About The AIMN

Founded by the owners Michael and Carol Taylor on January 2, 2013, The Australian Independent Media Network is a platform for public interest journalists to write and engage in an independent media environment.

The AIMN is primarily a site that provides an analysis on current affairs covering politics, environment and social justice issues, as well as articles on Indigenous Australia and history. Most of our regular writers are experts in their field and speak with authority.

We are not a news site, however media releases that are sent to us for publication are also sent to the mainstream media organisations who publish them as news. The AIMN, however, publishes them for public interest.

Please feel free to join in the discussions on our articles.

We also welcome articles from our readers, and these can be submitted to admin@theaimn.com.

Meet the team

 

Michael Taylor – Co-founder and Managing Editor at The AIMN. Michael is a retired Public Servant. His interests include Australian and US politics, history, travel, and Indigenous Australia. Michael holds a BA in Aboriginal Affairs Administration, a BA (Honours) in Aboriginal Studies, and a Diploma of Government.

 

Carol Taylor – Co-founder and Assistant Managing Editor at The AIMN. Carol is a former teacher (ed psych) and a disability advocate. Carol also studied law at SCU. Although Carol has written  a number of articles for The AIMN, she is now mainly involved in admin and promotion. She maintains a strong interest in politics, social justice, history, travelling and the arts.

 

Rossleigh – Rossleigh is a writer, director and education futurist. As a writer, his plays include “The Charles Manson Variety Hour”, “Pastiche”, “Snap!”, “That’s Me In The Distance”, “48 Hours (without Eddie Murphy)”, and “A King of Infinite Space”. His acting credits include “Pinor Noir Noir” for “Short and Sweet” and carrying the coffin in “The Slap”. His ten minute play, “Y” won the 2013 Crash Test Drama Final. Rossleigh is also an admin and moderator at The AIMN.

 

John Lord – John has a strong interest in politics, especially the workings of a progressive democracy, together with social justice and the common good. He holds a Diploma in Fine Arts and enjoys portraiture, composing music, and writing poetry and short stories. He is also a keen amateur actor. Before retirement John ran his own advertising marketing business.

 

Lucy Hamilton – Lucy is Melbourne born and based. She studied humanities at Melbourne and Monash universities, until family duties killed her PhD project. She is immersed in studying the global democratic recession.

 

Binoy Kampmark – Dr Binoy Kampmark is a senior lecturer in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University. He was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. He is a contributing editor to CounterPunch and can be followed on X at @bkampmark.

 

Bert Hetebry– Bert is a retired teacher in society and environment, and history, holds a BA and Grad Dip Ed. Since retiring Bert has become an active member of his local ALP chapter, joined a local writer’s group, and started a philosophy discussion group. Bert is also part of a community art group – and does a bit of art himself – and has joined a Ukulele choir. “Life is to be lived, says Bert, “and I can honestly say that I have never experienced the contentment I feel now.”

 

Grumpy Geezer – Having been released from the constraints of the red in tooth and claw capitalist running dogs by retirement the grumpy one now expresses opinions that would have previously limited his career options. (The pseudonym is used simply to avoid familial arguments with Tory-voting kin.)

A loathing of Tory politicians is supplemented by an equal disdain for bad language – the corporatese and the flim-flam of sales spruikers, marketers, spin doctors, bureaucrats and politicians. Red-penning the tosh from such types was an upside to having to work with them.

The crankiness is offset by a love of motorbicycles, the occasional glass of claret too many and the sun glittering off a blue swell just down the road. Could possibly be identified from the ash down his shirtfront and the egg in his beard.

 

Noel Wauchope – I am a long-term nuclear-free activist. I believe that everyone, however non expert, can, and should, have an opinion.

 

 

Roswell – American by birth, Roswell has a strong interest in both American and Australian politics, as well as science as well as science (he holds a degree in the field of science), history, computing, travelling, and just about everything or anything that has an unsolved mystery about it. As well as writing for The AIMN, Roswell does most of the site’s admin and moderating.

 

Tess Lawrence – is a broadcaster, journalist advocate and specialist in ethical media services and crisis management and consultant in media strategy. She has taught at a number of institutions, including Deakin University in ethics and new reporting and is a forensic researcher and analyst.

 

 

Terence Mills

 

 

 

Dr John Smith

 

 

 

Dr James Moylan – Dr James Moylan – LLB (Hon), BA (Culture), Dr of Phil (Law, SCU) – lives in Lismore, NSW. Dr JiMM has variously been a skid row alcoholic (age 13-27), a Journalist, a Sugar Train Driver, and a researcher on the heritage age god and mineral fields in central Queensland. He has also run a Public Relations firm (Radio Mango Productions, Mackay), has been admitted to the roll of legal practitioners as a solicitor (Qld, 2014), was the President of (the short lived) independent Student Union at Southern Cross University (LEXUS – 2011/2), and is one of the co-founders of the HEMP Party in Australia (along with Micheal Balderstone). Dr JiMM has been happily married to the same gorgeous lady (Sharon) for more than three decades and has one adult daughter (Tayla).

