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 Eileen Darley, Convener Port Adelaide Community Opposes AUKUS (PACOA) The Greens and Senator Sarah Hanson-Young held a public meeting on the 13th of March in Port Adelaide to inform and give residents an opportunity to express their concerns about the building of the AUKUS nuclear-powered submarines and the accompanying nuclear waste at the Osborne Naval Shipyard. We reproduce the …
By Michael Williss More than 120 residents of the Port Adelaide area attended a meeting October 26, 2024, called by the Port Adelaide Community Opposes AUKUS (PACOA). The meeting began with MC and local resident Eileen Darley introducing former WA Senator Jo Valentine by video link. Jo expressed solidarity from WA opponents of AUKUS and gave a detailed account of …
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 …
By Bevan Ramsden* There is significant community, including trade union, opposition to the Labor Government’s embrace of AUKUS and its proposed spend of $368 billion on acquisition of nuclear -powered submarines. That opposition is spreading to the Labor Party’s own rank and file branches. The ALP leadership is undeterred by this opposition and one must ask why? Does fear of …
Media Release from The Australian Independent Media Network As international tensions rise to a new level, with the Ukraine war passing its first anniversary and the Albanese Government set to announce its commitment of hundreds of billions of dollars to new weaponry, nuclear propelled subs, Stealth bombers etc, The Road to War brings into sharp focus why it is not …
