Thank you, Ms. McManus, and congratulations
Dear friends of The AIMN, On 15 March 2017 the battered Australian Broadcasting Commission went on air with a 7.30 Report interview to Ms. Sally […]
Your Say
The human impact of the Cashless Welfare Scheme
Tina Clausen responds to the Government’s announcement that they will continue the roll out of the Income Management Scheme for all Centrelink beneficiaries, (not just […]
Why Barnett lost
By Tracie Aylmer As the election finishes up and Upper House votes with preference deals are finalised, I would like to give another perspective on […]
When the rules don’t matter
By Kyran O’Dwyer We are now three and a half years into the worst attempt at government the IPA has ever launched. At any level, […]
An open letter to the LNP regarding the Cashless Welfare Card
By Tina Clausen After having worked as a professional Social Worker for twenty years, including in agency management and interdisciplinary team leader positions, then having […]
John Howard “hardened the hearts of many Australians”
By Tony Dewberry How is it newsworthy that a retired politician was heckled in the street? Is ours a society where deference is demanded by […]
How to deal with being raped: two incompatible points of view
On ABC Qanda last night, Icelandic writer Thordis Elva spoke about how she had, over a seventeen year period, communicated with and finally forgiven Australian Tom […]
Alt-Right Hypocrisy and Degeneracy Exposed
By Christian Marx Yesterday’s poster boy for the far right Libertarian movement, Milo Yiannopoulos spectacularly fell from grace. This was unsurprising, as defending paedophilia and […]
More Letters from a Labor Activist: Dec 2016 – Jan 2017
By Dr Tristan Ewins What follows are another series of letters I have written to the ‘Herald-Sun’ and ‘The Age’ during the December 2016 to […]
It’s not your fault you are filled with hate
Got up this morning with one thing in mind, and that’s getting our young boy Noah ready for his first day at high school.In the […]
Customer Service is dead, at least at Optus
Customer Service is now Customer Obfuscation. I moved residence very early in January. During the week prior to the move I rang Optus to organise an […]
Dear Chris Kenny. When you lose your reproductive rights, then you can call us petulant.
There are people who should know better who seem to be unclear about the nature of democracy. I’m thinking of The Australian’s star turn Chris […]
Colin Barnett on a road to nowhere
By Tracie Aylmer On Thursday 12 January 2017 I went to a protest in order to protect the Beeliar Wetlands. There were around 1000 of […]
Hold our politicians to account? We can only try.
By Neil Hogan I think the time has finally arrived where we call all politicians for what they have become: parasites. They will not change […]
On politicians and the age of cruelty
Last night for bedtime reading I was flicking through the philosopher Seneca’s Letters from a Stoic. Seneca was born in Roman Spain about the same […]