Michelle Fahy. Selling arms with impunity.
6 February 2020. Australia’s military industry exports are increasing rapidly, fuelled by $195b in federal funding to 2025-26, and strong collaboration between federal, state,...
‘Nuclear energy is never profitable’. New study slams nuclear power business case.
Michael Mazengarb. 29 July 2019 A new study of the economics of nuclear power has found it has never been financially viable, that most...
What can Australia do to help build a world at peace with itself?
Allan Patience. Within this question is an assumption (which is all too plausible) that Australia has done – and still does – very little...
Revelations about Australia and the Iraq war.
James O’Neill. A new ABC report, quoting from a previously classified document, reveals that the Australian government decided in early 2002 to join the...
Can religions help avert wars provoked by climate change?
Bruce Duncan. A new arms race is looming as the United States, Russia, and China continue to modernise their weapons systems, including tactical nuclear...
The treaty banning nuclear weapons, one year on.
History made, a solid start, here to stay, and miles to go, before we sleep. Tilman Ruff. One year ago, on 7 July 2017,...
Is it time for a Just Peace framework? SPC Forum with Caesar D’Mello.
SPC Forum Address 21 June 2018 A significant life-and-death concern we have had to grapple with over the centuries is that of war and...
Pope Francis condemns even possessing nuclear weapons.
Bruce Duncan. Pope Francis has issued strong backing to calls to ban nuclear weapons entirely, including as a deterrent. On a flight back to...
Daniel Ellsberg and the global nuclear suicide machine.
Andrew Glikson. “The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save human way of thinking and thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophes.” Albert...
Joe Camilleri on our US alliance: surely we can do better.
Joseph A Camilleri. In the year that Trump has been in the White House, ministers have continued to repeat the well-worn mantra that we...
How will the North Korean Crisis be resolved?
Bill Frilay. I use that heading, because I do not know the answer, and wish world leaders did. All I know is that the...