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Why Australia Got Fat: Obesity and Social Justice Connection

18 January 2026 AIMN Editorial 5

By Denis Hay Description Obesity and social justice collide. Discover how corporate greed and policy failures fuel Australia’s growing health crisis. 🎧 Prefer to listen to this article? Press play Introduction: The Forgotten Australia Brisbane, […]

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Operation ChatGPT – a fair go too far (Part 1)

17 January 2026 AIMN Editorial 0

By Alicia Lucas OpenAI released ChatGPT in Australia and elsewhere in 2022. OpenAI had by then gone from a totally non-profit company to operating ChatGPT in a profit subsidiary of the non-profit company. OpenAI seems […]

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The Danger When Crisis Becomes Theatre: Why Australians Are Demanding Better Leadership

17 January 2026 AIMN Editorial 8

How political opportunism, bad faith accusations, and rushed legislation replaced genuine leadership after the Bondi tragedy By Sue Barrett Like many Australians, I have been watching the political response to the Bondi tragedy with growing […]

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Why Critical Thinking is Missing in Schools

17 January 2026 AIMN Editorial 6

By Denis Hay Description Why critical thinking is missing in schools weakens democracy, how league tables distort education, and why Finland chose a better path. Introduction: A Quiet Educational Failure Critical thinking is missing in […]

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Trump’s foreign policy: “I don’t need international law because I’m not looking to hurt people”

17 January 2026 AIMN Editorial 10

By Walt Zlotow In dismissing international law, Trump went further and proclaimed regarding any limit on his authority to engage in military action, “the only limit is my own mind, my own morality… the only […]

Trump’s Precipice

16 January 2026 AIMN Editorial 6

By Christopher Kennedy A year or so on from my second article, concerning a $5 bet I hold that the USA was going to fall into civil war under Trump; I sit on the precipice of […]

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Those ads – the annoying ones – they are not ours. But here’s what you can do about them

15 January 2026 AIMN Editorial 18

We’ve heard you. Many of you have told us you avoid clicking through to our site from Facebook, Threads or X because the first thing you are greeted with are large, intrusive full-page ads that […]

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100 days into ceasefire Gaza still deliberately deprived of water as aid groups forced to scavenge under illegal blockade

14 January 2026 AIMN Editorial 4

Oxfam Australia Media Release Oxfam and partners restore limited water access for 156,000 amid near-total water and sanitation infrastructure collapse. 100 days into the ceasefire announcement, in a week that has seen more severe weather […]

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New hate speech laws must balance free speech and protection

14 January 2026 AIMN Editorial 5

RMIT University Media Release Parliament has been recalled early to debate the Labor government’s new hate speech bill. An RMIT expert says questions remain about how to protect communities without limiting free speech, and explains […]

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Why Career Politicians Block Real Reform in Australia

14 January 2026 AIMN Editorial 8

By Denis Hay Description Why career politicians block reform in Australia, even when voters demand change, and how incentives, not personalities, shape outcomes. Introduction: The Reform That Never Arrives Across Australia, a familiar pattern […]

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Aftermath of the Bondi massacre

14 January 2026 AIMN Editorial 5

By Antony Loewenstein Welcome to 2026. The year has started with a US invasion and kidnapping in Venezuela, ongoing Israeli killings in Gaza, surging violence in the West Bank, huge protests in Iran against its […]

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Is the U.S. preparing to install another Shah to run Iran as a U.S. puppet?

13 January 2026 AIMN Editorial 4

By Walt Zlotow Nationwide anti-government protests are wracking Iran with over 500 killed and 10,000 detained. The U.S. political establishment is ecstatic about the possibility of regime change of the hated Iranian Islamic government which […]

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Why Australia is Outsourcing Essential Services

12 January 2026 AIMN Editorial 10

By Denis Hay Description Government outsourcing essential services shifts public money to profit while access and outcomes decline. Introduction Outsourcing essential services has quietly reshaped daily life in Australia. This shift toward outsourcing essential […]

The Tacos of Tegucigalpa

12 January 2026 AIMN Editorial 8

By James Moore “Americans are benevolently ignorant of the rest of the world.” (George Bernard Shaw) Just a few years after Ronald Reagan had become President, an organization of U.S. Hispanic political leaders began pondering […]

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Senate Republicans edging toward War Powers Resolution to curb Trump’s crazed Venezuelan war

12 January 2026 AIMN Editorial 0

By Walt Zlotow In a rare pushback to one of Trump’s many illegal wars, five Senate Republicans joined all 47 Democrats to advance a War Powers Resolution to prevent President Trump from launching another attack […]

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