Editorial
A message from the boss
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. […]
Articles by Michael Taylor
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What went wrong? (Part 5)
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 […]
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What went wrong (Part 4)
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 […]
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What went wrong? (Part 3)
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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What went wrong? (Part 2)
Continued from What Went Wrong? Part 2 – When Institutions Became the Enemy At the end of Part 1, I was left with a question that was considerably more disturbing than the one with which […]
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What went wrong?
There was a time when I genuinely believed things were getting better. I remember the election of Barack Obama in the United States. After the years of George W. Bush, the wars, the divisions and […]
Your Say
Where Fate Becomes Destiny
I have a saying of my own: “Everything that happened in your past is fate. Everything that happens in your future is destiny. Today is where fate becomes destiny.” I’m not entirely sure when I […]
Editorial
Labor has disappointed, but imagine the alternative
There is a particular kind of political disappointment that is more painful than ordinary political disappointment. It is the disappointment of people who actually wanted you to do better. When Anthony Albanese led Labor to […]
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Pauline Hanson says she represents the battlers. So why do so many of her policies hurt them?
Pauline Hanson has built a remarkably successful political career out of telling Australians that she speaks for ordinary people. The battlers. The forgotten. The Australians who work hard, pay their taxes and supposedly get nothing […]
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Another epic fail by regulator ASIC provokes pitched battle by Consolidated Builders Ltd shareholder
Introduction There is a difference between a regulator receiving a complaint and a regulator doing something about it. There is also a difference between a shareholder making allegations about a company and a former company […]
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Why does the mention of Aborigines make some people angry?
For as long as I can remember, there has been one subject almost guaranteed to bring out the worst in some Australians. Aborigines. Write about Aboriginal history, Aboriginal disadvantage, land rights, deaths in custody, the […]
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When Facebook becomes the history book
Four myths about Aboriginal Australia that refuse to die A few facts about Aboriginal Australia that seem to have escaped the comment section. My recent article about Aboriginal land management attracted more than 2,100 comments […]
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What if the highest achievement of a civilisation is not what it leaves behind, but what it leaves intact?
Every so often – very often – someone declares that Aborigines “did nothing for 65,000 years.” Usually it is presented as an indisputable fact, as though it settles the argument. It doesn’t. It merely exposes […]
Editorial
What today’s polls could mean for tomorrow’s election
Opinion polls are snapshots, not predictions. Governments have recovered from dreadful polling before, and oppositions have turned seemingly hopeless situations into election victories. Yet sometimes polling reveals something deeper than the fortunes of individual leaders. […]
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Politics has a habit of changing slowly… until it doesn’t
Only a few months ago the Liberal Party was talking about renewal. A new leader. A fresh start. A chance to reconnect with voters after a devastating election defeat. Instead, the latest polling suggests the […]