Let’s Talk Alternative Defence for Australia—Free from the US Alliance

Speakers: Shirley Winton, David Shoebridge, Alison Broinowski and Pascal Lottaz

REGISTER HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/.../reg.../imZU6Lk0Qtmp8rcFRUsCow...

This national webinar will:
• Showcase IPAN'S Alternative Self-Defence Policy
• Highlight the Greens' Genuine Australian Defence Policy
• Discuss diplomacy as the first line of defence (from a diplomat's perspective), and
• Explore why neutrality is a viable peace alternative to military alliances

Current Australian defence policy is based on interoperability and interchangeability with the United States.
This dependent relationship has drawn Australia into disastrous wars, including Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq.

Can Australia defend itself without participation in the US alliance? Are alternative defence policies possible? What would a genuine self defence posture look like in a truly independent Australia