Will you prepare to stand with us in at Landforces in Brisbane, June 2021? The weapons industry in Brisbane is rapidly developing. We inspected three Brisbane-based companies: Boeing, Rheinmetall and Nioa. Being onsite gives us ordinary folk concrete information. We encounter real people going about their everyday preparation for … war crimes. The Global Supply… [Read more] Facilitating Exports: The Global Supply Chain and Landforces Brisbane
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Budget a setback for Australia and the region
Frydenberg’s 2020-21 budget confirms a profligate spend on Australia’s military capabilities that is unjustifiable from every view point: strategic, economic, environmental and social. The addition of a further $3 billion to the already allocated $42.2billion for 2020-21 will see Australia acquire a military capability grossly disproportionate to its defence needs. The planned capability will work… [Read more] Budget a setback for Australia and the region
Raising Peace
Speech for Raising Peace event: LEE RHIANNON 20 September 2020 I do acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which we meet and pay tribute to their history, their culture and their ongoing struggles for justice in the face of the many crimes that continue to be perpetrated against First Nations peoples. Thank you… [Read more] Raising Peace
Peace Crimes: The Peace Pilgrims
Book: Peace Crimes: Pine Gap, National Security and Dissent by Kieran Finnane Peace Crimes (available at the University of Queensland Press) tells the story of anti-war resistance and direct action against Pine Gap, a Military Base in Alice Spring, Australia. In 2016, six Peace Pilgrims, Andy Paine, Margaret Pestorius, Franz Dowling, Tim Webb, Pauli Christie… [Read more] Peace Crimes: The Peace Pilgrims
Peace Crimes – opening up Pine Gap
Peace Crimes Brisbane launch Russell Goldflam For five decades, the rallying cry of the protest movement against the space base, as it’s locally known, has been “Close Pine Gap”. Somewhat paradoxically, though, one of the key objectives of that movement has been to open Pine Gap, to shed light on what it actually does. And… [Read more] Peace Crimes – opening up Pine Gap
