The Australian Independent Media Network

How equal is equal?

8 January 2025 Bert Hetebry 4

It’s an interesting question. Does equality mean that we are all treated the same? Does equality mean we are all equal under law? Does equality mean that men and women are considered equal? Does equality […]

After Pressure, Zuckerberg Announces Philomena Cunk To Be Sole Fact Checker!

8 January 2025 Rossleigh 9

Ok, the main concern when people start “fact checking” is who checks the fact checkers… Having said that, there are certain things that are generally accepted and, while these may change over time, there’s a […]

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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 […]

The cover of Alt Reich: The Network War to Destroy the West from Within by Nafeez Ahmed

The Atlas Network has eugenicist roots

8 January 2025 Lucy Hamilton 36

We don’t expect the free market’s ad men to understand their movement’s deep integration with eugenicist ideas. It is worth knowing that fact, however much they will deny the relevance of their origin stories. Peter […]

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Critical Archival Encounters and the Evolving Historiography of the Dismissal of the Whitlam Government (Part 2)

8 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 3

By Jenny Hocking Continued from Part 1 After years of legal action, still absent from public view are crucial documents from a most contentious time in British imperial history: the 1947 and 1948 diaries covering […]

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The polar playground for a suicidal species?

7 January 2025 Noel Wauchope 2

Where to begin on this mind-boggling story about epic changes on a very small planet? Well, let’s begin on the fun part. The Australian Antarctic Program encourages some pretty innocuous recreational activities, plus of course, […]

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ABC News refuses to correct manifestly false reporting about Labor’s poverty reduction

7 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 8

By Alan Austin An interview on the 7.30 Report in November asserted falsely that poverty in Australia was worsening under the Albanese Government. That segment, as shown in an earlier analysis last month, reported that […]

Netflix Robodebt Australia’s War Against The People

7 January 2025 David Ayliffe 8

Bigger Than ‘Mr Bates vs The Post Office’ I have just watched Mr Bates Vs The Post Office, a fantastic four part series about the ineptitude of the British Post Office and a corrupt computer […]

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 […]

Australian Koala Foundation to re-launch Democracy Booklet ahead of looming election

7 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 1

Australian Koala Foundation Media Release The Australian Koala Foundation (AKF) are preparing to re-launch a refreshed version of their ‘Democracy Booklet’ initiative ahead of the federal election this year. The campaign will run for ten […]

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Critical Archival Encounters and the Evolving Historiography of the Dismissal of the Whitlam Government (Part 1)

7 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 3

By Jenny Hocking Abstract Gough Whitlam was deeply committed to the preservation of history, and keenly attuned to the importance of the documentary record in the writing of it. For Whitlam, the written record – […]

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

6 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 4

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 […]

The Party That Killed Democracy (Part 1)

6 January 2025 David Ayliffe 5

The demise of Western Democracy has been predicted in various ways over the years. It all started I think with The Party, or at least a Party. Remember that party when there was lots of […]

Join the Army; Travel to Exotic, Distant Lands; and Radicalise

6 January 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 4

It has been popular to see political and religious radicalisation as something oddly separable from institutions of state. State institutions are meant to cope and cure the condition, not foster it. Like some errant form, […]

Politician refuses to condemn party over scandal.

The Nuclear Robodebt

6 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 9

By Christopher Kennedy Liberal Party leader Dutton has come up with the nuclear option for energy generation as his ticket to be the next prime minister. Not since the National/Liberal Party cut funding in embryonic […]