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’. Earlier, US Senators Robert La…
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 foreign affairs, defence and…
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 in response to a…
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 dimensions of its response…
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 highly trained and extraordinarily…
Croaky, July 2016The Chilcot report into the UK’s involvement in the 2003 invasion of Iraq was long overdue when it finally saw the light of day last week. Even so,…
Sydney Morning Herald, March 2018This week marks the 15th anniversary, on March 20, of one of Australia's most disastrous foreign policy decisions – our involvement in the invasion of Iraq.…
The Conversation, November 2017In March 2003, the Howard government involved Australia in an illegal military invasion of Iraq. The consequences of that war continue to be devastating for the people of…
Sydney Morning Herald, 2017The possibility of war between the United States and North Korea – particularly a war triggered by one too many provocative moves by an unpredictable leader, leading…
Dear (Parliamentarian), Report of The Iraq Inquiry (Chilcot Report) Congratulations on your election to the 45th Federal Parliament. I write in connection with the Report of The Iraq Inquiry (Chilcot…