The New Ugly Australia … Is the right dead wrong?
Australia has changed. I cannot say when exactly it happened but sometime in the last 15 years, while we were all stood around the BBQ […]
Politics
The gift that keeps on giving
The media is in a spin over all this chatter about the possibility that former PM Tony Abbott might make another run for the top […]
The Revolution of Political Evolution in Australia
By Philip Ayton From the deep recesses of Australian Politics, there is a storm brewing. This great nation, since before federation, has swung back and […]
‘Australia Day’ proves how misguided we are in understanding who holds the power
By Shane Primrose ‘Australia Day’ proves how misguided we are in understanding who holds the power… If you’re a little like me, you didn’t celebrate Australia […]
Turning Scott’s fantasy into reality
Scott Morrison said it was a “fantasy” that cracking down on multinational tax avoidance, or reducing the generosity of superannuation tax breaks, would deliver sufficient […]
Australia Day: a date that divides us
As Australia Day 2016 approaches, I feel, once again, a sense of discomfort, something I attribute to my uneasiness about what this day represents. I have long […]
An Open Letter to the Cool Kids from a “Broken”
Dear Cool Kids This is a letter from all the tweeps and bloggers you describe as ‘brokens’. I know how much you hate open letters […]
We are Governed by Idiots.
After several interest rate reductions over the past two years, a tool used by the Reserve Bank to stimulate activity, not much has happened. Business […]
Join the Protest to re-elect Turnbull
It’s time to vote with our hearts and use our vote to stamp out the greed and austerity that underpins the destruction of a fair go in Australia by the Abbott-Turnbull Government.
What would happen if a sovereign, currency-issuing government (with a flexible exchange rate) ran a fiscal deficit without borrowing?
While I realise this is an unusual article for most AIM readers, it nonetheless provides a priceless piece of information one can take to the […]
Will this election be any different?
As things stand today, when it comes down to policy initiatives, we know far more about Labor policies than we do the Coalition. But how […]
Banks: Short on Friends, Short on Morality
If there is anyone out there who still believes banks are the friend of the average citizen they should go and see the movie, “The […]
Wake up, Australia, you are being conned
Conservative governments would have us judge every group in society by its worst members unless, of course, you belong to the political class or their […]
What is Neo-liberalism and why knowing matters
I have said it before but it deserves repeating. Democracy is not failing us; it is we who fail democracy when we fail to actively […]
People of calibre
In an attempt to show that politicians were sharing the pain of the 2014 Budget, Tony Abbott announced a freeze on politicians’ pay rises. Needless […]