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The “Greater Good”: A Haunting of Australia’s Political Memory

27 October 2025 Dr Andrew Klein, PhD 8

In Australian politics, the “greater good” has often been a convenient cloak for transformative and controversial decisions. From the seismic Whitlam Dismissal to the sweeping neoliberal reforms of Hawke, Keating, and beyond, the pursuit of […]

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Israel to the people of Gaza: “No food for you during ceasefire”

27 October 2025 AIMN Editorial 8

By Walt Zlotow The ceasefire brokered by President Trump was pitched as great relief for Palestinians being bombed to oblivion in Gaza. Some relief as hundreds of Palestinians have been killed or wounded by […]

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EPBC: Leading scientists call for nature law reforms to strengthen Great Barrier Reef protection

27 October 2025 AIMN Editorial 1

Greenpeace Australia Pacific Media Release More than 100 Australian scientists and researchers have called on the Labor Government to address deforestation in the new nature law reforms, warning that the impacts under the current Act […]

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No Kings and No Message

26 October 2025 AIMN Editorial 1

By James Moore “It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” (James Baldwin, 1972). The poetry and the profanity of the “No Kings” marchers […]

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Trump’s Time-Travel Election Rigging Blunder: A Cosmic Comedy of Errors

26 October 2025 Roswell 5

Dear readers, hold onto your hats – or at least your history books – because President Trump has just launched a late-night Truth Social tirade that’s less “stable genius” and more “Back to the Future” […]

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ACF responds to Labor’s Environment Protection Agency announcement

26 October 2025 AIMN Editorial 4

Australian Conservation Foundation Media Release The Australian Conservation Foundation acknowledges Environment Minister Murray Watt’s announcement today that the Albanese government intends to establish a national Environment Protection Authority (EPA). The details announced fall short of […]

“I’ll be right after a good night’s sleep… if I ever get one”

26 October 2025 AIMN Editorial 15

By Maria Millers You often hear someone saying ‘I’ll be right after a good night’s sleep.’ And of course they are usually right. Whatever caused their difficulty in sleeping passes and life returns to […]

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Fake Boats and Bogus Admirals: Peter Cowell’s Fictional Mercy Fleet

26 October 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 1

The wish to be credulous is central to the fraudulent scheme. The one playing the fraud can always rely on some connivance and collaboration from the tricked and the gulled. Many an art curator is […]

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Government Corruption Australia: Failing Public Trust

26 October 2025 AIMN Editorial 10

By Denis Hay Description Government corruption Australia: eroding NACC integrity and public service accountability. 🎧 Prefer to listen to this article? Press play Introduction: The Erosion of Public Integrity For decades, Australians trusted that […]

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My Psychic Bingo Card of the Unthinkable

26 October 2025 Roswell 3

I’ve always fancied myself a bit of a psychic rockstar, my intuition sharp enough to cut through the noise of the universe. But lately? My crystal ball’s gone foggy, and my prized bingo card – […]

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The Age of Intellectual Enfeeblement

26 October 2025 Dr Andrew Klein, PhD 2

The West is governed by a paradox of its own making: it systematically eliminated its most capable minds through the mechanised slaughter of two World Wars, and now finds itself led by the descendants of […]

An Open Letter to Jason Koutsoukis on Barnaby Joyce

25 October 2025 David Tyler 8

Dear Jason, I read your Saturday Paper piece on Barnaby Joyce with growing frustration; not at Joyce, who is at least consistently what he is, but at your framing of his potential defection as primarily […]

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Political Futures: Adjusting to President Trump’s Global Command Outreach

25 October 2025 Denis Bright 11

Having sparked a new accord with Prime Minister Albanese, President Trump is off to spread his partisan news off to Asia with visits to Malaysia for the ASEAN Summit, a whistle stop visit to loyal […]

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Ask Not What You Can Do for One Nation – But What Has One Nation Ever Done for Anybody?

25 October 2025 David Tyler 16

Pauline Hanson’s political stable now includes two clueless newbies from WA, so fresh they still think a “budget emergency” is forgetting your wallet at the pub. This expanded squad, alongside the perpetually aggrieved Malcolm Roberts, […]

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The Band-Aid and the Bleeding: How Charitable Systems Fail the Most Vulnerable

25 October 2025 Dr Andrew Klein, PhD 1

In the shadow of our prosperous societies exists a parallel world where the most vulnerable are trapped in a cycle of crisis management. Here, faith-based and secular charities operate as an emergency response system, providing […]