By Bevan Ramsden, Andrew Fullarton Donald Trump is not an aberration, but rather a symptom of the disease, not its cause. His election for a second term, an authoritarian racist and convicted felon, highlights the decay of the US empire domestically and internationally. It is surely high time for the Australian Government to abandon the dangerous illusion that being tied …
By Bevan Ramsden There has been a dramatic change in our strategic circumstances. United States reliability has been found wanting. This provides both a challenge and an opportunity. We now need an alternative self-defence policy which will safeguard our territory and enable the pursuit of peace in our region as an independent and responsible country. The US administration under Trump …
By Spirit of Eureka – National Ever since it’s signing in 1951, the ANZUS Treaty has been portrayed as a security guarantee that commits the US to come to the aid of Australia should it be attacked militarily. The reality is in fact that there is no concrete provision for this in the treaty. Nonetheless the treaty has been used …
By David Noonan Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has released an EPBC Act ‘Impact Assessment Report’ (IAR) to address the environmental impacts of constructing nuclear submarines at Osborne, Port Adelaide. A deluge of documents — the 200-page IAR with 750 pages of appendices — have been released for “public consultation” running till 17 March. However, the IAR fails to provide answers …
By Bevan Ramsden Never has there been a greater need for Australia to turn away from its military alliance with the United States and forge an independent and peaceful foreign policy. This would necessarily mean an alternative self-reliant defence policy and the forging of friendly and mutually beneficial relations with the fraternity of non-aligned/neutral nations. Even before the election of …
By Michelle Fahy Published with permission of the author https://undueinfluence.substack.com Australia’s independence has been dangerously compromised by Labor and Coalition governments, which have signed up to deep-rooted military agreements with the United States of America. These agreements have also underpinned the increasing militarisation of Australia: witness the 2022 speech by Labor’s Richard Marles, the newly appointed deputy prime minister, in …
By Shirley Winton This is a talk given by Shirley Winton at a public forum in Melbourne on 16 October, Fighting Inequality. Shirley’s talk addressed military spending in Australia and the US Alliance. Shirley spoke as a member of No AUKUS Coalition Vic and Independent and Peaceful Australia (Vic). Thank you for inviting me to speak at this forum. …
By Bevan Ramsden Successive Australian governments have allowed the United States to carry out a program of militarisation in Western Australia which has made it a vital U.S war-fighting base and thus an inevitable target for retaliatory strikes should hostilities commence, for example between the U.S and China. Much of this militarisation has been carried out behind a cloak of …
By Brian Boyd This is the second of a two part-series Rival trading blocs emerging Privately most major nation states are acknowledging that global trade is becoming dysfunctional. At the macro level that WTO has become powerless to prevent or even slow down the fracturing of the long-running, international ‘rules-based order’. On a regular basis China and the US exchange …
By Michael Williss A fresh warning that the US will lose a war with China has just been made by a US data analytics and military software company with US Department of Defense contracts. It seems no-one is prepared to back the US to win a war with China, so why is Australia going all-out to align itself with provocative …
