The Australian Independent Media Network

The Unseen Currents: How History Fuels Today’s Great Power Conflicts

10 December 2025 Andrew Klein 4

The headlines shout of a new Cold War: NATO versus Russia, the West against China. The narrative presented is often one of unprovoked aggression by authoritarian states. But to understand the present, we must dare […]

We need to Talk About Kevin

10 December 2025 David Tyler 11

We Need to Talk About Kevin: How Australia’s Men Became a Market for Rage The Demographic Stampede Something has shifted in the Coalition’s heartland, and it’s not policy. It’s identity. Australian men who once mumbled […]

Interest Rates, Tattslotto, Next Year’s Cup Winner And Premiership Predictions…

10 December 2025 Rossleigh 0

Not everything I write is satire… Sometimes I describe exactly what’s going on and other times I write satire… Of course, it’s not easy to tell the difference. I get that. And when it comes […]

The Swedish Mirror

9 December 2025 AIMN Editorial 7

The Swedish Mirror: What Australia’s ‘Perfect Society’ Shows We’ve Chosen Not to Be By Peter Brown A friend recently shared a social media post from a Swede, listing the entitlements of everyday life: five weeks’ […]

The Colby Review, AUKUS and Lopsided Commitments

9 December 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 5

In one of his many cutting observations about the fallibility of politicians, H. L. Mencken had this to say about the practical sort: “It is his business to convince the mob (a) that it is […]

Manufactured Narratives: A Century of Distortion and Dispossession in Palestine

9 December 2025 Andrew Klein 9

A recent report criticising Palestinian schoolbooks has revived a persistent narrative: that Palestinian culture inherently teaches hatred. This framing is not merely inaccurate; it is the latest tool in a century-long campaign to obscure a […]

Political Futures: The Two Faces of Australian Public Transport

9 December 2025 Denis Bright 11

Efforts by state governments to offer affordable transport, contrast with the corporatised values of the privatised rail sector with its control over the Great Southern Railway Network’s operation of the Ghan, the Indian Pacific and […]

Mockery of Democracy: Now Brought to You by Sportsbet

9 December 2025 David Tyler 10

The Stadium Tasmania Cannot Afford to Build – Yet Cannot Refuse Tasmania is preparing to borrow close to a billion dollars to build a stadium the state will not own, on recycled land it does […]

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When the System Forgets the Humans: Why Australia’s Aged-Care Assessment Workforce Must Stay, Speak, and Survive the Storm

9 December 2025 AIMN Editorial 5

By A Concerned Citizen There are moments in public policy when the machinery of government begins to move in ways that even its own operators struggle to explain. Australia’s shift to the new Support at […]

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Advance OR I Just Want My Country Back!!

8 December 2025 Rossleigh 4

Every now and then I see some list or other where the person laments what things were like when they were growing up. You know the sort of thing: Only white people were allowed in […]

MEET: When Government Gets AI Ethics Wrong, Civil Society Gets It Right

8 December 2025 AIMN Editorial 0

By Steve Davies On 1 October, I submitted a report on moral engagement to Senator Katy Gallagher. The APSC replied 2 December – polite, but essentially evasive. During those two months, I consolidated and operationalised […]

Labor must stop propping up dirty gas and support industry to decarbonise

8 December 2025 AIMN Editorial 3

Greenpeace Australia Pacific Media Release Greenpeace Australia Pacific has warned the Albanese government against plans to subsidise gas for industrial users, saying it should instead be supporting industry to decarbonise. Media reports today that Labor […]

The Spider in the Room

8 December 2025 Roswell 8

Every day in the United States, an average of 130 people die from gunshot wounds. That’s one every eleven minutes. Over a year it adds up to roughly 47,000 lives – more than the population […]

Social Media Ban: UNSW Experts Comment

8 December 2025 AIMN Editorial 4

UNSW Sydney Media Release The Australian Government’s new restrictions preventing people under 16 from accessing social media platforms will come into effect on 10 December 2025. The changes require platforms to implement age-verification measures and […]

Australian Democracy Sold Off to the Highest Bidder

8 December 2025 AIMN Editorial 7

By Denis Hay Description Australian democracy sold off through donations, lobbying, and policy influence. Discover who benefits and what Australians can do to reclaim power. 🎧 Prefer to listen to this article? Press play Introduction: […]