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 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 …
By Richard Stone The official medal to a top US spook in Canberra has provided little room for ambiguity when assessing the close working relationship between the Australian and US intelligence services. They are closely linked. Australia has, therefore, been drawn ever closer to the US through diplomatic agreements, and continues to host their sensitive military and intelligence facilities. The …
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 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 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 …
By Brian Boyd, July 2023 This is the first of a three part-series that examines the strategic reasons for the AUKUS pact and the dangers for Australia. INTRODUCTIONThe first half of 2023 saw the political position of Australia changing dramatically, specifically in relation to the often stated “dangerous deterioration in relations between the two superpowers”, the US and China. This …
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 …
This statement came from IPAN’s Facebook page On this ANZAC Day we remember all Australians who were killed in war, those who were incarcerated and abused as prisoners of war and those who sustained physical and psychological injuries as a result of war. We remember the many millions of civilian victims of war who have been killed, injured, raped and …
