“Instagram Helped Kill My Daughter”: Censorship Tendencies in Social Media
It is all a rather sorry tale. Molly Russell, another teenager gorged on social media content, sharing and darkly revelling, took her own life in […]
AIM Extra
The rise of underemployment in Australia
By Thierry Berger We talk of underemployment when people work less hours than they would if they were employed full time or when their occupation doesn’t […]
The internet has for some become a dangerous place
How do we put this? We have always prided ourselves on the site we have built, and those hundreds of commenters and authors that have […]
January 1: Exclusion and the White Australia Policy
Is there a day on the calendar that draws as much debate as January 26? While a large proportion of Australians celebrate this as Australia […]
Russian whistle-blower denied asylum in Australia
In 2006, British contractor Nick Stride was hired to work on the refurbishment of a palace under construction for Russia’s First Deputy Prime Minister, Igor Shuvalov, […]
Dances of Disinformation: The Partisan Politics of the Integrity Initiative
Is there such a plane of blissful, balanced information, deliberated and debated upon? No. Governments mangle; corporations distort. Interest groups tinker. Wars must be sold; […]
The true guardians of Australia
History, so goes the old saying, tends to repeat itself. But the tragedy unfolding in the Murray-Darling basin is unprecedented. This is new. You won’t […]
Ice Matters: A Meditation on Snow
Most speak of floods in the age of climate change, when the cooked and the roasted take precedence over the snowed in and the freezing, […]
Lawyer jokes? As always, the joke is on us.
By Kyran O’Dwyer Apparently, Peter Dutton got some legal advice and it’s causing some consternation. By way of disclosure, I have the attention span of […]
Biting into Apple: The Giant’s Revenues Fall
The worm has gotten into Apple, and is feasting with some consistency. Revenue has fallen. Chief executive Tim Cook is cranky. The celebrated front of Apple’s […]
Feeding the Monster
By Stephen Fitzgerald I’ve spoken previously about the lack of human rights protection in Australia and now we might have a look at the reasons […]
The Choice
It is the first day of the new year and I feel that this is the proper time when one should turn his attention to […]
Another year older
Gosh, doesn’t time fly? Here’s some proof: Today we celebrate our 6th birthday. It’s hard to pick a highlight out of those six years, but […]
2019: the Year of Hope … the Year of Action
Well here we are. So it’s a big HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all. We at The AIMN extend to you our best wishes and […]
2018: the Top 5
Deja vu. This time last year we bemoaned that: We can all agree that politically, 2017 was a boring year: 365 days of nothing but […]