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The Doomsday Clock is completely ignored

30 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 3

By Alasdair Black The Doomsday Clock has just been moved closer to midnight than ever, at 89 seconds to midnight, citing nuclear war threat, global warming and “Artificial Intelligence!” Commonly called AI. We need to […]

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Shhhhh… Listen. Can you hear the songlines?

30 January 2025 Bert Hetebry 3

Bruce Chatwin published his book Songlines in 1987. From the cover notes: ‘I have a vision of the Songlines stretching across the continents and ages; that where ever man have trodden they have left a […]

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Australian Sovereignty: Steps to Regain Independence

30 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 12

By Denis Hay Description Learn how Australian sovereignty can be reclaimed while mitigating U.S. influence. Explore actionable steps for independence without retaliation. Introduction Breaking Free: How Australia Can Regain Sovereignty from the USA? Australia’s relationship […]

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Housing costs continue to rise despite trimmed inflation reaching target

29 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 4

Master Builders Australia Media Release Some good news for the economy today with new monthly inflation data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics confirming underlying inflation is below three per cent for the first time […]

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With inflation falling, RBA must cut rates

29 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 0

Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) Media Release Today’s inflation figures must prompt the RBA to cut interest rates at its February meeting to ease growing financial distress and keep people in jobs. “With inflation […]

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Why is Australia Day 26th January?

28 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 15

By Garry Bates In 1818, Governor Macquarie gazettes 26 January as a public holiday for New South Wales to celebrate the foundation of the colony in NSW. He called it Anniversary Day. The First Nations […]

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China-Taiwan: A dangerous relationship

28 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 9

By Isidoros Karderinis The relations between China and Taiwan are constantly tense since their de facto separation in 1949 and are causing tension in relations between Beijing and Washington. On October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong […]

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Frankfurt Airport: A Special Kind of Loathing

27 January 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 0

Frankfurt, January 26 It cuts against the grain of the Teutonic character. Instead of steely no-nonsense efficiency, we see gross lethargy in moving people across terminals. Instead of promptitude in offering advice to those desperately […]

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The Great Australian Myth

27 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 9

By Callen Sorensen Karklis Australia the land of the fair go! Or so we were led to believe. In recent times this myth has been challenged when in actual fact our so-called egalitarian objectives of […]

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Virgin Mary’s Immaculate Conception First IVF Birth Coercive Control by God?

27 January 2025 Tess Lawrence 16

By the barren wombed and time-warped Tess Lawrence And God created Man in His own image and likeness. What a breathtaking and arrogant statement. Could only have been written by a bloke. The Imago Dei […]

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Things That Don’t Work Or Elon, Donald And Peter

27 January 2025 Rossleigh 5

Now if someone were to tell me that my fly was undone, I’d apologise and discretely zip myself up and hope that not many people noticed and that I hadn’t exposed anything that shouldn’t see […]

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Nuclear waste springs eternal in the human folly

25 January 2025 Noel Wauchope 4

“Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest.” – Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man, 1733. Pope goes on to say – “The soul, uneasy, and confin’d from […]

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Aussie women are a phenomena, not a relic

25 January 2025 Michael Taylor 10

When will attention-seeking, headline craving males accept that the modern day Aussie woman is not a relic? Nor an object. She is a phenomenon. Let’s face it; the treatment of Australian women from the good […]

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Why MMT Faces Resistance and How It Can Benefit Society

24 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 4

By Denis Hay Description Discover how Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) challenges neoliberal norms and offers solutions to economic inequality and climate change. Introduction Modern Monetary Theory has sparked both hope and controversy. Advocates argue that […]

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For Australia, the nuclear lobby brings out the big massage!

23 January 2025 Noel Wauchope 5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkRSTxXIcns In December 2022, 16 year-old Will Shackel started a “charity” – Nuclear For Australia, funded by entrepreneur Dick Smith. It’s a “fact-filled” “grassroots” movement, devoted to champion the cause of “clean reliable” nuclear energy […]

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