By Bevan Ramsden The United States is increasing its military footprint on Australia and Pacific and Pacific Rim countries as it prepares for war against China. In Australia, the Force Posture Agreement (FPA) and large scale war exercises such as Talisman Sabre and RIMPAC, integrate our ADF with the US military and under the US Indo-Pacific Command in preparation for …

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 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 …

Brief Speech by Shirley Winton * at a Melbourne rally outside the meeting of QUAD members on 10 February. This was a quickly organised small but lively snap rally protesting outside the Quad meeting led by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and foreign ministers from India, Japan and Australia.  As Blinken and other foreign ministers arrived in bullet proof …