Overly Cautious and AUKUS Focused: The Albanese Government and the NPT
By Dr Aiden Warren In May 2022, Australia looked poised to move away from a long-term hedging and somewhat pedestrian position on nuclear non-proliferation. One year…
What is the US-Australia Force Posture Agreement (FPA)?
On May 21, 2023, IPAN held an online forum to discuss the controversial Force Posture Agreement. Lawyer and human rights activist Kellie Tranter made the following…
Playing Australia for suckers?
This is the transcript of a speech to the national Aukus webinar "The path to war" held on 26 March 2023 By Alison Broinowski Twenty years…
Iraq War 20th Anniversary – Former Senator Margaret Reynolds
There is a very disturbing irony in the fact that we mark the tragedy of Iraq at the same time as the Australian Government signs us…
The Albanese Submarine deal: A Transparency Free Zone
Today’s multi billion-dollar submarine announcement represents a serious failure of public policy with the Australian public and the national parliament shut out of the decision making…
Policy confusion over Nuclear Weapons on Australia soil
Senator Penny Wong was grilled in Senate estimates this week over whether nuclear weapons are being brought to Australia on visiting B-52 bombers. Her answers were…
Landmark “Citizen-led” report presented to Parliament
A new report produced by the national peace group IPAN has been tabled in parliament, following a two year “people’s inquiry”, investigating alternatives to our current…
AWPR Submission to the Defence Strategic Review
By Major Cameron Leckie (Retired) Introduction AWPR Australians for War Powers Reform (AWPR) is a community organisation whose mission is to ‘ensure that decisions for Australian…
Defending Australia or supporting warlike operations?
Editorial By AWPR President Alison Broinowski The Defence Strategic Review, now under way, will be nothing but a shopping list for the ADF, if it fails…
Stop AUKUS Petition tabled in Federal Parliament
A petition calling for the controversial AUKUS military pact to be cancelled has been presented to federal parliament. With almost 27,000 signatures the document also calls…