Doing things differently
By Dr Alison Broinowski, AWPR Vice-PresidentAustralians, like people everywhere, are dying to get back to normal. As long as that doesn’t include actually dying, of course.…
Trump vetoes resolution to curb war powers against Iran
As reported here, on Wednesday 6 May, President Trump vetoed a war powers resolution that would have curbed his ability to direct military action against Iran without…
Letter to the Leader of the Opposition regarding Iran
Dear Mr AlbaneseNo War with Iran: No War without ParliamentI write on behalf of Australians for War Powers Reform, an organisation dedicated to achieving Parliamentary involvement…
Letter to the Prime Minister regarding Iran
Dear Mr MorrisonNo War with Iran: No War without ParliamentI refer to my letters of 27 June 2019 and 13 August 2019 on the above matter.In light of…
No war with Iran: No war without parliament
Our correspondence with the Prime Minister regarding Iran, 2019Letter to the Prime Minister27 June 2019Dear Mr MorrisonI write on behalf of Australians for War Powers Reform,…
Boys hold missile shrapnel they collected from the site of a Saudi-led airstrike in Sanaa, Yemen. Canberra-made weapons are being sold to the Saudi Arabian government. Photograph: Khaled Abdullah/Reuters
Should Australia be doing arms deals with Saudi Arabia?
The war in Yemen is again in the headlines following an airstrike outside a rural hospital in Yemen’s north west last week which the BBC reports killed at…
Inside Story: How, and Why, We Go to War
Inside Story, August 2018By any standards the soldiers of the ADF’s Special Air Service regiment, or SAS, based in Perth, are elite troops. They are extraordinarily…
Croakey: Chilcot: the costs of war and silence
Croaky, July 2016The Chilcot report into the UK’s involvement in the 2003 invasion of Iraq was long overdue when it finally saw the light of day…
The Somme Villers-Bretonneux Australian National War Memorial. Photo: Alamy (via Fairfax)
Time to judge our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Reports of alleged breaches of the laws of war by Australian special forces in Afghanistan have drawn attention again to the length of the war itself…
Australian troops waiting for US Army helicopters to return to base in Nui Dat, South Vietnam, August 1967.
Image: Michael Coleridge via Wikimedia Commons
The Con
Metaphorically, if society resembles a rug, then certainly ‘we’ are not supposed to peek under it, to check out the weave, to gain some specific insight…
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