Editorial: ADF Iraq, Afghanistan and Middle East deployments require scrutiny by Parliament
By Paul Barratt AO, AWPR President The recent announcement by the United States Government that it will reduce its armed force numbers in Iraq from 5200…
Editorial: What about soft power?
By AWPR President Paul Barratt AO The Government’s cuts to our diplomatic service are at odds with the raised threat levels perceived by the Prime Minister,…
The military industrial intelligence security complex
By Dr Alison Broinowski, AWPR Vice-President In 1961 President Eisenhower warned that a vast and permanent ‘military-industrial complex’ could produce ‘the disastrous rise of misplaced power’.…
War Memorial expansion controversy
'Two former heads of the Australian War Memorial, former ambassadors and several ex-departmental secretaries have called for a reversal of the institution's "grandiose" $500m expansion plan,…
Submission to Joint Standing Committee On Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade
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…
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…
The explosion at Natanz and the rules-based international order
by Paul Barratt AO, AWPR President We hear a lot from our government about the “rules-based international order” and we would be the first to agree…
Harnessing Five-Eyes Intelligence Sharing Partners to Frustrate China
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…
17 years and counting
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…
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