The Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN) has launched a national People’s Inquiry into the costs and consequences of Australia’s involvement in US-led wars and the…
By Jack Worthy In a year beset by a global pandemic, attendant economic instability, a tumultuous US election, and foundering global diplomacy, reflection inevitably trends to…
by Dr Alison Broinowski Iran has been on the US most-hated list for a long time. That shouldn’t make it an enemy of Australia. If either…
By AWPR President Paul Barratt AO For Australians for War Powers Reform the high point of a very busy year has to be the introduction on…
On the eve of the US election here are a few timely reads: "The world’s confidence in US power and the moral authority it once commanded…
By AWPR Vice-President Dr Alison Broinowski In 1961 President Eisenhower warned that a vast and permanent ‘military-industrial complex’ could produce ‘the disastrous rise of misplaced power’.…
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…
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…
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…
Inside Story, August 2018By any standards the soldiers of the ADF’s Special Air Service regiment, or SAS, based in Perth, are elite troops. They are extraordinarily…