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 – Roswell is American born though he was quite young when his family moved to Australia. He holds a Bachelor of Science and spent most of his working life in Canberra. His interests include anything that has an unsolved mystery about it, politics (Australian and American), science, history, and travelling. Roswell is our SEO guru so most of his work at The AIMN is in an admin or moderator role, though he does produce the occasional article.

 

Tess Lawrence – Tess is Contributing editor-at-large for Independent Australia.

 

 

 

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 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.

 

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