20 years on questions persist about the Iraq Cabinet Papers
The Howard government was preparing for war a year before the final decision. How did senior public servants conclude that Australia’s involvement was legal under…
Why is Australia supporting US strikes across the Middle East?
The Albanese government should withdraw its public support for the latest US air strikes on Iraq and Syria. The attacks on 85 targets without a United…
Questions continue over the Iraq Cabinet Papers
By Alison Broinowski The investigation ordered by the Prime Minister into 78 cabinet documents missing since 2003 has produced some revelations about Australia’s invasion of Iraq.…
The four reasons there were no ‘lessons learnt’ from Iraq about futile wars
By Alison Broinowski - This article was first published in The Canberra Times The cabinet papers released by the National Archives always keep Australian media…
Simon Crean 1949-2023
Twenty years after Australia illegally invaded Iraq, Simon Crean who was then Opposition leader, has died. For decades a critic of how Australia goes to war,…
Penny Wong opposes Democratic Oversight
Has Australia’s Foreign Minister, who advocates international law and human rights, surrendered to the hawks in Canberra? Senator Penny Wong told Parliament yesterday that the way…
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…
Why are Australian forces still in Iraq?
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…
Parliament split on going to war: Remember 2003?
As calls increase for reform of the flawed process by which Australian troops can be sent to war, and in particular for parliamentary debate and vote…
ANZUS minus NZ, again?
Tony Abbott’s visit to New Zealand on 26 February was carefully coordinated with John Key’s announcement of a Kiwi military deployment to Iraq. At 143 ‘combat-trainers’…