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Sudan crisis marks grim anniversary as Plan International condemns civilian and aid worker deaths

15 April 2025 AIMN Editorial 2

Plan International Australia Media Release Dozens of people have been killed in Zamzam camp in Sudan’s North Darfur region following intense fighting over the weekend. The seizing of the camp by armed parties also saw […]

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Gender Stunts in Space: Blue Origin’s Female Celebrity Envoys

15 April 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 8

Indulgent, vain and profligate, the all-female venture into space on the self-piloted New Shepard (NS-31) operated by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin was space capitalism and celebrity shallowness on full show, masquerading as profound, moving and […]

Operation Sovereign Borders: A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure

15 April 2025 Roger Chao 1

WELCOME, DEAR READER! IT’S TIME TO BEGIN, A TALE OF ESCAPE, WHERE HOPE GIVES IN. YOU’RE SEEKING A HOME, A PLACE SAFE AND FREE, BUT CHOICES ARE FEW, AS YOU’LL SOON COME TO SEE. TURN […]

Olfactive Implications: Perfume, Power and Emmanuel Macron

14 April 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

Apparently, he is addicted to it. The French President, Emmanuel Macron, adores using perfume. The variety: Dior Eau Sauvage. Dior states that the perfume is characterised by notes of Calabrian bergamot and Papua New Guinean […]

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The Lantern Carriers

14 April 2025 Roger Chao 0

In the town of Latchmere Vale, where cobbled paths entwine, The nights are dim, the fog is thick, the stars refuse to shine. But once a year or maybe two, a light will pierce the […]

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The Gilded Throne

13 April 2025 Roger Chao 2

I drove through a dust-bitten stretch of America where the billboards flicker and sag, Old campaign signs bleach under decades of sunlight, rusted through at the jag. And I saw a man in a service […]

Soldiers and burning car in urban conflict.

There is always someone to hate

12 April 2025 Bert Hetebry 6

The Irish actor Richard Harris told a story of his experience of the bigotry directed against him in his days as a young actor. He was playing a small part in Macbeth, just a walk […]

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Dear Australia: It’s Time to Ditch Our Healthcare Circus and Fund Medicare Like Adults

12 April 2025 Lachlan McKenzie 9

Let’s talk about Australia’s healthcare system, shall we? A bizarre carnival where we’ve somehow convinced ourselves that paying for two parallel systems – one public, one private – is “efficient.” Spoiler alert: it’s not. It’s […]

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The irrational optimism of the nuclear power lobby

12 April 2025 Noel Wauchope 5

The LNP Opposition is the prime example of this unfounded optimism. Coalition leader Peter Dutton is full of enthusiasm in his nuclear plan: “Our plan will deliver a net-zero electricity grid by 2050 and a […]

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Junk Science and Bad Policing: The Homicide Prediction Project

11 April 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 1

The law enforcement breed can be a pretty dark lot. To be paid to think suspiciously leaves its mark, fostering an incentive to identify crimes and misdemeanours with instinctive compulsion. Historically, this saw the emergence […]

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Chalmers Battles Sky News Moderator Ross Greenwood and Angus Taylor in Debate Where Maths Took a Backseat to Meltdowns

10 April 2025 Lachlan McKenzie 6

The Great Economic Roast-a-Thon: A Snarky Dissection In a debate that felt more like a chaotic Kitchen Nightmares episode for fiscal policy, Treasurer Jim Chalmers (Labor) faced off against Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor (Coalition) and […]

Killing Paramedics: Israel’s War on Palestinian Health

9 April 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 14

It was a massacre. Fifteen emergency workers, butchered in cold blood by personnel from the Israeli Defense Forces in southern Gaza on March 23. It all came to light from a video that the IDF […]

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Addressing Hate Speech and Incitement: Holding Meta Accountable in Africa

6 April 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3

It was yet another unwelcome development for Mark Zuckerberg’s technology titan Meta, the parent company of Facebook. The High Court of Kenya has found that the US-based entity can be sued over its alleged role in […]

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U.S.A tariffs to hit Victorian businesses

3 April 2025 AIMN Editorial 5

The Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Media Release The Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry is warning of significant consequences for Victorian exporters, particularly in agriculture, food production and manufacturing, following the announcement that […]

For the Love of Landmines: European States Exit the Ottawa Convention

2 April 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3

Paranoia manifests in various ways. It can eat away individuals in desperate solitude, whittling away sanity and balance. It can be enlisted in the making of policy. The latter can be particularly dangerous, notably when readying […]

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