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Reimagining Democracy: A Blueprint for an Australian Republic Free from Corporate Strings

May 10, 2025 Lachlan McKenzie 3

A New Democracy for Australia: True Representation, Zero Corruption Australia stands at a crossroads. As momentum builds for a republic, the question isn’t just about replacing the monarchy – it’s about redesigning democracy itself. How […]

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Crime Fear, Conservative Cheer: Media’s Election Playbook Exposed

March 22, 2025 Lachlan McKenzie 2

Introduction In Victoria, headlines scream of rising crime, politicians trade barbs over “law and order,” and social media feeds overflow with viral videos of brazen thefts or assaults. But are crime rates truly spiraling out […]

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Australians must not ignore the Religious right’s global warnings 2.0

January 31, 2025 Lucy Hamilton 15

This essay was first published at the AIMN in September 2022. Since then the world has changed dramatically. Much of that change has been strategically orchestrated by networks of operations, with substantial funding from fossil […]

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Murdoch gets The Don right

January 24, 2025 David Ayliffe 4

I never thought I’d be lauding Melbourne’s trashy Herald-Sun for getting something right but this headline is perfect. I once worked for Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate at the birth of the schism when the correctly […]

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Democracy and diversity: media ownership in Australia

January 8, 2025 AIMN Editorial 2

Here’s one for the ages, first published on our old site on June 23, 2014. “To protect democracy, governments have an obligation to detect and remove political bias within the media” writes David Vadori. We […]

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