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 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 Neil Hooley Sovereignty is the central question for recognition, expression, treaty and republic. It cannot be ignored as current discussions unfortunately have. However it may not be possible for any country to be entirely sovereign in the modern world, given the dominance and interrelationships of economic systems and the implications of decisions made in one country on many others. …

by Binoy Kampmark Australian concepts of sovereignty have always been qualified. First came the British settlers and invaders in 1788. They are pregnant with the sovereignty of the British Crown, bringing convicts, the sadistic screws, and forced labour to a garrison of penal experiments and brutality. The native populations are treated as nothing more than spares, opportunistic chances, and fluff …

The 10 o’clock Thursday lecture on twentieth-century Australian History had barely begun when one of my students, Steve Padgem, burst into the Hayden-Allen tank shouting: ‘The cops are pulling down the tent embassy! We need help to stop them!’ The class moved from thinking back on what had happened in this country, into playing our small part in shaping its future. …