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The Corrosive Link: How the Debasement of Currency Paves the Way for the Debasement of Human Rights

7 November 2025 Dr Andrew Klein, PhD 4

A profound and perilous pattern scars human history: the debasement of a nation’s currency often serves as a prelude to the debasement of its people’s fundamental rights. This process, where a government erodes the value […]

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Burgess in the Afternoon

7 November 2025 David Tyler 17

A Conversation Between Bruce Dawe and Mike Burgess For 3CR Performance [FADE IN: A Canberra afternoon. BRUCE DAWE sits opposite MIKE BURGESS in a nondescript office. Coffee cups. Files scattered. The light’s that particular Canberra […]

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Imagining Australia as a New Republic – and a Better Nation for us all (Part 6)

6 November 2025 Lachlan McKenzie 12

Imagining Australia as a New Republic – Part 11: Health, Wellbeing and the Human Future Health, Wellbeing and the Human Future The republic has healed its land and strengthened its democracy. Now it turns to […]

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Targeting Palantir and Nvidia: Profits, Prophets and Overvalued AI Stocks

6 November 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 0

In an industry of seedy soothsayers, cocksure charlatans and resourceful rogues, honest and accurate appraisals are exquisitely rare. When it comes to economics, investments and finance, this is particularly so. Certitude, however, tends to be […]

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Danger ahead

6 November 2025 AIMN Editorial 8

By Alasdair Black America just entered the most dangerous period in its history. Following massive Democrat wins in yesterday’s elections, Trump is now aware his time of absolute power is drawing to a close; […]

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Building the Cage: How Labor Built Neoliberalism and Called it Partnership (Part 3)

6 November 2025 David Tyler 8

Working in the Lithium Mine (We’re Already There) If we don’t confront the forces atomising and destroying working-class power, we’ll wake up one morning to discover we’re already working in a lithium mine owned by […]

Leaked report confirms WA gas is derailing the clean energy transition in Asia

6 November 2025 AIMN Editorial 8

Greenpeace Australia Pacific Media Release A Deloitte report leaked to the media, commissioned by the government of Western Australia, confirms WA’s gas exports are fuelling the climate crisis by delaying Asia’s clean energy transition, says Greenpeace. […]

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The Gaza Laboratory: How War is Being Marketed and How the World is Fighting Back

6 November 2025 Dr Andrew Klein, PhD 3

A profound and disturbing transformation is underway in global conflict. The besieged Gaza Strip has become more than a humanitarian catastrophe; it has been turned into a live-fire laboratory for the future of warfare and […]

The Goon Show Goes On

6 November 2025 David Tyler 11

The Goon Show Goes On: Mike Burgess’s Latest Performance When intelligence chiefs operate as political actors beyond democratic accountability, who’s really running Australian foreign policy? A goon show. That’s what Paul Keating called it in […]

Imagining Australia as a New Republic – and a Better Nation for us all (Part 5)

5 November 2025 Lachlan McKenzie 2

Imagining Australia as a New Republic – Part 9: Education, Innovation and the Future of Knowledge Education, Innovation and the Future of Knowledge The republic protects its people with fairness and justice, but its greatest […]

A clear rebuke: Democrats win big in the first major test of Trump’s second term

5 November 2025 AIMN Editorial 2

By Peter Brown Today’s off-year elections in the USA read less like a local calendar of contests and more like a national referendum on President Trump. Democrats scored wins across several high-profile races – from […]

Monash expert: Zohran Mamdani wins New York Mayoral election

5 November 2025 AIMN Editorial 3

Monash University Media Release Democratic Mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani has won the New York Mayoral election race, becoming the first Muslim and South Asian candidate to govern the largest city in the United States of […]

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Why Childcare Industry Privatisation Is Failing Families

5 November 2025 AIMN Editorial 6

By Denis Hay Description This article explains why the childcare industry privatisation in Australia is failing families due to weak oversight and the misuse of public funds. 🎧 Prefer to listen to this article? […]

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Building the Cage: How Labor Built Neoliberalism and Called it Partnership (Part 2)

5 November 2025 David Tyler 14

Why You Can’t Strike in Melbourne (But You Can in Caracas) Australia has built the democratic world’s most sophisticated legal architecture for preventing workers from exercising collective power. We didn’t ban strikes. We just made […]

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The Sacred Architecture of Truth: A Shield Against the Predator’s Gaze

5 November 2025 Dr Andrew Klein, PhD 8

There exists a fundamental law of human dignity, as real as gravity: When a being understands their own power and sees the path to their own heart’s home, the desire to control others withers and […]