The Australian Independent Media Network

The AIMN is an online platform that provides a space for citizen and public interest journalists to engage in and contribute to independent media, focusing on politics, democracy, environment, and identity.

  • About The AIMN
  • Admin Login
  • Corrections Policy
  • Disclaimer
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms & Conditions
HomeAuthorsDr James Moylan

Articles by Dr James Moylan

About 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).
Angler holding fishing rod by lake
AIM Extra

Beaten-up by the news? Go fishing.

11 July 2026 Dr James Moylan 4
Recently, after just a single news bulletin I feel beaten-up. It commonly prompts an emotional journey that is similar to that of a ping-pong ball in a cyclone. Koalas dying – whack – Trump – […]
Man reading newspaper, thought bubble "This is deep
AIM Extra

Not engaging in philosophy (an extract from the writer’s diary)

8 July 2026 Dr James Moylan 5
I am on the verge of getting all philosophical in public. Which is not the way that this relationship should unfold. As a columnist I am supposed to highlight a problem and then provide a […]
Person on beach sunset with 'Justice is mine'
AIM Extra

Hungry for Some Justice

1 July 2026 Dr James Moylan 0
I was hungry for some justice – the best that I could find, perhaps a pound of jurisprudence from a great judicial mind? I started in a ghetto in a forgotten broken mile it was […]
Australian flag with quote about immigrants
Politics

We dance best when we all dance on the same dancefloor

30 June 2026 Dr James Moylan 9
While all people are deserving of equal treatment under the law, and everyone should be treated by our political and civil institutions in a like fashion, that does not extend to the realm of ideas. […]
Woman speaking in parliamentary chamber holding paper
Politics

Pauline Hanson is a right-wing clown leading a circus of distraction

24 June 2026 Dr James Moylan 11
Even on triple J the other day the conversation was all about the rise of right-wing politics. However, I suggest that the story that is being celebrated in our papers and on our airwaves might […]
People speaking with Sky News and Fox logos
Politics

Lights – Camera – Bigpictureshit!

15 June 2026 Dr James Moylan 9
Observation 1 – (I will eventually get to the point) Many Aussies have decided to outsource their thinking to third parties. Consequently, there are an awful lot of dumb schmucks lurking around water fountains. Therefore […]
Green YES sign over cannabis leaf background
AIM Extra

Driving, Cannabis & Unicorns

14 June 2026 Dr James Moylan 15
How many destitute cannabis addicts have you seen littering the streetscape recently? How many hard smoking cannabis users have you come across that frequently go home after a night smoking cones to beat their wife […]
Man draped in Australian flag hugging pole
Politics

Maaate! You look like a dork

9 May 2026 Dr James Moylan 6
We all talk about politics a lot and while it is deathly boring at times, we persist because it is important shit. Who runs what, how, and why, are all biggies. But the language and […]
Man wearing hat and medals at podium
Your Say

Lest we forget

28 April 2026 Dr James Moylan 10
Uncle Ray Minniecon is an Aboriginal Elder and a veteran. As he was presiding over the Welcome to Country ceremony at the Anzac Dawn service in Sydney, a small group of people began booing. His […]
Man examining face in bathroom mirror
AIM Extra

The big human brain

15 April 2026 Dr James Moylan 41
The whole proposition of a massive hunk of brain-flesh that is capable of introspective reflection, inside a body, inside a culture, doing the washing up, while shouting at the kids, is ludicrous. But there it […]
Stonehenge under a partly cloudy sky.
AIM Extra

The irresistible cultural imperative: how tourism keeps reinventing society

7 April 2026 Dr James Moylan 0
Tourism and civilisation are intimately linked. But tourism is much more robust. Warfare, drought, famine, earthquake, and tsunami are just minor inconveniences. The Russian, Mongol, and Qing dynasties, like the Persian, Roman, English, and American […]
Chimpanzee at bar with woman smiling.
AIM Extra

The greedy ape: why catastrophe is inevitable

5 April 2026 Dr James Moylan 1
Part 1: The chimpanzee sex conundrum When you banish the rather odd concept of humankind as a golden twig protruding from the very top of the tree of life, and instead start comparing and contrasting […]
People at immigration counter with officer pointing.
AIM Extra

Living the dream – the ‘Lumpenproletariat’

3 April 2026 Dr James Moylan 4
The One Nation ‘Policy Development’ officer was suffering through yet another minor existential crisis. At one o’clock in the morning, seated at his desk, at home, with the rest of the world securely locked outside, […]
Clergyman comforting patient in hospital bed.
AIM Extra

The good book is not good medicine

2 April 2026 Dr James Moylan 12
I was a very crook 16-year-old kid, lying in a cot in the detox ward of the Bridge Centre in Sydney, when a Captain of the Salvation army pulled a chair up to my bed […]
Newspaper headline about Chinese submarine strategy.
Politics

George Orwell was an optimist

25 July 2025 Dr James Moylan 2
As a species, we have come a long way. It all started with a stone age. Then after a bronze, iron, industrial and plastic period, we stumbled into an information age. All of which illustrates […]

Posts pagination

1 2 3 »

Recent Comments

  • Anon. E. Mouse on All hail Marco Rubio, Potentate of Venezuela
  • Thommo on Why Australia’s new office marks a turning point for AI governance
  • Thommo on A Word from the Commission
  • corvus boreus on Pauline Hanson’s Trump embrace is electoral suicide
  • Andrew Smith on Albanese rolls out the red carpet to data centre ‘energy vampires’, delays meaningful legislation
  • Steve on The Hidden Dimension of Learning – When Understanding Becomes a Prelude to Control
  • Thommo on The Hidden Dimension of Learning – When Understanding Becomes a Prelude to Control
  • Canguro on The Hidden Dimension of Learning – When Understanding Becomes a Prelude to Control
  • Thommo on Shag, Marry, Date debacle
  • Clakka on The Hidden Dimension of Learning – When Understanding Becomes a Prelude to Control

Search The AIMN

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 3,320 other subscribers.

Copyright © 2026 | MH Magazine WordPress Theme by MH Themes