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Climate change and national security
Podcast with Dr Albert Palazzo, Adjunct Prof University of NSW, Former Director, War Studies, Army Research Centre, 6 December 2024 “Our failure to put in any meaningful policies to cut back on greenhouse gas emissions to rapidly reduce them to zero, basically dooms humanity to a very tough ride in the coming decades…We have now…
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Time to talk peace: War memorial must think of kids
Tens of thousands of school students visit the Australian War Memorial every year – more than 95,000 in 2022-23 alone. For students in Years 4-12, a visit to the Memorial is mandatory for the school to receive federal funding for a visit to Canberra. The Memorial therefore plays a role in shaping what young Australians…
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The real meaning of security
José Ramos-Horta – Published in The Saturday Paper, October 19 – 25, 2024 Language is a truly fascinating phenomenon – it is fluid and constantly evolving. We are barely aware that, as we are shaping its evolution, language is shaping us – individually and collectively. This is what makes it such a potent political tool. Language can be…
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The Fraying of the Australian Social Contract – Dr Albert Palazzo
The Australian nation faces a convergence of events that risk the security and prosperity of its people. Some of these are well known and receive considerable attention from the government and the media, such as the consequences of China’s emergence as a great power. Others are equally well known but receive minimal attention and resources…
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World Court faces ‘unprecedented’ number of cases
21 October 2024 During a visit to UN Headquarters in New York, where he is due to brief the Security Council Tuesday, Mr. Gautier told UN News’s Julia Foxen that this global divide requires the UN’s principal judicial organ – commonly known as the world court – to maintain its autonomous and independent role “without…
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A plea for peace in the Middle East — Louise Adler and Nasser Mashni. ABC Radio National Big Ideas
Wed 16 Oct 2024 at 6:00pm – Link here Two Australians who are intimately connected to the conflict in the Middle East, one Jewish, one Palestinian, make their pleas for peace, and share their deeply personal stories of how it has affected them. The 13th annual UN International Day of Peace Brisbane lecture was recorded…
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In your backyard – from Rajneesh to Reedley, implications of illegal biolabs, by Raina Macintyre
Pandemics may arise from nature, and we are currently concerned about unprecedented spread of H5N1 avian influenza, with hot spots in Europe and the Americas. In the United States, widespread epidemics in dairy farms have affected the commercial milk supply. If the virus mutates to be easily transmitted between humans, a pandemic may arise. The…
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Independence too big a price for AUKUS fantasy
And those who accept the reality of our loss of sovereign agency but actually applaud it as a price worth paying for our protection – such as Beazley, Dibb and Pezzullo – seem to have lost not only any sense of national pride, but of Australia’s national interest.
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Independent and Peaceful Australia Network Webinar “AUKUS and B-52s – Politics, Sovereignty and Security, Mon 16 Sept, 7-8.30 pm AEST
Host: human rights lawyer, Kellie Tanter Speakers: the Hon Gareth Evans AC KC, Prof Richard Tanter and Dr Vince Scappatura. REGISTER HERE
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Time for Australia to end support for nuclear weapons
Dr Sue Wareham OAM. President of the Medical Association for Prevention of War (Australia), and a former board member of ICAN Australia, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, 2 September, 2024. Introduction Nuclear weapons remain an existential threat to civilisation. Australia’s ongoing support for a role for these weapons in our “defence”, and our…
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Indigenous solutions to the climate and biodiversity crises: A reflection on UNDRIP
Indigenous Peoples have the right to maintain and strengthen their distinctive spiritual relationship with their traditionally owned or otherwise occupied and used lands, territories, waters and coastal seas and other resources and to uphold their responsibilities to future generations in this regard.
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Security Through Sustainable Peace: Australian International Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding
There is a globalised imperative towards security through increasing efforts to prevent violent conflicts and support positive peace; and recognition that this is achieved through political rather than military means. It is well established that violent conflict is one of the most serious impediments to human, social and …