Talking us into a war with China?
Bruce Duncan. 4 May 2021 Recent political rhetoric about a possible war with China over Taiwan is deeply disturbing. Have we in Australia learned...
The blood-for-oil Iraq war demands a robust public inquiry.
Bevan Ramsden. 30 March 2021. 20 March 2021 marks 18 years since Australia made the decision to join the United States in the disastrous...
Pope Francis apologises for the war against Iraq, but will Australia?
Bruce Duncan. 30 March 2021. During his recent visit to Iraq, Pope Francis revived hopes for deep reconciliation and renewed collaboration among the ancient...
Not knowing one’s enemy: fundamental intelligence failures in Australia’s Afghanistan & Vietnam.
Greg Lockhart. 5 March 2021. There are disturbing parallels between what occurred in Afghanistan and what occurred in Vietnam 50 years earlier than that....
Sue Wareham. Let’s face it, Australia goes to war far too easily.
1 December 2020 The Brereton Report will shine a light on alleged war crimes committed by Australian forces in Afghanistan. It is expected that...
Hamish McDonald. Sabres rattling in Beijing.
1 November 2020. With the Taiwan dilemma deepening, Australia might be forced to take a stand As the United States gets closer to an...
Brian Johnstone. ‘A Hidden Life’. Why Franz Jägerstätter defied the Nazis.
Posted 7 April 2020. A response to the film. Terrence Malick’s latest film, A Hidden Life, provides an account of the life and death...
Paul Barratt. War in Afghanistan: 18 years of lies & obfuscation.
The real story behind the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. Posted 7 April 2020. In response to the suicide attacks on the Twin Towers...
75th anniversary of the deaths in Dachau of the founders of Young Christian Workers.
Stefan Gigacz 26 January 2020 Catholic Outlook ParramattaPosted 10 March 2020 On 27 January this year, the world will commemorate the liberation by Soviet...
It’s too easy to take us to war.
Paul Barratt. Posted 28 November 2019. Where we are today is that the practice of the last twenty years has purportedly taken away the...
Mirrors & flags: the situation in West Papua.
Susan Connelly. A great deal is being written about the violence and deaths in Papua and West Papua, the two provinces of Indonesia which...