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,…
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,…
On the eve of Anzac Day CIWI Committee Member Kellie Merritt, widow of Flight Lt. Paul Pardoel, Australia's first serviceman to be killed in Iraq during…
Today Australians for War Powers Reform launched a fundraising appeal through the crowd sourcing website pozible. The appeal is to enable us to produce and distribute to all…
Released in the lead up to the 12th anniversary of the war on Iraq in March 2015 the new media briefing kit from Australians for War Powers Reform offers seven papers on issues of importance when considering the question of reforming Australia’s war powers.
Prime Minister Abbott’s constant reference to ISIL as a “Death Cult” is a gross over-simplification of a complex conflict in the Arab world. It is intended…
So to no-one’s surprise, the Prime Minister says we are now in the ‘next phase’ of the fight against whatever it’s called. ISIS, ISIL, IS, Daesh,…
MEDIA RELEASE WEDNESDAY 4 MARCH, 2015 No clear mission - no SOFA? Following Prime Minister Abbott’s announcement of additional troops for Iraq, Australians for War Powers…
The following is the text of a presentation by CIWI President Paul Barratt to the Sydney Chapter of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, on the…
As the population of our ‘global village’ grows to more than 7.22 billion and mega-cities multiply, the world’s wilderness withers, agricultural land shrinks, oceans become waste…
Malcolm Fraser and Paul Barratt In “Parliamentary Vote Would Dangerously Restrict Executive in War” (The Australian, 2 September) Russell Trood and Anthony Bergin assert that the…