“Hate is now a franchise, and Hanson is one of its longest-serving licensees.” theaimn.net/the-hypocris...

You’ve likely heard the old saying: “A government is only as strong as its opposition.” Looking at Australian political history over the last 40 years, this saying has proven to be remarkably true, theaimn.net/it-is-true-a...

The swindlers have found new ways of swindling. theaimn.net/consultants-...

“In a war-crazed nation that still believes it can dominate the world, it’s simply business as usual.” theaimn.net/once-again-t...

We are being manipulated, day in and day out. theaimn.net/you-are-bein...

“The development of autonomous weapons and pervasive surveillance systems creates a world where human beings are reduced to data points and potential targets.” theaimn.net/the-modern-c...

Fifty years after 11/11/75, the questions still burn. Who orchestrated the fall of the Whitlam govt? In this 4-part series we revisit the ascent of a reformist PM, his sweeping changes, the icy standoff with the U.S. and the constitutional thunderbolt that ended it all. theaimn.net/the-anglo-am...

“Ley: Don’t misunderstand us. We have strong policies. We’re just workshopping the parts that people keep asking about.” theaimn.net/the-carbon-q...

“Barmy abandoning the Nats comes as somewhat of a surprise. This is not a bloke with transferrable skills…” theaimn.net/bibulous-bar...

“The crisis of public education is fundamentally a product of funding inequality.” theaimn.net/albanese-pro...

“The next wasteful program of military expenditure looms happily on the horizon.” More military indulgence, extravagance and fear mongering. theaimn.net/a-question-o...

“Australia’s dollar sovereignty gives the federal government the capacity to fund essential services such as housing, health, education, and climate resilience. Yet, factional control within Labor channels this public money toward political strategy...” socialjusticeaustralia.com.au/labor-party-...

This is good, it made me think maybe it will make you think too. #auspol

“A profound and perilous pattern scars human history: the debasement of a nation’s currency often serves as a prelude to the debasement of its people’s fundamental rights.” theaimn.net/7th-the-corr...

If Clarke and Dawe had met ASIO. theaimn.net/burgess-in-t...

“A nation’s greatness is not measured by its wealth, but by how it treats the weary, the fragile, and the forgotten.” theaimn.net/imagining-au...

Are AI stocks about to crash? If so, sympathy for such companies is bound to be in short supply. theaimn.net/targeting-pa...

“Following massive Democrat wins in yesterday’s elections, Trump is now aware his time of absolute power is drawing to a close; the Midterms will see the end of his uninterrupted power.” Be careful, America. He’ll burn the joint down before he’d give up his dictatorship. theaimn.net/danger-ahead/

“When your life is defined by uncertainty, you can’t build the deep connections and long-term commitments that create community. You’re always in survival mode, always managing immediate crises...” theaimn.net/building-the...

“A Deloitte report leaked to the media, commissioned by the government of Western Australia, confirms WA’s gas exports are fuelling the climate crisis by delaying Asia’s clean energy transition.” theaimn.net/leaked-repor...

Netanyahu is losing friends fast, as more and more countries disassociate themselves with Israel. theaimn.net/the-gaza-lab...

“When intelligence chiefs operate as political actors beyond democratic accountability, who’s really running Australian foreign policy? … Paul Keating’s ‘goon show’. comment about ASIO still holds marvellous truth.” theaimn.net/the-goon-sho...

“When intelligence chiefs operate as political actors beyond democratic accountability, who’s really running Australian foreign policy? … Paul Keating’s ‘goon show’. comment about ASIO still holds marvellous truth.” theaimn.net/the-goon-sho...

“A republic that fails its land fails itself. By recognising the living systems that sustain it, Australia becomes both humble and strong. Economy, energy, and ecology merge into one story – not of endless growth, but of graceful balance.” theaimn.net/imagining-au...

“Today’s off-year elections in the USA read less like a local calendar of contests and more like a national referendum on President Trump.” theaimn.net/a-clear-rebu...

Short comment, but on the money. Now watch Trump squirm. theaimn.net/monash-exper...

