Radio 3CR (Victoria) – show features interviews with two organisers for peace, Annette Brownlie of the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN), and Margie Beavis from the Medical Association for the Prevention of War (MAPW). Annette speaks about RIMPAC 2020, Continue reading 3CR Radio – Shining the spotlight on Australia’s unabated defence spending – 29 Aug 2020
Bernard Collaery and Witness K – Support STATEMENT August 2020 Invitation to add your name as a supporter of the statement Increasing numbers of ordinary Australians believe that the prosecutions of Witness K and Bernard Collaery are travesties of justice Continue reading Will you support the statement seeking to drop the prosecutions of Bernard Collaery and Witness K?
Media Release – Pacific Peace Network calls for cancellation of RIMPAC exercises View this email in your browser PACIFIC PEACE NETWORK Media Release For Continue reading Pacific Peace Network calls for an end to all military exercises in the Pacific – 16 August 2020
Pacific Peace Network Media Release Continue reading Pacific Peace Network calls for RIMPAC exercises to be cancelled – Media Release 16 August 2020
Bernard Collaery trial is a highly unusual criminal prosecution After nine months of hearings, seven judgments, and government spending of $2 million, we still know too little about the prosecutions of Bernard Collaery and Witness K. Ian Cunliffe AFR Aug Continue reading Bernard Collaery trial is a highly unusual criminal prosecution, Ian Cunliffe, AFR, 14 Aug 2020
John Pilger ANOTHER HIROSHIMA IS COMING… UNLESS WE STOP IT NOW 3 August 2020 In a major essay to mark the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, John Pilger describes reporting from five ‘ground zeros’ for nuclear weapons Continue reading ANOTHER HIROSHIMA IS COMING… UNLESS WE STOP IT NOW – John Pilger, 3rd August, 2020
Voice No 43 August 2020
Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN) IPAN Media Release re AUSMIN 2020 MEDIA RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2 Aug 2020 For Interviews: Richard Broinowski (former Australian ambassador) 0432185594 No to U.S. pressure Continue reading Former Australian ambassador asks will Australia resist U.S. pressure regarding provocative actions in South China Sea? : 2nd August 2020
A national campaign called “Living Incomes for Everyone” (LIFE) was launched on Tuesday 21 July This National Campaign is building a groundswell movement of all organisations, groups and individuals who are working for economic and social justice for the unemployed, Continue reading “LIFE” – Living Incomes for Everyone campaign
The militarised centre of Australia
New podcast (originally on 3CR) Interview with Bevan Ramsden, IPAN CC member, on the urgent need to move Australia’s economy to a more sustainable basis.
Scott Morrison, get your priorities straight! Australia is in the midst of a devastating economic crisis, and Scott Morrison wants to spend billions of dollars on long-range missiles and new weapons systems.1 Now more than ever, we need increased funding Continue reading GetUp Petition – re $270 billion in military spending – Morrison, get your priorities right
MEDIA RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 3 July 2020 PDF version: Media Release re Increased Military Expenditure 3.7.20 Increase in Military Expenditure Unjustified and Destabilising The Australian Government’s increase in military expenditure is pure fear-mongering and compromises urgent social Continue reading Increase in Military Expenditure Unjustified and Destabilising – 3rd July 2020
Voice-No-42-July – 2020
Hosted every two years by the US Pacific Fleet, the last Rim of the Pacific Exercise (RIMPAC) in 2018 brought 47 surface ships, five submarines, more than 200 aircraft, and 25,000 military personnel to Hawaii’s lands and waters. This military Continue reading Pacific wide discussion on the RIMPAC exercises – see it here
