AWPR recently wrote a submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Inquiry into the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for Australia’s…
By Paul Barratt AO, AWPR President With its 2020 Defence Strategic Update and its 2020 Force Structure Plan the Morrison Government presents us with the military…
By Peter Hayes On 8 June 2020, The Australian carried the following online banner report: “The Five Eyes intelligence network of Australia, the US, Britain, Canada…
In January this year Dr Alison Broinowski, Vice President of Australians for War Powers Reform wrote the article Why are Australian forces still in Iraq? Broinowski said: “War is clearly…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
By Dr Alison Broinowski Immediately after the US drone assassination of Iran’s visiting senior general, Qassem Soleimani, the Iraqi Parliament voted to expel all foreign forces. This includes…
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,…