The Australian Independent Media Network

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With inflation falling, RBA must cut rates

29 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 0

Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) Media Release Today’s inflation figures must prompt the RBA to cut interest rates at its February meeting to ease growing financial distress and keep people in jobs. “With inflation […]

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Trade wars: Will a China-America trade war see Australia caught in the middle?

29 January 2025 Michael Taylor 7

Talk of President Trump’s tariffs has invariably led to fears of trade wars should countries retaliate, with all eyes on China as the other big player. A trade war is: ”… an economic conflict often […]

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Electrification projects welcome: ARENA should prioritise disadvantaged households and communities

28 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 5

Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) Media Release ACOSS welcomes the agreement between the Federal Labor Government and Senators David Pocock, Jacqui Lambie, Lidia Thorpe and David Van to task ARENA to invest in home […]

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Why is Australia Day 26th January?

28 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 15

By Garry Bates In 1818, Governor Macquarie gazettes 26 January as a public holiday for New South Wales to celebrate the foundation of the colony in NSW. He called it Anniversary Day. The First Nations […]

Environment

Climate Council: Renewables suburbs an electrifying plan to cut costs and climate pollution

28 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 0

The Climate Council Media Release THE CLIMATE COUNCIL has welcomed moves to extend trials aimed at getting more Aussie suburbs off polluting gas and onto cheaper power bills through upgraded appliances, rooftop solar and batteries. […]

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What if Chicago or Brisbane was Gaza?

28 January 2025 David Ayliffe 4

More than 46,000 dead, All Infrastructure Gone Every year since the liberation of Auschwitz and the horrors revealed then, people have continued to say “Never Again”. I remember being in Phoenix Arizona in 1995 when […]

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China-Taiwan: A dangerous relationship

28 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 9

By Isidoros Karderinis The relations between China and Taiwan are constantly tense since their de facto separation in 1949 and are causing tension in relations between Beijing and Washington. On October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong […]

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Frankfurt Airport: A Special Kind of Loathing

27 January 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 0

Frankfurt, January 26 It cuts against the grain of the Teutonic character. Instead of steely no-nonsense efficiency, we see gross lethargy in moving people across terminals. Instead of promptitude in offering advice to those desperately […]

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Donald Trump’s tariffs: a world of hurt

27 January 2025 Michael Taylor 3

Donald Trump has been talking a lot about tariffs lately, especially when used as an attempt to dominate other nations. Trump’s tariffs implemented during his first presidency (2017–2021) were designed to protect U.S. industries and […]

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New survey reveals extent of Israel’s failure to improve humanitarian access in Gaza in the year since ICJ ruling

27 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 1

Oxfam Australia Media Release As pause in hostilities allows aid to flow in, agencies call for accountability and for same cycles of neglect and impunity not to be repeated. A new survey of 35 aid […]

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The Great Australian Myth

27 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 9

By Callen Sorensen Karklis Australia the land of the fair go! Or so we were led to believe. In recent times this myth has been challenged when in actual fact our so-called egalitarian objectives of […]

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Virgin Mary’s Immaculate Conception First IVF Birth Coercive Control by God?

27 January 2025 Tess Lawrence 16

By the barren wombed and time-warped Tess Lawrence And God created Man in His own image and likeness. What a breathtaking and arrogant statement. Could only have been written by a bloke. The Imago Dei […]

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Things That Don’t Work Or Elon, Donald And Peter

27 January 2025 Rossleigh 5

Now if someone were to tell me that my fly was undone, I’d apologise and discretely zip myself up and hope that not many people noticed and that I hadn’t exposed anything that shouldn’t see […]

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A Rich Man’s Trick

26 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 6

By James Moore “The corruption that hides in plain sight is the real threat to our democracy.” – Zephyr Teachout Every stroke of Donald Trump’s pen is making life in the U.S. increasingly dangerous and […]

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Fascism is unlikely: idiocy is the real threat

26 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 2

Though our original site will still be up for another couple of years, it is an unhappy thought knowing that it will eventually be gone, and with it, thousands of articles that are a record […]