“We built a system that protects employers from workers more comprehensively than it has ever protected workers from employers. And we call it industrial relations reform.” theaimn.net/building-the...

“When a human being is treated as an object, the damage echoes through every level of their existence.” theaimn.net/the-sacred-a...

“Across Australia, the effects of childcare industry privatisation are clear: higher costs, lower quality, and growing mistrust. Once a public service is privatised, oversight becomes optional.” socialjusticeaustralia.com.au/childcare-in...

“When justice heals instead of harms, and when security is grounded in care, a nation becomes unbreakable.” theaimn.net/imagining-au...

“It was billed as a Halloween gala but felt more like an exorcism that failed the audition” theaimn.net/vanity-fear-...

Once upon a time they joked about Gestapo tactics ever coming to the streets of Chicago. theaimn.net/ribicoff-nai...

“The Nationals’ decision to ditch net zero fails to protect the best interests of the regional Australians they claim to represent.” theaimn.net/regional-aus...

“Public schools are stretched to breaking point. Class sizes balloon, workloads rise, and teachers are asked to perform miracles on shrinking budgets.” theaimn.net/chris-breen-...

Trump mourned a prince’s lost title. He never once mourned the girl the prince allegedly raped – now gone forever. No nod either to the dozens of girls Jeffrey Epstein trafficked. Just pity for the Windsors. theaimn.net/when-empathy...

“In 1983, Bob Hawke’s Labor government, working hand in glove with union leadership through the Prices and Incomes Accord, didn’t resist neoliberalism. It built it.” theaimn.net/building-the...

“We live in an age of digital miracles, where intelligence is artificial and clouds are not in the sky, but in warehouses. Yet, this ethereal realm has a staggering physical appetite, one that is quietly draining the planet of its most vital resource: water.” theaimn.net/the-silicon-...

“We need politicians to listen to farmers, not fossil fuel billionaires.” theaimn.net/farmers-spea...

“In the new republic, sovereignty is not a flag or a slogan. It is the right and responsibility to make decisions guided by truth, ethics, and the will of the people – not by unseen agreements, foreign pressure, or domestic opportunists.” theaimn.net/imagining-au...

“The Nationals aren’t standing up for the bush, or farmers – they are selling them out.” theaimn.net/nationals-ne...

“Amazon, ruthless, mean spirited, soulless and wedded to the obscene profit margin, is also in the business of habitual deception. When it comes to the use of water for its thirsty data centres, this is most telling.” theaimn.net/draining-pra...

“In the year of nineteen thirty-two, when soldiers yearned for glory past, Their khaki creased with Empire’s pride, their bullets forged to last, They faced no foe from foreign land, no sabres from the east, But mobs of emus, flightless fiends! A most unholy beast.” theaimn.net/the-ballad-o...

“The modern state of Israel provides a clear, ongoing case study of the ancient strategy of employing different minority groups in roles of population control - with complex and troubling outcomes.” theaimn.net/israel-and-t...

Hegseth might as well have told Congress that: “I have no idea who I’m murdering on the high seas… and I don’t care.” theaimn.net/hegseth-to-c...

America must recognize that the need for food assistance is a crisis of their economy, not of their people. theaimn.net/hope-and-hum...

“Did you know the bottom 40 per cent of Australians own just 5.5 per cent of the nation’s wealth, while the top 1 per cent hold 24 per cent? How can that be fair? socialjusticeaustralia.com.au/political-re...

“This is what Labor has become. So committed to managing the system that transformation has become unthinkable.” theaimn.net/don-farrell-...

Yes. We must. theaimn.net/all-we-are-s...

Imagine a republic that provides its poorest citizens with a Universal Livable Income (ULI). theaimn.net/imagining-au...

“Gambling is something we have casually come to live with, but when gambling evolves beyond the occasional celebratory night out and that ‘bit of a flutter’ at the races or the pokies the consequences can be deadly: addiction, financial ruin, mental health collapse.” theaimn.net/i-wouldnt-be...