Lucy Hamilton, Author at The Australian Independent Media Network

Screenshot from Sky News Australia complaining that social cohesion is under threat here.

Decoding “social cohesion”

30 August 2025 Lucy Hamilton 7

While “social cohesion” can convey the benign sense of societies working to include rather than marginalise, to develop wholesome “collective political actions aiming at creating a coherent society”, that is not how the concept is […]

The graphic used by the AJA/QJC/MIC groups to attack the Greens, using Hindu and Iranian figures alongside a Jewish one.

Front groups working with Zionist actors are promoting Islamophobia

9 May 2025 Lucy Hamilton 50

Australian front groups have been working to promote the idea that the Greens make many cultural identities less safe. Zionists are incorporating Hindu and Iranian figures, depicting a fake “threat.” Wendy Bacon and Yaakov Aharon […]

The headline of the prequel to this essay, when I argued that the Coalition has a man problem.

It’s a man problem, people

30 April 2025 Lucy Hamilton 7

Australia’s rightwing Coalition is approaching this weekend’s federal election with deeply patriarchal and traditionalist attitudes, and the commentariat is still describing this as a woman problem. Australia’s media traditions, not to mention our clickbait present, […]

Tim Wilson speaks at the Australian Libertarian Society and Australian Taxpayers' Alliance 2015 conference on "property rights as human rights."

Tim Wilson, secretive money and “think” tanks. Australia’s democracy is at stake.

18 April 2025 Lucy Hamilton 15

Australians should remember, as the election approaches, that Tim Wilson was shortlisted in 2015 for the US-based Atlas Network’s most prestigious prize. He and his team at the Atlas Network-partner the Institute of Public Affairs […]

Man speaking with "Danger is Coming" text.

Voting for the LNP could actually shorten your life

10 April 2025 Lucy Hamilton 4

There’s a reason that the Atlas Network’s “think” tanks – and their political partners – around the world target education. They claim it is because public school teachers are inclusive, or “woke”. That label is […]

A part of the website for the conference.

“The Australian”: tool of the Alliance for Responsible Leadership?

19 March 2025 Lucy Hamilton 64

The Australian has made itself the newspaper of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship. This reflects the fact that Australia’s Right is part of a transnational network of networkers. It also conveys that these figures aim […]

Detail from the cover of the collected essay.

Alex Carey: a century of business taking the risk out of democracy

4 March 2025 Lucy Hamilton 7

Jeff Bezos recently announced that the Washington Post would henceforth dedicate its op/ed pages to “free markets and personal liberties”. His Whole Foods business also asked the National Labor Relations Board to “set aside the […]

Albrechtsen headline in The Australian saying that a Human Rights Act would lead to judicial activism.

“Activist Judges:” around the world “conservative” activists are trying to nobble the law

24 February 2025 Lucy Hamilton 2

One of the key strategies used by the transnational authoritarian Right to subvert democratic projects is “playing the refs.” Their strategists work to discredit journalists and media platforms that hold them to account. They tarnish […]

Australians for Responsible Citizenship and NatCon: networks of networks

17 February 2025 Lucy Hamilton 10

It is easier to understand the constant war drums in support of Israel in Australia’s rightwing spaces if one pays attention to the new nationalism: it unites nationalist projects from the West, Israel and India […]

Screenshot from the undercover journalists' report on Russell Vought from the Centre for Climate Reporting

Russell Vought and the junktanks that turned the 2021 insurrection into a coup

15 February 2025 Lucy Hamilton 8

In assessing which Trump appointment is more dangerous, Russell Vought freshly confirmed to helm the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is a contender for the worst. Vought wrote one of the chapters from Project […]

Magazine cover with headline about deportation.

Why is Atlas going after Prince Harry?

9 February 2025 Lucy Hamilton 4

Wonkette pointed out today that the key force trying to have Prince Harry deported from the US is the Heritage Foundation. That is the Atlas Network punishing someone who is irritating an affiliate: Rupert Murdoch. […]

Is “Bad Faith”‘s Council for National Policy the Atlas Network’s half-brother?

6 February 2025 Lucy Hamilton 41

The Council for National Policy is the ultra-secret body tracked in the documentary Bad Faith. Are the Mont Pelerin Society fingerprints there just by chance? The chaos that is erupting from the people around Trump […]

Person holding large cross near dome building.

Australians must not ignore the Religious right’s global warnings 2.0

31 January 2025 Lucy Hamilton 15

This essay was first published at the AIMN in September 2022. Since then the world has changed dramatically. Much of that change has been strategically orchestrated by networks of operations, with substantial funding from fossil […]

Part of the chart of Atlas Network juntanks available to scholarship holders via Mannkal.

The Atlas Network talking about itself

26 January 2025 Lucy Hamilton 16

There is much to learn about the Atlas Network from one of Ron Manners’ Mannkal Economic Education Foundation newsletters. This Mannkal newsletter was issued in April 2015. The project continues unabated. The Atlas Network is […]

The Liberal Party, Moira Deeming and political Christianity

25 January 2025 Lucy Hamilton 19

It is desirable and appropriate that politicians with a religious commitment are elected to office in Australian politics, while also at times keeping separate their professional roles from private convictions for the sake of constituents […]

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