DFAT cuts reduce influence
In July, Australian diplomats were under the spotlight but for the wrong reasons. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) announced it was cutting 60 positions…
Editorial: The Morrison Government’s 2020 Force Structure Plan
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…
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…
Sydney Morning Herald: Parliamentary debate on going to war is long overdue
Sydney Morning Herald, March 2018This week marks the 15th anniversary, on March 20, of one of Australia's most disastrous foreign policy decisions – our involvement in…
The Conversation: War and Democracy – Who Decides?
The Conversation, November 2017In March 2003, the Howard government involved Australia in an illegal military invasion of Iraq. The consequences of that war continue to be devastating…
Sydney Morning Herald:Parliament, not ministers, must decide Australia’s response to a Korean war
Sydney Morning Herald, 2017The possibility of war between the United States and North Korea – particularly a war triggered by one too many provocative moves by…
Letter to the new Parliament
Dear (Parliamentarian), Report of The Iraq Inquiry (Chilcot Report) Congratulations on your election to the 45th Federal Parliament. I write in connection with the Report of…
Launch: “How Does Australia Go To War?”
MEDIA RELEASE Wednesday, June 24, 2015 As concern spreads in Australia about what our latest military intervention in Iraq is for and where it will end,…
Roy Morgan poll on going to war
We are told that our troops fight to preserve our democracy. That democracy appears to be missing-in-action when the nation goes to war. Australians for War Powers Reform, a project of the Campaign for an Iraq War Inquiry (Inc), commissioned a public opinion poll that was conducted by Roy Morgan in October 2014. The full results can be downloaded from our website, with the weighted results on page 5 being most representative.
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