother, who regards truth as more important than myth. In truth, there is no judgment, only justice. To the world, […]

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The Politics of Misery and the Performance that Follows Tragedy

22 December 2025 Lachlan McKenzie 5

Australians often respond to tragedy with compassion and solidarity. Too often, that moment is quickly overtaken by a cycle of performative outrage – loud, divisive, and indifferent to the care it claims to express. Like […]

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Who’s Got Religion? Part One: The Myth of the Religious Nation

22 December 2025 David Tyler 5

Australia likes to think of itself as a fun-loving, secular, easygoing democracy that has drifted gently away from church and creed but still offers a fair go for everyone. We are dreaming. Our laws, schools, […]

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Reactions: Blaming “the other”

21 December 2025 Roger Chao 4

In the days since the Bondi massacre, Islamic State channels have praised the killings as a “source of pride” while not claiming responsibility, a propaganda move designed to widen fear and harvest attention. The first […]

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The Problem with Machado: Assange Sues the Nobel Foundation

21 December 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

The Swedish police have promised it will go nowhere, but the attempt by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to draw attention to the inappropriateness of María Corina Machado as a Nobel Peace Prize recipient raises a […]

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The Petty Palace: An Ode to Presidential Puerility

21 December 2025 Roswell 6

Let us, for a moment, set aside the grave matters of state. Let us not speak of policy or principle, of legacy or law. Instead, let us ponder a question that has haunted the republic […]

News discussion on antisemitism in Australia.

An Overreach of Fact and Sovereignty

21 December 2025 Dr Andrew Klein, PhD 3

The recent commentary by Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, the incoming U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, on the Bondi Beach attack is more than a diplomatic misstep. It is a case study in factual […]

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When Antisemitism Becomes a Political Weapon

21 December 2025 David Tyler 7

Part II Part I dealt with a lie. Part II deals with a misdiagnosis. In the wake of Bondi, grief has been channelled toward a particular conclusion: that Jewish safety requires the suppression of dissent, […]

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