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Urgent action is needed following damning report

21 May 2025 AIMN Editorial 1

Everybody’s Home Media Release The State of the Housing System 2025 report is a sobering and necessary reminder to urgently invest in social housing and reform tax settings that fuel inequality, national housing campaign Everybody’s […]

A man debates vaccine safety while another reads a book on tetanus facts.

Tetanus, Truth, and the Cost of Silence: Confronting Dangerous Disinformation

21 May 2025 Lachlan McKenzie 0

The above meme, which I came across on Facebook, quoting Russell Blaylock, presents a deeply misleading and factually incorrect take on tetanus and the value of vaccination. Such disinformation cannot be allowed to go unchallenged. […]

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TERMS & CONDITIONS OF DIGITAL EXISTENCE

21 May 2025 Roger Chao 1

Effective Date: Upon first click, tap, scroll, or stare. Last Updated: Constantly, yet you’re unaware. PLEASE READ THESE TERMS, THOUGH WE KNOW YOU WILL NOT. BY SIMPLY EXISTING, YOU’RE ALREADY CAUGHT. 1. INTRODUCTION & AGREEMENT […]

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The Cooker Cauldron Bubbles Over: Conservatives Attempt DIY Democracy Potion

20 May 2025 Lachlan McKenzie 5

Some satire by Lachlan’s Caustic Quill In a bold political experiment that even Dr Frankenstein would call “a bit much,” Sky News After Dark’s resident wand-waver Rowan Dean has proposed a magical new political formation: […]

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The Battle for Imperial Supremacy

20 May 2025 Bert Hetebry 9

“Who commands the sea commands trade; who commands the trade of the world commands its riches, and so commands the world.” Quote attributed to Sir Walter Raleigh (1553-1618). Sabre-rattling in what is more and more […]

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Better than Burke?

20 May 2025 AIMN Editorial 3

By Jane Salmon Still Standing: Dr Ziad Basyouny Everyone knows that “safe” political seats can end up taken for granted. The Canterbury-Bankstown area has long been in Labor hands for all 3 levels of government […]

Dutton’s Dud Prediction And Breaking Up Is Sometimes Easy To Do…

20 May 2025 Rossleigh 5

Now General Sedgwick can rest easy in his grave. His famous last words were: “They couldn’t hit an elephant at this dist…”. However, after the landslide Labor win, Peter Dutton’s assertion that they were the […]

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Climate denial nukes Coalition as Australians call for more climate action

20 May 2025 AIMN Editorial 0

The Climate Council Media Release The Nationals Party decision to keep denying climate science, and walk away from the Liberal Party, will hurt their constituents in the bush. Together they were a political drag on […]

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Political Futures: Joint Problems Facing Sweden and Australia

20 May 2025 Denis Bright 7

Despite the absence of my favourite Swedish pear cider, I was almost compelled to prepare a short article after watching Michael Porttillo’s Long Weekend in Stockholm on SBS Television (19 May 2025). Michael Portillo speaks […]

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Celluloid Exploitation: Immigrants and Reality Television

20 May 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 1

Shocking it might be, yet still part of an old pattern. The US Department of Homeland Security is floating the idea of using a reality television program to select immigrants vying for US citizenship. Whether this […]

Monash expert: Liberals and Nationals announce split

20 May 2025 AIMN Editorial 7

Monash University Media Release Speaking on the split between the Liberals and Nationals Dr Zareh Ghazarian, Head of Politics and International Relations Discipline, Monash School of Social Sciences says that: “In effect, the dissolution of […]

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