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  • Statement on the Bondi Beach terror attack

    16 December 2025 The Australian Peace and Security Forum expresses deepest sympathy for the families, friends and community of those who were killed or injured in the terror attack on a Jewish festival in Bondi. We commend the courage of locals and first responders who acted to prevent further bloodshed. We call for all Australians regardless of faith, politics or race to commit…

  • 7am Podcast: This could only end in a very bad place

    Albert Palazzo, 10 December, 18 minutes. AUKUS is moving full steam ahead. That was the promise made in Washington, as Richard Marles and Penny Wong stood beside their US counterparts, stating the alliance is stronger than ever. But behind those assurances is a Pentagon review of AUKUS that the public isn’t allowed to read –…

  • What is needed for economic security in a sharply divided world?

    Tue, 16 Dec, 6pm – 7pm AEDT Online Event – REGISTER HERE Event description Global inequality was a focal theme at the recent G20 Summit in South Africa. Between 2000 and 2024, the richest 1% of the world’s people captured 41% of all new wealth, in contrast to just 1% being captured by the bottom…

  • Tue, 16 Dec, 6pm – 7pm AEDT

    REGISTER HERE Global inequality was a focal theme at the recent G20 Summit in South Africa. Between 2000 and 2024, the richest 1% of the world’s people captured 41% of all new wealth, in contrast to just 1% being captured by the bottom half of humanity.  One key driver of growing global inequality is the…

  • Secrecy thy name is AUKUS: How Labor’s closed-door committee further entrenches excessive secrecy

    From Crikey, ALBERT PALAZZO, 2 December 2025 A committee tasked with reviewing AUKUS should have been a good thing. But one designed to ensure that there are no contrary voices destroys its value from the start. Well, the government has done it again. Instead of taking the opportunity to support the open scrutiny of AUKUS…

  • A House of Dynamite: should we be worried?

    By Marianne Hanson, Co-Chair, ICAN Australia 11 November 2025 If there’s one message we should take away from Academy Award winning director Kathryn Bigelow’s new film A House of Dynamite, it is this: nuclear weapons cannot keep us ‘safe’ indefinitely. Sooner or later, the kind of scenario depicted in Bigelow’s film will occur. Indeed, many…

  • Australia becomes a risk-taking ally

    Al Palazzo, 11 November 2025 Published by The Interpreter, The Lowy Institute As Australians know, and as their government frequently reminds them, the foundation of the nation’s security is its long-standing alliance with the United States. Australia has honoured the intent of the alliance but has aimed to do so while incurring minimal risk and…

  • Getting away with murder: What happens in Australia if Israel gets away with genocide?

    Dr Julie Macken, 30 October 2025 Yes, the first response to that question is rightly, who cares? It is Palestine and Palestinians who should be the focus of any such question. When it comes to Israel getting away with murder, it is Palestinians that have paid the price. That is increasingly self-evident as will be…

  • Arms industry infiltrates National Press Club, Michelle Fahy, 1 Nov 2025

    More than a quarter of the National Press Club’s sponsors are part of the global arms industry or working on its behalf. The National Press Club of Australia lists 81 corporate sponsors on its website. Twenty-one of them (listed below) are either part of the global arms industry or actively working on its behalf. Ten…

  • Getting away with murder, by Dr Julie Maken

    October 30, 2025 What happens in Australia if Israel gets away with genocide? Yes, the first response to that question is rightly, who cares? It is Palestine and Palestinians who should be the focus of any such question. When it comes to Israel getting away with murder, it is Palestinians that have paid the price.…

  • The Big Fix: Rebuilding Australia’s national security, by Albert Palazzo, Melbourne University Press, 2025.

    An urgent call for a new Australian defence policy The character of war is constantly changing, and so too must the approach to national security. But Australia’s defence policy is broken. Successive governments have not approached the nation’s security with the intelligence, resoluteness and seriousness it requires. After more than 120 years of defence policy…

  • The United Nations at 80 years

    Can the UN survive its liquidity crisis with the US stepping back from its dues? How is China re-shaping the institution? Civilians suffer as conflicts rage from Gaza to South Sudan and Myanmar. Will the UN have a first woman elected as the new UN Secretary General? Our planet faces existential threats from the climate…

  • Clearing Gaza rubble could yield 90,000 tonnes of planet heating emissions

    Nina Lakhani Climate justice reporter, The Guardian, Tue 22 Jul 2025 19.00 AEST Millions of tonnes of rubble left by Israel’s bombardment of Gaza could generate more than 90,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions – and take as long as four decades to remove and process, a study has found. Israel’s destruction of Palestinian homes,…

  • AUKUS is a $368 billion risk and the US is a chaotic partner. Australia needs a Plan B

    Only the most naive still believe that America will come through on its side of the AUKUS deal. Luckily there is another way. Dr Albert Palazzo As the inherent risks of AUKUS become more apparent and as the United States sinks further into chaos there is a pressing need for Australia to recalibrate the foundation…

  • APSF Submission to ANU National Security College Consultations on ‘Securing our Future’

    The Australian Peace and Security Forum (APSF) is pleased to provide this submission for consideration of the ANU National Security College. Read more