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It’s Liberation Day – Whoopee!

1 April 2025 Terence Mills 6

Winston Smith opened his eyes and focused on the drab room that he called his home. Chanting from the streets below reminded him that it was Liberation Day – a euphemism referring to the population […]

Greenland: What’s at stake (Part 2)

1 April 2025 Roswell 4

Continued from Part 1 In Part 2, I explore hypothetical scenarios, so think of this article as a mix of personal opinions and potential outcomes. Australia’s Potential Response Australia is in a tricky spot with […]

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Can Christians, Jews and Muslims ever get on together?

1 April 2025 Bert Hetebry 4

“There is seldom a difficulty with religion where there is friendship.” (Sebastian Barry, Irish novelist and playwright.) In a world wracked with religious wars, can there ever be a time and place where people of […]

Reserve Bank of Australia, text: On Hold.

RBA rates hold in anticipation of ‘Liberation Day’

1 April 2025 AIMN Editorial 2

Monash University Media Release Dr Isaac Gross, Department of Economics, Monash Business School suggests that: “The RBA held interest rates steady today as they await for the next set of quarterly inflation figures to see […]

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The need for healthy debate

1 April 2025 AIMN Editorial 3

By Maria Millers When was the last time you had a meaningful conversation with a friend or relative over coffee or over a drink with a mate while watching football? In previous generations, political discussions […]

Secrecy and Virtue Signalling: Another View of Signalgate

1 April 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 6

There has been a fascinating, near unanimous condemnation among the cognoscenti about the seemingly careless addition of Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic to the chat chain of Signal by US National Security Advisor Michael Waltz. […]

Protest crowd with "listen to our voices" sign.

Battle Cry of the Unbowed

1 April 2025 Roger Chao 1

In this hallowed land downunder, where change is underway, Lies a spark, untamed and fierce, that will not fade away. It’s a flame that feeds on anger, on the wrongs we can’t ignore, It’s a […]

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Detecting deepfakes during election campaigns

1 April 2025 AIMN Editorial 0

Monash University Media Release The generation of deepfakes during election campaigns is becoming more sophisticated, with advanced techniques in: Human-centred artificial intelligence Audio-visual deepfakes Computer vision Associate Professor Abhinav Dhall from Monash University’s Department of […]

Greenland: What’s at stake (Part 1)

31 March 2025 Roswell 5

The U.S. first entertained the idea of purchasing Greenland way back in 1867, again in 1946, then again in 1955. Trump’s fixation on Greenland dates back to 2019 when he first floated the idea of […]

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Colonialism and the Erasure of Cultures

31 March 2025 Bert Hetebry 0

“You didn’t learn our language.” It has been a long time since I saw the film ‘1492: Conquest of Paradise’, but the closing scene (as I remember it) was Christopher Columbus asking the leader of […]

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Myanmar earthquake: death toll expected to exceed 10,000 as Plan International Australia launches urgent response

31 March 2025 AIMN Editorial 0

Plan International Australia Media Release Plan International has launched a major emergency fundraising appeal to support the delivery of life saving aid and support to thousands affected by this devastating earthquake. The powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake […]