Australian political analysis Archives

Black Fog – If We Can’t Think for Ourselves: Must We Muzzle and Bastardise Tertiary Education and Our Public Institutions?

6 February 2026 Jon Chesterson 13

‘Antisemitism’, a disguised undercover Zionist attack on Australian Universities – political analysis and warning to Albanese – don’t do this! The Black Fog – If people can’t think for themselves, if they have no independent […]

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Rotting Wood in Port of Zion

17 October 2025 Jon Chesterson 10

From an Unhinged BBC and Other Western Mainstream Media Crackpots – Don’t We Have Serious Problems of Our Own? Today’s big headline from the BBC, allegedly late yesterday – ‘China arrested 30 Christians. Some fear […]

American Sentence

5 September 2025 Jon Chesterson 1

‘Send these the homeless tempest-tost to me’, blind bats to my ‘golden door’, deaf to the dimming of the light and slaughter from whence they crossed those seas. Miss Liberty hurls her truncheon, shattered […]

Last lap, little traction: the election campaign’s final frenzy

1 May 2025 Michael Taylor 2

As the Australian federal election looms, the campaign’s final week has been a whirlwind of hot-button issues. But with political spin and media agendas in overdrive, are voters actually tuning in? Have these talking points […]

How bloody well informed are we? It doesn’t look good!

18 February 2025 Jon Chesterson 12

This is the dead land* this is cactus land here the stone images are raised, here they receive the supplication of a dead man’s hand under the twinkle of a fading star. […]

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YouGov – no I’m just kidding

17 February 2025 Jon Chesterson 28

Where’s our news, where are the investigative journalists, where’s our ABC and who the fudgestone are YouGov? The ABC busted: our most trusted and public broadcaster drops the YouGov bombshell, except they hide the real […]

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Critical Archival Encounters and the Evolving Historiography of the Dismissal of the Whitlam Government (Part 5)

11 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 3

By Jenny Hocking Continued from Part 4 On the afternoon of 11 November 1975, Kerr revealed that he had secretly met with the Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, Sir Garfield Barwick, the […]

The cover of Alt Reich: The Network War to Destroy the West from Within by Nafeez Ahmed

The Atlas Network has eugenicist roots

8 January 2025 Lucy Hamilton 36

We don’t expect the free market’s ad men to understand their movement’s deep integration with eugenicist ideas. It is worth knowing that fact, however much they will deny the relevance of their origin stories. Peter […]

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ABC News refuses to correct manifestly false reporting about Labor’s poverty reduction

7 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 8

By Alan Austin An interview on the 7.30 Report in November asserted falsely that poverty in Australia was worsening under the Albanese Government. That segment, as shown in an earlier analysis last month, reported that […]

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The Revolutionary Act of Real Conversations

5 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 4

By Sue Barrett How Conversations Build Bridges, Empower Change, and Challenge the Status Quo Conversations are the foundation of every meaningful change in society. They are the revolutionary act that empowers us to dismantle division, […]

Political Futures: More Data Can Still Erode Populist Influences

5 January 2025 Denis Bright 1

A federal budget in March 2025 offers yet another chance to broaden the economic information base for both constituents and media commentators. If the Albanese Government is defeated, expect the LNP to consolidate its hold […]

Frail Egos and Sandpit Colonialism: Australia, the United States and Invading Iraq

4 January 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 9

Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard is in the news again. The release of Australian cabinet documents from 2004 – a supposed treat for historians of Australian history each new year – has been given […]

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The ugly side of politics

3 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 1

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

This Is Our Moment: A Call to Reclaim Democracy and Secure a Better Future for all Australians

2 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 15

By Sue Barrett The two-party system has failed us. It’s time for people-powered politics to deliver a fairer, more inclusive, and sustainable future for everyone. I don’t know where you are right now and how […]

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Number 4 for 2024: Peter Dutton still yet to deny he has shares in Coles!

27 December 2024 AIMN Editorial 2

What’s a Top 5 for the year if a Rossleigh article isn’t in it? Answer: We don’t know, because he’s always in it. He comes in at number 4 with this gem from January on […]

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