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[ 18 June 2026 ] Fact-Checking Pauline Hanson’s 2026 National Press Club Address AIM Extra
[ 18 June 2026 ] What Hanson’s plan to defund the SBS and paywall the ABC could mean for Australia AIM Extra
[ 18 June 2026 ] Political Donations and Lobbying: Who Influences Australia? AIM Extra
[ 18 June 2026 ] Senseless, Failed war from Day 1 to Day 112… From ‘regime change’ to ‘hail to war winner Iran’ Your Say
[ 17 June 2026 ] When Trump came to the National Press Club AIM Extra

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The Quiet Erosion: Is Australia’s Democracy Slipping Away?

8 March 2025 Michael Taylor 14

Introduction In the summer of 2023, as Australians voted down the Voice to Parliament referendum, a quieter story unfolded online: conspiracy theories about “rigged” ballots flooded social media, fueled by foreign bots and amplified by […]

Murdoch gets The Don right

24 January 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

8 January 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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The Quiet Erosion: Is Australia’s Democracy Slipping Away?

Murdoch gets The Don right

Democracy and diversity: media ownership in Australia