Independent and Peaceful Australia Network 2024 Conference Declaration
(download a copy of the declaration here)
6 October 2024, Boorloo (Perth)
The Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN), met on the lands of the Whadjuk Noongar people in Boorloo (Perth) from the 4th to 6th October 2024 to hold its national conference, Sleepwalking into War, opposing AUKUS, nuclear submarines, and the nuclear industry and nuclear waste.
We seek a just, peaceful and sustainable world.
This conference, which attracted well over one hundred people, nationally and internationally, affirms its commitment to campaign for an independent Australia which pursues peaceful relations with all countries on the basis of equality and mutual respect.
To this end, IPAN will work with all like-minded people and organisations in a broad-based mass campaign to drive the necessary political change.
In the name of peace, this conference calls on the Australian Government to;
- Terminate the AUKUS agreement/treaty.
- Terminate the 2014 Force Posture Agreement between Australia and the USA, which sees a permanent rotation of 2500 USA Marines stationed in Darwin
- Withdraw all ADF personnel from all areas of the world outside of Australia’s immediate territorial boundaries, except for those on UN peacekeeping missions
- Declare that Australia will not be involved in a war against China, or any other country, or allow Australian territory to be used to support such wars
- Support an immediate and permanent ceasefire in the Middle East and unequivocally condemn the genocide that is occurring there and cease supply of any weapons components
- Establish a Ministry for Peace under the auspices of the Foreign Affair portfolio and,
- Ensure AUKUS is investigated by the National Anti-Corruption Commission
Finally, this conference calls for an end to the nuclearisation of Australia.