Farm Automation and Lab-Grown Meat: death-knell for country towns?
(I’d finished writing this article before a friend pointed out to me the issue of large Corporates buying up Australian water aquifer land overlays. Too […]
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Induced amnesia
By RosewmaryJ36 Nowadays it seems strange watching TV, film productions and documentaries from more than 30 years ago. Nearly everybody in them seems to be […]
Don’t blame Anangu!
By Tjimpuna Ruby Anangu Mayatja Council of Elders Uluru climb incident yesterday with the 12yo girl her injuries were much worse than what was reported. She […]
Religious protection – or protection FROM religious bigotry?
I have just emailed this to my Federal member who is a practising Catholic: “I was born in the UK and my maternal grandfather was […]
Corporate power – customer powerless
The Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry revealed very clearly a major flaw in the Corporations Act. The prime […]
The never-ending battle between religion and science
Probably around 1956, my later-to-be-husband and I were on a boat at anchor in a creek off the River Thames, babysitting his sister’s two children […]
Empathy. They have none.
Anne Ruston and Peter Dutton stand out among their Coalition colleagues, since both stand out as seeming to be supremely incapable of empathy. Their blindness […]
The FauxMo Road Show
FauxMo has now returned from his one man band tour to Washington. Invited by the orange PT Barnum (“there’s a sucker born every minute”) our […]
How bad does the LNP have to get before people stop voting for them?
By Kathryn Is it possible we could ever have a worse government than the Abbott/Turnbull/Morrison circus? Not to diminish the absolute mess the Howard/Costello government […]
Reason vs Emotion
The Pentateuch, which constitutes the first five books of the Christian Bible’s Old Testament, is attributable to Moses and also forms part of the Jewish […]
Withdrawing into an inner darkness … that is depression
Call it a product of modernity if you will, but it is not. Give it whatever name you desire. It has, to my way of […]
Nuclear energy – no way
This report was posted on Facebook today, being an article about Nationals Senator Sam McMahon and her disdain for renewable energy. It included the following: […]
On Intellectual Freedom in a Time of Denial
By Robert Wood The attacks on responsible freedom of expression are constant and ongoing. Readers might have seen my earlier piece for The AIMN, ‘The […]
On reaching the ripe age of 67 …
Tomorrow, touch wood, I reach the ripe old/young age of 67. Except for my family and friends that doesn’t necessarily mean all that much to […]
The growth of knowledge is getting away from us
When you look back over the last 400 to 500 years, the accelerating pace of scientific discovery is really startling. It is not just how […]