Who leaks?
Welcome to another Your Say. Can we talk about leaks? They certainly have been big news this week: Senior Minister Ian Macfarlane has described as […]
Articles by Michael Taylor
Imagine the uproar if the government shut down the water supply to a ‘white’ community
How quickly things change. In the 1990s the government’s National Homelands Policy encouraged Indigenous Australians to return to their traditional lands where they could live […]
Our great white God prefers white people
There are times in our lives when we witness or hear something that belittles an individual, the act of which repulses us and the memory […]
Living on traditional land is not a lifestyle choice – it is an obligation
It is clear that Tony Abbott has no idea why Aboriginal people make the ‘lifestyle choice’ to live in remote communities, or God forbid, their […]
ICC hits out at Tony Abbott over treatment of Gillian Triggs
The appalling treatment of Human Rights Commission (HRC) president Gillian Triggs at the hands of Prime Minster Tony Abbott and Attorney General George Brandis has […]
Tony Abbott’s horror week is now news in Indonesia
American think tank the Council on Foreign Relations made the headlines in Australia this week when their scathing report on Tony Abbott, aptly titled ‘Tony […]
Will Tony Abbott’s words come back to haunt him?
Anyone who has been on Twitter today would have no doubt seen this tweet from any number of Twitter users: Electronic graffiti? “@TeddyMercer: The Internet […]
Who will build our submarines? The highest bidder, or the highest voter?
Just who is going to build our submarines? The Coalition entered the 2013 election committed to the Defence White Paper’s recommendation that 12 new submarines […]
Tony Abbott has again succeeded in getting us to focus on what’s unimportant
Some politicians – Tony Abbott an expert among them – realise the importance of dictating the terms of public discourse. That is, to get us […]
Abbott admits he’s wasting 4.3 million taxpayer dollars
Tony Abbott “continues to make the most astounding, cringe-worthy gaffes that stretch all credulity” writes Jennifer Wilson. This, today from a Prime Minister who spends […]
The CSIRO and the missing climate change data
Kirsten Tona’s article on Newpolitics.com.au – Government ignoring climate change while the planet burns (and published on The AIMN as Canberra fiddles while Australia burns) […]
Does the average person realise how much the Abbott Government is helping the wealthy?
In opposition and in government, the Coalition has moaned with frenetic monotony that Medicare is unsustainable. The fact is, it isn’t. But while they can […]
2014: the Top 5
Hundreds of quality articles were published on The AIMN in 2014. Which ones were the most popular with our readers? Unsurprisingly, each of the Top […]
Bring on the New Year
We are soon to close the doors on 2014. Am I right in presuming that we’ll all be glad to see the back of it? […]
Merry Christmas
Last year Carol and I spent Christmas in the United States where we were showered with season’s greetings – the Americans are a friendly people […]