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Critical Archival Encounters and the Evolving Historiography of the Dismissal of the Whitlam Government (Part 4)

10 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 4

By Jenny Hocking Continued from Part 3 Kerr always claimed that the decision to dismiss the Whitlam government was his alone, that the leader of the opposition, Malcolm Fraser, did not know and that he […]

Dutton reminds us of Abbott, but not in a good way

9 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 5

One from our old site that deserves another run. Mark Buckley published this well-received article on September 25, 2023. Reading Nikki Savva’s The Road to Ruin is a depressing read, because it validates what many of us […]

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Jimmy Carter’s place in the sun

9 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 1

By Peter Boyer In June 1979, on a warm and sunny morning in Washington, President Jimmy Carter stood with minders and media people on the roof of the White House to view what they imagined […]

Los Angeles fire a wake up call for Australia

9 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 4

Friends of the Earth Australia Media Release The fires currently tearing through Los Angeles are a reminder that Australia can no longer rely on northern hemisphere nations for water-bombing aircraft and firefighters during our summer. […]

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Monash experts: Andrew Tate launches political party

9 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 8

Monash University Media Release Controversial influencer Andrew Tate has this week launched a political party in the UK and announced his intention to attempt a political career. His party is titled ‘Britain Restoring Underlying Values’, […]

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Critical Archival Encounters and the Evolving Historiography of the Dismissal of the Whitlam Government (Part 3)

9 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 3

By Jenny Hocking Continued from Part 2 Through that single act of dismissal, Kerr had breathed new life into the arcane reserve powers of the Crown once considered obsolete, superseded by the democratic fabric of […]

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Democracy and diversity: media ownership in Australia

8 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 2

Here’s one for the ages, first published on our old site on June 23, 2014. “To protect democracy, governments have an obligation to detect and remove political bias within the media” writes David Vadori. We […]

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 […]

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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 […]