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Dutton is a man of little compassion and…

All that I had predicted about Peter Dutton has come to pass. His comparing the 1996 mass murder of 35 people at Port Arthur with a pro-Palestine...

26.04.2024 10

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Nuclear Energy: A Layperson's Dilemma

In 2013, I wrote a piece titled, “Climate Change: A layperson’s Dilemma” in which I pointed out the debunked theories of people like Andrew...

19.04.2024 10

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Triumph over Dutton-style politics: A retrospective look

Of course, any election will have various reasons for why a particular candidate or party won or lost. Therefore, what I write can only be taken as my...

29.03.2024 10

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What has age got to do with it?

The ongoing commentary about the relative ages of the two Presidential candidates is becoming tedious. What matters most is their ability to lead. By...

22.03.2024 5

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Significant changes to a worn-out Australian democracy require…

Continued from Significant changes to a worn-out Australian democracy require some positivity from Peter Dutton Let’s envision a future where...

09.03.2024 40

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Significant changes to a worn-out Australian democracy require…

Continued from Is Australian democracy at risk from an authoritarian leader? One day on a tranquil Sunday, I found myself lost in thought as...

08.03.2024 9

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Is Australian democracy at risk from an authoritarian…

Continued from Authoritarianism is taking over the world. Will it snare Australia? To recap, in Part 1 I wrote that: In recent years, we have...

01.03.2024 7

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Authoritarianism is taking over the world. Will it…

It would seem that many countries around the world have decided that democracy has run its race. Russia, India, Hungary, Turkey, Poland, China,...

23.02.2024 7

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Sky News; where facts don't seem to matter

At the risk of arousing my natural bias toward the truth, I have of late taken to reading Sky News . I have done so during the events surrounding...

16.02.2024 50

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What will the conservatives campaign on at the…

Now that Australians have, depending on where they live, gotten through fires and floods or too many days at the cricket drinking excessively, some...

09.02.2024 8

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Money, money, money. It's a rich man's world.

The headline conveys a tale of acquisition, narcissism, and unimaginable wealth. The world is overflowing with money inherited, earned honestly or...

02.02.2024 9

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It's a nasty business this, being in Opposition

A few years back, 2016 to be exact, I wrote a piece for The AIMN suggesting that being in Opposition was a thankless, powerless task with few...

26.01.2024 30

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The Mystery of why Scott Morrison is still…

On May 21 2022, Scott Morrison and his corrupt bunch of cronies were thrown out of office. Most Prime Ministers who have lost their hold on power...

19.01.2024 10

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2024: A Year of Change for Labor

It seems that whenever Labor comes to power, it is under the worst possible economic conditions. If you have a long memory, you will recall the period...

05.01.2024 10

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Negativity Bias: What is it and how it’s…

In the final two months of 2023, the Australian political landscape was plagued by negative bias campaigning tactics similar to those of Tony...

15.12.2023 10

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As I get older, change becomes both a…

Indeed, we only change once it gets too uncomfortable to stay the same. A philosopher once said: “The secret of change is to focus all your...

08.12.2023 20

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After 18 months of waiting to be born…

Within my social media circle and in the news reporting I read, there is growing support for the view that Dutton and the LNP are ripe to win the next...

01.12.2023 30

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The demise of social cohesion is what threatens…

Internal bickering between ingrained, imported, or cultivated groups can have the most ruinous consequences for a nation’s social cohesion,...

24.11.2023 7

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The mystery of polls is that they tell…

They tell us very little, but we are still fascinated by them. Me included. At this time in the election cycle, polls suggest zero about who will win...

17.11.2023 9

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Who is this guy?

1 Who but a devotee of Trump would say such a thing?: “I have just called President Trump to say this: “Stay strong and keep fighting, sir!...

09.11.2023 10

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Are you being manipulated or just a victim…

In my 10 years writing for The AIMN, the world has changed significantly. Governments worldwide have shifted to the right or have other...

03.11.2023 8

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The man who wants to be Prime Minister

One thing that stood out in the result of the Voice referendum is that being totality negative has little chance of winning back Government for Peter...

27.10.2023 6

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We've all heard it: "I'm not a racist,…

I must begin by congratulating Murdoch’s news media and the Australian Conservative political parties for their successful long-term character...

20.10.2023 6

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What did the NO vote actually achieve?

Today, we know the result of this referendum that has hung over us for what seems an eternity. According to the polls and the media (notably News...

14.10.2023 7

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Murdoch to Murdoch

(You may have read a lot about Rupert Murdoch recently, but read on.) Hatred is a terrible word. It is a word that carries the most terrible...

06.10.2023 7

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From my "To read" list comes nothing but…

Now, how do I tackle this? Do I use the information in my “To read” list as source material for another article, or do I use it all as an overview...

29.09.2023 8

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The ALP is best prepared to take us…

There’s a myth created by the Coalition as far back as I care to remember and perpetuated for many years since which is nothing more or nothing less...

22.09.2023 7

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A legacy of racism with a grief that…

Aboriginal people have walked and toiled the lands of this vast continent for over 65,000 years. They have done so, having inherited the custodianship...

15.09.2023 8

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In this rush to another Age of Enlightenment,…

Continued from The Times they are Changing . Yes, we are on the verge of another era of Enlightenment. From a world where we made enormous...

07.09.2023 8

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