By Richard Stone Moves by Kiribati to negotiate a deep-sea mining deal with China, have closely followed similar moves by the Cook Islands. The moves have taken place against a backcloth of underlying trends in the global economy and a changing balance of forces, with far-reaching implications for US hegemony. The two tiny Pacific Island countries have, for example, geo-strategic …
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 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 Brian Boyd, July 2023 This is the second of a three part-series that examines the strategic reasons for the AUKUS pact and the dangers for Australia. SILENCE With the growing global tensions, the Australian government is, so far, remaining silent on what is the actual existential military threat facing our nation. For some years a bevy of pro-US …
Leaflet produced by Spirit of Eureka – Victoria The AUKUS military pact between the US, UK and Australia is dragging Australia into another US led war. The US is expanding its military and intelligence bases across Australia, turning Australia into a major USmilitary base, a launching pad for its war against China. China’s rapid economic rise is challenging US global …
By Richard Stone Economic forecasting of the dominant players in the Indo-Pacific has revealed a significant challenge to traditional US-led hegemonic positions over the next decade and the future. The relative economic decline of Japan will have far-reaching implications for US foreign policy and global alliance; Australia has not fared a great deal better. The problem has already been, and …
18 March Melbourne Peace rally Talk by Shirley Winton (member of No AUKUS Victoria/AAAC and IPAN) On behalf of Peace Roundtable Melbourne welcome everyone and thank you for coming on this scorching hot day. I would like to especially acknowledge the people who have travelled many hours from across Victoria to attend this important rally. They are from South West …
by Binoy Kampmark The AUKUS alliance is increasingly adopting a nuclear tone. First came the promise to furnish Australia with nuclear powered submarines, absent nuclear weapons, a point that did not dissuade critics such as Indonesia. Then came the announcement to deploy six B-52 bombers to the Northern Territory’s Tindal airbase, south of Darwin, an exercise underwritten by the Pentagon. …
A Commentary… By Brian Boyd, October 2022 This is the third of a three part series that looks into the current geo-politics and what it means for Australia. ARMS RACE It is legitimate for any country to be concerned about economic influences that impact negatively on their respective national economies, be it from China or from any other country. It …
by Humphrey McQueen, March 31, 2022, Canberra My father has been dead for fifty years. He was going on for seventy-two, and had been doing on that Friday in late October 1971 what he had done for most of his life: labouring in a tannery. As usual on Friday nights, he brought home fish-and-chips and a bottle of Fourex, to …
