I write about Aboriginal Australians. When my articles are shared on Facebook or Twitter they can bring out the ugly types who spew their hateful, racist, spiteful threats.
Not here, though. You people are tops.
It’s their sixth sense.
Every year - as soon as the Christmas tree goes up - she sits next to it staring out the window, waiting for Santa to come.
Australia now wears that toxic crown.
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Brownsville, We Have a Problem
By James Moore I have never bought into the hype and general BS of Elon Musk. His visions for his businesses and the future of humanity and technology, while often engaging, strike me as without basis in reality. There is, in fact, a bit of language that reveals much about Musk and his various endea..
Would be perfect for anyone called Michael Taylor.
Meet the pūteketeke: voted New Zealand’s Bird of the Century.
And as is the norm these days, cries of “rigged election” are being grumbled.
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Rigging Avian Ballots: New Zealand’s Bird of the Century Competition
They can be a serious lot in New Zealand. They got upset at – forgive this author such reference – the use of a rule in cricket back in February 1981 which led to expressions of misty anger from the Prime Minister of the day, Robert Muldoon. While permissible within the laws of cricket, sides&hellip..
Remembering that tragic day, almost sixty years ago.
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The Day Democracy Died
By James Moore The 60th Anniversary of the Slaying of John Fitzgerald Kennedy “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” – John Adams I remember that the day was typical for a Michigan Novem..
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Highlights from the Refugee Walk For A Fair Go
Fifteen Tamil and Iranian refugee women walked 300 kms from Sydney to Canberra to raise awareness of the plight of 10,000+ refugees held in limbo for over 10 years. We are a group of refugees who were processed through the flawed Fast Track process introduced by the previous government. We were very..
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"Shoot, Shovel, and Shut Up": Texas Anti-Immigration Laws
By James Moore The U.S. Constitution is under attack. Christo-fascists are trying to turn a secular document into a religious proclamation. They want their Jesus back in public schools, prayer before classes, and the Ten Commandments plastered on all four walls with End Times nonsense whispered into..
State Power and the Left today
The other day I saw another post by a Conservative trashing Marxism and arguing that Marxism had never succeeded in practice. In response I argued that it depends on how you measure success. There may never have been a communist government of the sort Marx envisaged. Some regimes were a macabre paro..
It’s hard to express how sad this story is.
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The Boys of Praha
By James Moore (It is Veterans Day Weekend [here in the USA], and as is my personal tradition, I am sharing again my story on “The Boys of Praha.” I wrote this original narrative about twenty years ago for the “American Legion Magazine,” when I came across the history of this little Texas parish. I&..
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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! The nation is depending upon your resolve. We must exhaust every available legal remedy to restore Americans’ trust in the fairness of our ele..
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The Second Casualty
By James Moore “In war, truth is the first casualty.” – Aeschylus, Greek Dramatist One morning in the spring of my twentieth year, I awoke in a tent on the east bank of the Potomac River. The sun had not yet transited the horizon but there was enough light for people to begin moving and&..
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Rishi Sunak’s AI Pitch: The Bletchley Declaration
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak looks as much a deep fake projection as a thin, superficial representation of reality. His robotic, risible awkwardness makes a previous occupant of his office, Theresa May, look soppily human in comparison. But at the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park, the nervou..
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Climate change deniers, theocrats and neoliberals meet in London for the scariest Halloween Party
It was helpful of Greg Sheridan to advertise in The Australian (27/10) the new ultraconservative conference that he is attending in London. While his column is no doubt intended to recruit, it is useful in shining a spotlight on a traditionally shadowy architecture of influence. Apparently 1,500 cit..
But I just can’t think of any.
Pub View: Snowy Hydro
By Allan Richardson So Snowy 2.0 is going to be over budget? That puts it in the classification of ‘Project’. It’s time to put everything in perspective. When drilling, or attempting to drill 27 kilometres of tunnels, it should come as no surprise that the geology is not necessaril..
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Lies, damn lies and politics
Apparently during the recent referendum, there were a number of social media posts that suggested if Australia had voted for the proposed Voice to Parliament all sorts of dire consequences would occur. Some claimed that we would all lose our homes. The same claim was made at the time of the Mabo Dec..
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When a real estate owner requests proof of the housing crisis
Nobody likes to see people suffer, and the lack of affordable housing and affordable rental, as experienced by Narelle, is nothing short of endemic. Narelle is a long-time reader and supporter of The AIMN and without hesitation we have encouraged her to tell her story here. Continued from Part 1: Se..
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All Hail Our Glorious Leader: Rupert Murdoch
The people of Australia have rejected the divisive ideas of the right to the point that the only jurisdiction that retains a right-wing government in Australia is the smallest state in the land – and even in Tas this grip on power is waning. Yet even though the right-wing political parties in our co..
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Where's the money gone?
Refugee Action Coalition Media Release Where’s the money gone? PNG secret deal leaves refugees without food vouchers or allowances. Transport cut, medical treatment under threat. Following on from cuts to electricity and threats of eviction, PNG refugees, this week, have been left without food..
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Nuclear-Powered Fixations: The Trump-Pratt Disclosures
In April 2021, the Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt had a meeting with Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago club. According to an ABC News report, “Pratt told Trump he believed Australia should start buying its submarines from the United States, to which an excited Trump – ‘leaning’ towards Pratt as i..
I'm an angry bigot, in a tiny country town
My first love is satire and comedy – I used to run Radio Mango Productions in Mackay many moons ago and we wrote and recorded comedy skits for radio (Postcards from the Edge, In a Workplace Near U, etc). I normally just post the incidental stuff on my FB page, but every now and again…
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If you only read one thing about the referendum today, this one is a good choice.
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Condensed Fun Facts, Dates, Myths/Misconceptions
By Richard Whitington Fun Referendum Facts Fun Referendum Facts #1: The ballot paper for a referendum has just one box on it and you must write “Yes” or “No” in it. If you use a tick or a cross or a number (1), your vote will be invalid. Fun Referendum Facts #2: The 24-year gap…
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