By Michael Willis The first operational outcome of the Pillar 2 AUKUS arrangement between the US, UK and Australia has just been announced. The three countries will share data from their submarine-hunting PA-8 Poseidon aircraft, manufactured by the troubled Boeing Corporation. This was announced on May 29 in an “exclusive interview” given to US online website Breaking Defense by Michael …
May 2024, Melbourne Thank you May Day Committee for inviting us to speak on AUKUS, war and imperialism. I’m on the stolen lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulan nation, never ceded. I pay myrespects to their elders past present and emerging and stand in solidarity with the FirstNations people of this country in their 260 year long struggle …
by Bevan Ramsden Neutrality offers Australia a foreign policy alternative which would keep us out of a U.S.-China war. Although this position is favoured by over two thirds of Australians, the presence of U.S. military bases on our soil and the government’s embrace of the AUKUS pact, block its adoption. Non-nuclear armed neutrality is the basis of an alternative defence …
Spend $368 billion on health, education, affordable housing and fix the climate crisis!Not on nuclear submarines and US led war! Australia wide events and protest actions were held, 14 – 24 March 2024, for Peace, end AUKUS, cancel nuclear submarines and mobilise against war. The 14th March marks the anniversary of a joint meeting by US President Biden, UK Prime …
By Bevan Ramsden Current Australian defence policy involves close integration with the United States military in all areas, making an independent foreign policy impossible and ensuring Australia’s automatic involvement in US-instigated wars such as a war with China, our major trading partner. A policy of neutrality would free Australia from involvement in such disastrous military adventures and enable the pursuit …
by Richard Stone In April, the Australian government selected US arms manufacturer Lockheed Martin to partner the Department of Defence to build the JP Defence Satellite Communications system following the tender process. It has shown the age-old concept of the military-industrial complex is alive and well in Australia, with all that area of state activity entails with security vetting procedures …
By David Noonan First published in in Adelaide Voices p.15-16 Sept 2023 Hiroshima and Nagasaki were cities, civilian populations, blasted, burnt and irradiated by the first Atomic-Bombs. On 6th of August 1945 Hiroshima was the ‘primary target’ for use of the first High Enriched Uranium (HEU) A-Bomb intended to destroy a city. They wanted good pictures of the bomb-blast and …
Civil society statement for the 70th anniversary of the first mainland nuclear test in Australia from ICAN 70 years ago on 15 October 1953 the first nuclear weapon tested on mainland Australia was detonated at Emu Field, south of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) lands of South Australia, as part of Operation Totem. No consent was sought or given by …
By Brian Boyd, July 2023 This is the third of a three part-series that examines the strategic reasons for the AUKUS pact and the dangers for Australia. REAL NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY While Prime Minister Albanese, Foreign Minister Wong and Defence Minister Marles have gone to great pains to insist that Australia’s ‘national sovereignty’ will govern the operations of the future nuclear …
by Richard Stone Recent coverage about the diplomatic significance of President Biden not attending the ASEAN summit has tended to concentrate upon information of questionable relevance while ignoring the significance of related matters. The growing significance of ASEAN as a regional trade body in the most dynamic sector of the global economy and the strategic nature of some member countries, …
