Delegates to Labor’s national conference were greeted by two large protests, as well as a number of smaller actions, demanding that AUKUS be scrapped and communities and climate action be funded. Markela Panegyres reports.
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Labor foreign minister Penny Wong is outraged that China is testing its intercontinental ballistic missile, saying it is is “destabilising” for the region. However, as Pip Hinman writes, the RIMPAC26 military exercises — on now, based off Hawai’i — provoke war.
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese claims he wants Labor’s national conference to “showcase” the party as inclusive, open and democratic. But he is just as committed to avoid discussing AUKUS and Palestine, despite sharp internal divisions on both. Markela Panegyres reports.
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Of the three countries involved in AUKUS, Australia has been the only one to be indifferent to the need for an inquiry into its merits, argues Binoy Kampmark.
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More than 100 activists protested outside the Perth Convention Centre where the Indian Ocean Defence and Security Conference and Exhibition was promoting militarism. Cas Smith reports.
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While Australia’s minister for war Richard Marles came back from the annual “Shangri-La dialogue” selling AUKUS like never before, a people’s inquiry into AUKUS has been launched. Pip Hinman reports.
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A secret government report said that while Port Kembla is the assessment’s preferred site for an East Coast nuclear submarine base, Muloobinba remains under consideration. Steve O’Brien reports.
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Markela Panegyres spoke to Aunty Sue Coleman-Haseldine, a senior Googatha elder and anti-nuclear activist, who is leading a campaign against rocket and weapons testing on sacred Googatha Country.
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In Turbulence: Australian Foreign Policy in the Trump Era, Clinton Fernandes looks at the implications for Australia as United States President Donald Trump and his government upend the so-called “international rules-based order”. Darren Saffin reviews.
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Defence minister Richard Marles’ announcement that he plans to raise military spending by $53 billion will help boost weapons’ company profits and shore up Australia’s position as deputy sheriff for the United States in the Asia Pacific, argues Isaac Nellist.
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Most people were hoping for big petrol tax cuts or cost-of-living adjustments from the PM’s rare address to the nation. He claims to support a ceasefire but he didn't even criticise Trump and Netanyahu’s illegal attacks on Iran and Lebanon. Sue Bolton outlines what Labor should do.
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Pip Hinman argues that Labor, One Nation, the Liberals and Nationals are all war parties, having supported the United States and Israeli wars of aggression in the Middle East.