By AWPR President Paul Barratt AO The recent announcement by the United States Government that it will reduce its armed force numbers in Iraq from 5200 to about 3000 in…
By AWPR President Paul Barratt AO The Government’s cuts to our diplomatic service are at odds with the raised threat levels perceived by the Prime Minister, and its increased defence…
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…
'Two former heads of the Australian War Memorial, former ambassadors and several ex-departmental secretaries have called for a reversal of the institution's "grandiose" $500m expansion plan, saying the money should…
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…
by Paul Barratt AO, AWPR President We hear a lot from our government about the “rules-based international order” and we would be the first to agree it is of fundamental…
By Peter Hayes On 8 June 2020, The Australian carried the following online banner report: “The Five Eyes intelligence network of Australia, the US, Britain, Canada and New Zealand has…
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…