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Autism peak body calls for immediate action to support autistic children

14 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 3

Autism Awareness Australia (AAA) has welcomed the Commonwealth Government’s first National Autism Strategy but says it must be followed by immediate action to address the significant gaps in support for autistic children who are losing […]

Neoliberalism 101 description and effects overview.

How Neoliberalism Created a Workforce Shortage in Australia

13 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 2

By Denis Hay Description How neoliberalism created a workforce shortage by dismantling government-led training programs, leading to a severe shortage of tradespersons and professionals. Introduction Australia faces a significant shortage of skilled tradespersons and professionals. […]

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AUKUS: Flawed and Sinking

13 January 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 11

A stillborn agreement treated as thrivingly alive; an understanding celebrated as consensual and equal. The AUKUS security arrangement between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, envisaging the transfer and building of nuclear-powered submarines […]

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Refugees as Business: The Paladin Group Contract

10 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 3

Though our original site will still be up for another couple of years, it is a horrid thought knowing that it will eventually be gone, and with it, thousands of articles that are a record […]

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Arresting and Killing Greenies: Targeting Climate Change Protests

8 January 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

Climate change, like any crisis afflicting earth and humanity, is bound to bring out the best and the worst of a species that soils its nest, salts the earth, and poisons its nourishing rivers. For […]

Was the Cold War avoidable? George Kennan.

Take Your Money and Shove it: The Second Long Telegram, US Aid, and Russia’s Economic Trauma

7 January 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

“It was as if the West’s central philosophical commitment to limited government was extirpated by a crude economic determinism that insisted on no government in Russia.” (Peter J. Stavrakis, Kennan Institute Occasional Papers, 1993). Diplomatic […]

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As the world turned to shit, the Coalition turned to religion

6 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 3

Though our original site will still be up for another couple of years, it is a horrid thought knowing that it will eventually be gone, and with it, thousands of articles that are a record […]

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What I wished I’d known at 45

4 January 2025 Bert Hetebry 4

It was a question, asking for advice, I think. I’m old, much older than 45, so the question may well have been asking for guidance or advice. Can you tell me one thing you know […]

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Frail Egos and Sandpit Colonialism: Australia, the United States and Invading Iraq

4 January 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 9

Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard is in the news again. The release of Australian cabinet documents from 2004 – a supposed treat for historians of Australian history each new year – has been given […]

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Ignoring a Leopard’s Spots: The UK, Syria and Courting Dictators

3 January 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

Moral evangelists in power preaching about democracy and human rights resemble dowdy advocates of family values. When given a chance, they will wander, leaving their principles aside like unwanted impediments. This was certainly the case […]

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Far From Ignorant: The European Union, Arms Exports and Israel

2 January 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 3

While international law can, at times, seem an ephemeral creature, vulnerable to manipulation, neglect and outright dismissal, its strictures can surprise. The evolving body of law stripping back the immunity of heads of state for […]

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Military mansplaining dispels any nonsensical ideas about “the sanctity of space”

31 December 2024 Noel Wauchope 4

Doncha love mansplaining? It simplifies everything, takes away your worries, and you can now complacently forget about any silly way-out anxieties that you might have had about technological progress. As our military defenders develop advanced […]

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Jimmy Carter, Israel and the Apartheid Question

31 December 2024 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

The late centenarian, Jimmy Carter, occupied a difficult position in the line of imperial magistrates we know as US Presidents. Coming to power in the aftermath of murderous US adventurism in Indochina and the debauching […]

Workers protesting during sit-down strike, 1930s.

Working

29 December 2024 AIMN Editorial 3

By James Moore When I was offered the job I was a bit stunned. Summertime employment in the car factories of Michigan was mostly an impossible dream for college students. The work was generally relief […]

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Number 3 for 2024: Gaza

28 December 2024 AIMN Editorial 3

Great to see Keith Davis make his debut in the Top 5, with this topical article on Gaza from January. Is Israel committing genocide in Gaza? Palpably so. But have you bothered for even a […]

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