 

David Tyler – (AKA Urban Wronski) was born in England, raised in New Zealand and an Australian resident since 1979. Urban Wronski grew up conflicted about his own national identity and continues to be deeply mistrustful of all nationalism, chauvinism, flags, politicians and everything else which divides and obscures our common humanity. He has always been enchanted by nature and by the extraordinary brilliance of ordinary men and women and the genius, the power and the poetry that is their vernacular. Wronski is now a full-time freelance writer who lives with his partner and editor Shay and their chooks, near the Grampians in rural Victoria and he counts himself the luckiest man alive. A former teacher of all ages and stages, from Tertiary to Primary, for nearly forty years, he enjoyed contesting the corporatisation of schooling to follow his own natural instinct for undifferentiated affection, approval and compassion for the young.

 

David Ayliffe – David has had an interesting career. Passionate about social justice he got waylaid in a fundamentalist cult for some years. Ended up heading it after “God” died, and then led a process that saw it wound up and “God” denounced. Wrote about it in “My Brother’s Eyes” with my brother John. (Available on Spotify and other streams, paperback from David, Amazon wants $70 for copies they don’t have!) Podcaster of No Sex Please – I’m Religious, and run a disability business. Worried about fascism in the world and working hard to get my global children’s kindness movement off the ground. www.zorzle.org

Wondering what to do with my spare time.

 

Jon Chesterson – Jon was born in London, schooled in Sussex and Wales, migrated to Sydney in 1988. Career in mental health, nursing, health care management and education. Currently retired but not brain dead. Occasional writer for the AIM Network, touch of critique and socio-political satire, creative writing and publishing poetry. Family man with grown up daughters and grandchildren. Interests ranging from humanities and social justice to climate change, protecting the planet from reckless destruction to a more than idle lifelong fascination in astronomy and palaeontology. Found sanctuary in the Blue Mountains, a place that reminds us we have a mortal responsibility to inspire in each other good stewardship – this place is our only home in the cosmos to hand on to our children’s children.

 

Michael Springer – Michael was first admitted to the Supreme Court of Queensland in 2003 and was entered on the Registrar of Practitioners in the High Court of Australia in 2005. Michael practiced as a criminal defence barrister up to 2010.

 

 

George Theodoridis – George is a sample specimen of Aristotle’s ‘political animal’. He is saturated by politics and working, as did Plato, towards building a Kalipolis, a State where justice dominates.

He has translated all the extant plays of the 5th Century BC, Athenians, as well as the work of many Lyric poets and a few morsels from Plato’s lush table, all of which he has placed up on the web for everyone to download, to study or to read at their leisure. His thirteen volumes of the Greek plays and a book of his own poetry, Marble Seasons are available from Amazon.

 

Roger Chao – Roger writes across the major debates shaping contemporary Australia, examining political conflict, social change, cultural tension, and the policy choices that define national life. His work draws on a wide constellation of ideas, disciplines, and global perspectives to illuminate the deeper patterns beneath the headlines.
Roger’s commentary connects immediate events to larger social currents, offering analysis that challenges orthodoxies, reframes familiar debates, and encourages a more reflective public conversation. His writing is guided by a belief that ideas matter, not as abstractions, but as forces that shape how societies understand themselves and decide their futures.

 

Lachlan McKenzie – I believe in championing Equity & Inclusion. With over three decades of experience in healthcare, I’ve witnessed the power of compassion and innovation to transform lives. Now, I’m channeling that same drive to foster a more inclusive Australia – and world – where every voice is heard, every barrier dismantled, and every community thrives. Let’s build fairness, one story at a time.

Though I’m not a junior journalist, I’m so pleased to be an author on the AIMN, a newbie amongst great authors and editors. Also a special mention to Troll who has been an inspiration in exploring ideas and truths. I do hope readers enjoy a little snark and humour at times, as I certainly do.

 

Denis Bright – Denis is a registered teacher and a member of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA). Denis has recent postgraduate qualifications in journalism, public policy and international relations. He is interested in advancing pragmatic policies compatible with contemporary globalisation.

 

Andrew Klein  – Andrew is a retired chaplain, an intrepid traveler, and an observer of all around him. University and life educated. Director of Human Rights Organization.

 

 

Regular Guest Writers