Culture
The Elderly – At the Bottom of My Green Garden
WHEN YOU ARE OLD When you are old and grey and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book, and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had […]
Poetry
Politics
The Sickle Sceptre Sway
So stow your gods and idols wherever you make your bed, listen to the theatre, the voices in your head. This article is the extant poem further below, but a few words and banter I […]
Politics
Ghosts of Albanese
Welcome to Australia I thought today of all days to mark this special occasion on the Australian Independent Media Network (AIMN), we’d celebrate world events from our unique perspective in the southern hemisphere as you […]
Culture
Three Poems, Irony and Apology to Elephants
Note: This article, from our archives, was first published on November 9, 2024. It remains as relevant today. Pity a nation that despises a passion in its dream, yet submits in its awakening’. […]
Politics
American Sentence
‘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 […]
Politics
AIM Extra
Poetry is life
By Maria Millers August is that unpredictable month: warmer days, daffodils promising spring but still wintery… It’s also National Poetry Month initiated by Red Room Poetry. This initiative highlights First Nations voices, youth ambassadors, accessible […]
AIM Extra
The Last Lament
On 15 March 1889, three American and three German warships, and HMS Calliope of the Royal Navy’s Australia Station protecting British interests, were tightly anchored in a standoff in the tiny harbour of Apia, Samoa, […]
Current affairs
Tittle-tattle, rittle-rattle: Dutton in Adelaide
Another fudgestone kop prank from spudsville courtesy of Sky News king of muck rakers. An unletter to the Sydney Morning Herald, and thanks to GL for the thumbs up this morning, following on from ‘How […]
Current affairs
How bloody well informed are we? It doesn’t look good!
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. […]