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From Ignorance to Understanding: Facing the Truth of Colonisation (Part 20)

10 September 2025 Lachlan McKenzie 0

Chapter 20: Health, Housing, and Education Gaps – Colonisation’s Ongoing Price The Myth of the “Fair Go” Australia prides itself on being “the land of the fair go.” Yet when it comes to health, housing, […]

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Fake news, predictable response

10 September 2025 Roswell 0

A recent Facebook post claiming that Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong is sending $1 million in taxpayer money to the Taliban has raised not just eyebrows, but – as evidenced in the comments – widespread […]

AIM Extra

Scotland’s Status at the UN – Petition for Recognition as a Non-Self-Governing Territory

10 September 2025 AIMN Editorial 11

SALVO, is the executive arm of Liberation Scotland, a civic organisation committed to constitutional research, public education, and democratic engagement. As part of an international effort, they have recently submitted a formal petition to the […]

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Oxfam: Palestinians pushed into deeper crisis with Israeli displacement order on entire Gaza City

10 September 2025 AIMN Editorial 1

Oxfam Australia Media Release 1 million people being forced towards unliveable, so called “humanitarian area” in mass forced displacement. Israel’s intent to displace around 1 million civilians, half of whom are living in famine, is impossible […]

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Cassowary habitat under threat

10 September 2025 AIMN Editorial 0

MEDIA RELEASE Community group challenges Council approval to protect Currunda Creek and cassowary habitat A newly formed community group, Redlynch Valley Action Inc., is challenging Cairns Regional Council’s approval of the proposed Currunda Trades and […]

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Trump’s cure for everything – including wars

10 September 2025 Roswell 12

The Tariff–Vaccine Paradox: Trump’s Unlikely Legacy Polls show Americans are surprisingly consistent on two things: they like vaccines, and they hate tariffs. The first makes sense – nobody wants polio making a comeback. The second […]

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From Ignorance to Understanding: Facing the Truth of Colonisation (Part 19)

9 September 2025 Lachlan McKenzie 0

Chapter 19: Child Removals Today – The New Stolen Generations A Continuation, Not a Memory When Australians hear “Stolen Generations,” many think of the 19th and early 20th centuries – the era when children were […]

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Destroying Gaza City

9 September 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 2

Destroying cultures and eradicating the legacies of a people is a game the parochial and the dim-witted delight in. While this should be shunned and punished in international law, a general discomfort of purpose seems […]

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Why Labor Nauru Deportation Policy is a $2.5B Scandal

9 September 2025 AIMN Editorial 5

By Denis Hay Description The Labor Nauru deportation policy is a $2.5B scandal, strips rights, and fuels cruelty. See what Australia could do with that money instead. 🎧 Prefer to listen to this article? […]

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Jacinta Price’s defection: How’s that working out?

9 September 2025 Michael Taylor 9

In the wake of the Liberal Party’s bruising defeat in the May 2025 federal election, where Anthony Albanese’s Labor secured a decisive second term amid a Liberal collapse, the party desperately sought fresh blood to […]

Goldgate: How Howard’s 1997 Fire-Sale Cost Australians Billions

9 September 2025 Lachlan McKenzie 14

In Australian politics, John Howard and Peter Costello built reputations as the “responsible economic managers” who supposedly safeguarded the nation’s prosperity. Yet buried in that legacy lies a decision that reads less like prudence and […]

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It’s Ok, I Voted For A Dictatorship!

8 September 2025 Rossleigh 2

The trouble with democracy is that sometimes the wrong people win. I know this because I’ve heard many people – both left and right – complain about an election result and some even go as […]

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From Ignorance to Understanding: Facing the Truth of Colonisation (Part 18)

8 September 2025 Lachlan McKenzie 1

Chapter 18: Over-Policing and Incarceration A Colonial Inheritance From the earliest days of colonisation, police forces in Australia were created not to protect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, but to control them. The Native […]

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Is President Trump a Dictator in the Making?

8 September 2025 Michael Taylor 6

Trump is not yet a dictator. But he is rehearsing the role – and the hand-picked audience, disturbingly, seems to be warming to the performance. The word “dictator” carries heavy weight. It conjures images of […]

Politics

Renaming Defense Dept. War Dept. wrong but accurately describes deranged US perpetual war policy

7 September 2025 AIMN Editorial 1

By Walt Zlotow President Trump’s Executive Order renaming the Department of Defense the Department of War disgraces and dishonours everything America should stand for in the community of nations. What is that? Most importantly, peace […]