Michael Taylor, Author at The Australian Independent Media Network

When two parties compete for the same voters

11 October 2026 Michael Taylor 11

The Liberals and Pauline Hanson: Allies Against Labor, Enemies on the Right? The Liberal Party and One Nation may share a desire to remove Labor from office, but when two parties compete for the same […]

When Justice Becomes a Spectacle

10 October 2026 Michael Taylor 15

When justice becomes a spectacle: the barbarity of livestreamed execution There are moments when a society reveals something about itself that is far more disturbing than the crime that prompted its response. The decision to […]

They’re gonna die out anyway (Part 4)

7 October 2026 Michael Taylor 4

From “Protection” to Segregation Continued from Part 3 The relationship between colonisers and Aboriginal people had increasingly come to be understood through the language of social evolution. The theory offered a convenient justification for European […]

They’re gonna die out anyway (Part 3)

6 October 2026 Michael Taylor 15

From Racial Prejudice to “Scientific” Proof Continued from Part 2 The use of “survival of the fittest” occurred during a period when Aboriginal people were hunted like animals, thousands died from introduced diseases, and many […]

They’re gonna die out anyway (Part 2)

5 October 2026 Michael Taylor 28

Darwin, Spencer and the “Survival of the Fittest” Continued from Part 1 In 1859, a book was published that would profoundly influence the way Europeans thought about life, humanity and, eventually, race: Charles Darwin’s On […]

They’re gonna die out anyway

4 October 2026 Michael Taylor 43

The Racist Heritage of Colonial Australia There has been much discussion in Australia about racism and the way it continues to manifest itself in our political and social landscape. Yet racism is hardly a recent […]

Would Pauline Hanson turn Australia into an Outsider?

29 September 2026 Michael Taylor 29

Former deputy prime minister Kim Beazley has issued a warning that is difficult to ignore. Australia, he says, risks becoming an “outsider” if One Nation enters government. Beazley is hardly an unfamiliar figure when it […]

Apparently, Democracy has a Comment Section

27 September 2026 Michael Taylor 10

I’ve noticed something increasingly common across social media in response when someone posts criticism of Anthony Albanese. “Just let him get on with his job.” It sounds reasonable enough. Until you stop and think about […]

Someone Wasn’t Reading the Room

24 September 2026 Michael Taylor 10

There are occasions in international politics when a photograph says rather more than the people in it probably intended. The United Nations General Assembly is one of those occasions. World leaders gather in New York […]

The Art of Being Brilliantly Stupid

22 September 2026 Michael Taylor 7

There is something almost impressive about Donald Trump. Not impressive in the conventional sense. Not because he possesses some extraordinary intellectual capacity or because he has discovered a secret formula for governing. Rather, he has […]

What went wrong? (Part 6)

20 September 2026 Michael Taylor 15

Continued from What Went Wrong? (Part 5) Part 6: Have We Moved Forward? There was a time when I genuinely believed we were moving forward. I remember the election of Barack Obama in 2008 and the […]

A message from the boss

19 September 2026 Michael Taylor 11

To our readers and supporters, The AIMN exists because of you. No matter how tough things get, we will always be here. Lately, though, we have been under real financial pressure for two main reasons. […]

What went wrong? (Part 5)

18 September 2026 Michael Taylor 10

Continued from What Went Wrong? (Part 4) Part 5 – The Vacuum At the end of Part 4, I suggested that we had reached the next stage of this story. When people lose faith in […]

What went wrong (Part 4)

16 September 2026 Michael Taylor 19

Continued from What Went Wrong? (Part 3) Part 4 – The Present At the beginning of this series, I asked a simple question: What went wrong? I began with the optimism I felt when Barack […]

What went wrong? (Part 3)

15 September 2026 Michael Taylor 12

Continued from What Went Wrong? (Part 2) Part 3 – The Reset Button By the time Donald Trump left the White House in January 2021, Americans were exhausted. Exhausted by the anger, exhausted by the […]

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