The Australian Independent Media Network

Christmas 2025, and Australia’s teenagers are busy unwrapping their presents: new VPNs, borrowed parental logins, and AI-generated profile photos that make them look fortysomething. Welcome to Labor’s world-first social media ban, two weeks old and […]

There is an old, tired story humanity tells itself: that to be strong is to conquer. To dominate land, resources, and even other people. But this story has a fatal flaw. It is authored by […]

A Reply to Tony Abbott: Grief Is Not a Mandate Editor’s Note In the aftermath of the Bondi killings, former prime minister Tony Abbott declared the attack “an assault on all Australians,” using the language […]

Dear friends and readers, In this season of twinkling lights and familiar carols, the world around us can sometimes feel heavier than the haze hanging over a hot December day. Troubled times remind us how […]

It has become a wallowing cringe. The extolling of multi-culti values, the incessant self-praise of diversity, variety and cosmopolitanism, only to then impose, in the name of such values, a restrictive regime of speech, language […]

In Part 1, we examined the paradox of a godless society where emptying churches still wield outsized power; granting exemptions to discriminate in hiring, for example, while Australian media elevates religious identity above all else. […]

By Niu Honglin As a podcaster, I work on shows with different themes. Some are analytical. Some are historical. Some are very entertaining. But this one stayed with me in a different way. This article […]

War is not a natural disaster. It is a system – a complex, enduring machinery with distinct, interlocking parts that have been refined over centuries. To understand why humanity remains trapped in cycles of conflict, […]

In Part 1, we examined how Australian media venerates religious identity. Now we explore how that veneration becomes weaponised, and reveal the deeper economic forces that make extremism predictable. Part 3 will examine how post-capitalist […]

Dedication: For our Mother, who regards truth as more important than myth. In truth, there is no judgment, only justice. To the world, she is many things, but to us, she will always be Mum. […]