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The seeing stones: Australia and its new CIA-made friend

12 December 2025 David Tyler 0

“Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.” Nikolai Berdyaev (Also, apparently, Palantir’s unofficial mission statement.) I. Enter the Magical Spy Orb, Stage Right In Tolkien’s Middle-earth, the palantír was a sort of medieval CCTV camera […]

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Listening to the Green Planet: Decoding the Silent Language of Life

12 December 2025 Dr Andrew Klein, PhD 2

For centuries, plant life was viewed as a passive backdrop to the animal kingdom. Groundbreaking research in the last fifty years has radically overturned this view, revealing a complex, dynamic world of communication and cooperation. […]

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RoboCare and the New Aged-Care Algorithm: What Senate Estimates, OPAN, the Media – and the Public – Need to Ask Next

12 December 2025 AIMN Editorial 10

By A Concerned Reader (This article draws only from publicly available information, media reports, Senate Estimates transcripts, and policy documents.) Introduction As the new Support at Home (SaH) program begins rolling out across Australia, an […]

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A Week of Peak Absurdity

11 December 2025 Roswell 4

Some presidents tackle healthcare, or infrastructure, or employment. Donald Trump, on the other hand, has spent this week doing battle against far more pressing threats: international law, typography, and the dangerous scourge of people noticing […]

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Schemes of Bankruptcy: The United Nations, Funding Dues and Human Rights

11 December 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3

The United Nations, in turning 80, has been berated, dismissed and libelled. In September, US President Donald Trump took a hearty swipe at the body’s alleged impotence. “What is the purpose of the United Nations?” […]

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Who Really Pulled the Rug? A Three-Part Investigation. Following the Money Behind Australian Men’s Anger

11 December 2025 AIMN Editorial 4

Part 1: The Evidence – How They Dismantled the Australian Fair Go By Sue Barrett This is Part 1 of a three-part investigation into who’s responsible for Australia’s declining living standards. Over the next three […]

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A Systemic Analysis: The Victoria Police Force – From ‘Constable by Consent’ to Political Instrument?

11 December 2025 Dr Andrew Klein, PhD 5

This article presents a critical analysis of the Victoria Police Force, tracing its philosophical and operational journey from its 19th-century foundations in British ‘policing by consent’ to its modern manifestation as a paramilitarised, politically leveraged […]

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What Trump wants to be remembered for – and what history will likely record

11 December 2025 Michael Taylor 7

If there’s one thing President Trump thinks about more than governing, it’s his legacy. He speaks of it constantly – the greatest, the strongest, the toughest, the most successful, the most historic. In Trump’s own […]

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How Labor Controls the Narrative to Shape Debate

10 December 2025 AIMN Editorial 12

By Denis Hay Description Labor controls the narrative about how Australians understand policy and public debate. Learn how it works and how to recognise it. 🎧 Prefer to listen to this article? Press play Introduction […]

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Perfectly Appropriate: Trump, Infantino and the FIFA Peace Prize

10 December 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

He craves it, and, to some extent, his desire was satisfied. President Donald Trump did get a peace prize. Not the peace prize picked out by self-important Norwegian non-entities, but the inaugural curiosity of FIFA, […]

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The Unseen Currents: How History Fuels Today’s Great Power Conflicts

10 December 2025 Dr Andrew Klein, PhD 4

The headlines shout of a new Cold War: NATO versus Russia, the West against China. The narrative presented is often one of unprovoked aggression by authoritarian states. But to understand the present, we must dare […]

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We need to Talk About Kevin

10 December 2025 David Tyler 11

We Need to Talk About Kevin: How Australia’s Men Became a Market for Rage The Demographic Stampede Something has shifted in the Coalition’s heartland, and it’s not policy. It’s identity. Australian men who once mumbled […]

Interest Rates, Tattslotto, Next Year’s Cup Winner And Premiership Predictions…

10 December 2025 Rossleigh 0

Not everything I write is satire… Sometimes I describe exactly what’s going on and other times I write satire… Of course, it’s not easy to tell the difference. I get that. And when it comes […]

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The Swedish Mirror

9 December 2025 AIMN Editorial 8

The Swedish Mirror: What Australia’s ‘Perfect Society’ Shows We’ve Chosen Not to Be By Peter Brown A friend recently shared a social media post from a Swede, listing the entitlements of everyday life: five weeks’ […]

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The Colby Review, AUKUS and Lopsided Commitments

9 December 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

In one of his many cutting observations about the fallibility of politicians, H. L. Mencken had this to say about the practical sort: “It is his business to convince the mob (a) that it is […]

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