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 the last thing the…
By Dr Alison Broinowski Australians, like people everywhere, are dying to get back to normal. As long as that doesn’t include actually dying, of course. Most of us are pragmatically…
As reported here, on Wednesday 6 May, President Trump vetoed a war powers resolution that would have curbed his ability to direct military action against Iran without Congress' authorisation. This is…
Dear Mr AlbaneseNo War with Iran: No War without ParliamentI write on behalf of Australians for War Powers Reform, an organisation dedicated to achieving Parliamentary involvement in any decision Australia…
Dear Mr MorrisonNo War with Iran: No War without ParliamentI refer to my letters of 27 June 2019 and 13 August 2019 on the above matter.In light of recent developments I write…
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 some 5,000 Americans along…
Our correspondence with the Prime Minister regarding Iran, 2019Letter to the Prime Minister27 June 2019Dear Mr MorrisonI write on behalf of Australians for War Powers Reform, an organisation dedicated to…
The war in Yemen is again in the headlines following an airstrike outside a rural hospital in Yemen’s north west last week which the BBC reports killed at least eight people, five…
Reports of alleged breaches of the laws of war by Australian special forces in Afghanistan have drawn attention again to the length of the war itself and its apparent ultimate…
Metaphorically, if society resembles a rug, then certainly ‘we’ are not supposed to peek under it, to check out the weave, to gain some specific insight or understanding into the…