Australian complicity in civilian deaths in Iraq and Syria: A matter of time
An RAAF FA-18 refuelling over Iraq in March 2017. Image courtesy of US Air Force via Wikimedia Commons As Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has made it…
What are we doing in Syria?
The alacrity with which the Prime Minister came out in support of the Trump Administration’s launch of 59 Tomahawk missiles against an air force base in…
The hideous Syrian tragedy
Our armed forces have been deployed abroad opportunistically, even cynically, for decades. This must be avoided in future if they are to serve Australia’s true defence…
Freedom of Information Request: deployments 2014-2017
FOI Coordinator, GPO Box 5218, Sydney NSW 2001 Dear Coordinator, On behalf of Australians for War Powers Reform (AWPR) I hereby submit a request for documents and…
Open letter to PM Turnbull: RAAF Operations in Syria and related matters
Dear Mr Turnbull, RAAF Operations in Syria and related matters. I refer to the recent operation around Deir al-Zor military airport in Eastern Syria, in which…
We must get out of Syria
The war in Syria is extraordinarily complex. It really began in 2011 with the failures of the so-called Arab Spring. Now the core conflict is between forces…
The Syrian Air Strike ‘Mistake’: Australia Loyally Pleads Guilty
On Saturday 18 September 2016 four ‘coalition’ aircraft carried out strikes on Syrian government forces encircled by ISIS fighters near Deir-ez-Zor airport. The strikes killed more…