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MPG Monthly Meeting @ Zoom meeting - details to be provided

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For more details about MPG’s monthly meetings, contact Nick Deane on 0420 526 929.

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AUKUS Security Pact

IPPNW, 'Proposed US/UK nuclear-powered submarines for Australia: jeopardising health and fuelling an arms race: Summary of joint statement by IPPNW and its affiliates in Australia, UK and US', International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War website, Sep 21, 2021.
Richard Tanter, 'AUKUS: Do nuclear submarines mean nuclear war?' Interview with Phillip Adams on Late Night Live, Sep 20, 2021. [Duration: 14min 10sec}.
Joseph Camilleri, 'AUKUS security pact: a story of recklessness and delusion', Pearls and Irritations, Sep 20, 2021.
IPAN, 'Australians speak out against nuclear submarines and AUKUS - Public statement and petition', Media Release, Sep 20, 2021. Sign the petition.
Stuart Rees, 'US Nuclear Submarines – A Dangerous Nonsense', The Bush Telegraph, Sep 18, 2021.
Allan Behm, 'Scott Morrison’s Giant Nuclear Election Ploy', Asia-Pacific Leadership Network, Sep 17, 2021.
WILPF, 'WILPF Australia calls for urgent public scrutiny into Australia’s acquisition of nuclear-powered submarines', Media Release, Sep 16, 2021.

Australia’s complicity in the Pinochet coup in Chile

Paul Daley, 'Declassified documents show Australia assisted CIA in coup against Chile’s Salvador Allende', The Guardian, Sep 11, 2021.
National Security Archive, 'Australian Spies Aided and Abetted CIA in Chile', Sep 10, 2021.
Clinton Fernandes, 'Did Australian spies help install a Chilean dictator?'. interview with Phillip Adams, RN Late Night Live, Jun 7, 2021 [19min 53sec].
More information can be accessed here.

War in Afghanistan

Kathy Kelly, 'The only way to effectively counter terror is to end war', Waging Nonviolence, Sep 11, 2021.
Greg Lockhart, 'The fall of Kabul: false friends for over sixty four years', Pearls and Irritations, Aug 23, 2021.
Aisha Majid, 'How much did the Afghanistan war cost the US?', New Statesman, Aug 16, 2021.
Sarah Lazare, 'We Can’t Let the Generals Who Lied About the Afghanistan War Define Its Legacy', In These Times, Aug 16, 2021.
Noam Chomsky with Vijay Prashad, 'The reality behind the US ‘withdrawal’ from Afghanistan', AlterNet, May 7, 2021.
More commentaries can be accessed here.

Contributions to the Debate

Clinton Fernandes, 'The Rules-Based Order', Arena Quarterly, Issue 7, Sep 2021.
Greg Barnes, 'Human rights violations now enshrined in legislation – in Australia', Michael West Media, Sep 5, 2021.
Emma Shortis, 'The ANZUS treaty does not make Australia safer. Rather, it fuels a fear of perpetual military threat', The Conversation, Sep 1, 2021.
John Nichols, 'Cut Military Spending to Deliver Covid Vaccines to the World', The Nation, Aug 20, 2021.
Tasha May, 'War Powers: immense profits for arms dealers, incalculable losses for Australians', Michael West Media, Aug 18, 2021.
Michelle Fahy, 'Defence hides Australia’s weapon sales to Israel amid war crimes investigation into Palestine', Michael West Media, Aug 18, 2021.
ICAN, 'Submission to the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN) Inquiry on the implications and impact of the US–Australia alliance', Jul 30, 2021.
David Brophy, 'Australia’s China policy can’t be based on paranoia or corporate interests — there is a better way', The Conversation, Jun 29, 2021.
Human Rights Watch, Gaza: Apparent War Crimes During May Fighting, Jul 27, 2021.

Webinars and Podcasts

World BEYOND War, IPAN and the Pacific Peace Network, 'Solidarity Webinar: Cancel Talisman Sabre - No more war games in the Pacific!', Jul 27, 2021. On July 24, 2021, World BEYOND War, IPAN and the Pacific Peace Network co-hosted a webinar that called for the cancellation of the Talisman Sabre military exercises in the Pacific. [Duration 1:58:57].
UTS: Australia-China Relations Institute, 'China Panic: Australia’s Alternative to Paranoia and Pandering - in conversation with David Brophy', Jun 1, 2021. As Australia’s debate on the People’s Republic of China (PRC) continues to intensify, calls are being made for a new approach to PRC policy. What might such an alternative look like? [Duration 1:00:00].

Videos Against the Mainstream

Michael West, 'One-sided war powers', The West Report, Jul 19, 2021.

Andrew Wilkie, 'Free Julian Assange', Andrew Wilkie MP website, Feb12, 2020.

Jennifer Robinson, 'On the Dangers of Extraditing Julian Assange', acTVism Munich, Feb 4, 2020.

Noam Chomsky, 'Arrest of Assange Is “Scandalous” and Highlights Shocking Extraterritorial Reach of U.S.', Democracy Now!, Apr 12, 2019. Transcript included.

Radio Links

Joan Beaumont - 'Conscription in World War I', ABC Big Ideas podcast, Jan. 12, 2021 (Original broadcast on Dec. 13, 2016).
Tilman Ruff - A step closer to banning nuclear weapons. Tilman Ruff discusses the latest developments for the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and how it will become international law in early 2021. ABC's Late Night Live with Phillip Adams, Oct 26, 2020.
Greg Barns - Is Canberra changing its tune on Julian Assange? The establishment of The Parliamentary Friends of the Bring Julian Assange Home Group has brought together a very disparate group of politicians lead by Independent Andrew Wilkie and National George Christiansen. Greg Barns is a barrister and adviser to the Australian Assange campaign. ABC's Late Night Live with Phillip Adams, Dec 2, 2019.

Choosing Humanity

ICAN's Choosing Humanity: Why Australia must join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, July 2019. Download the report.

Brochure on MPG

A brochure on MPG can be downloaded here. It contains our Mission Statement and information about who we are, our history and how you can participate in our activities and campaigns. (To print, select 2-sided/booklet in printer properties).

Iraq War

IPAN - Podcast on the 18th Anniversary of the Iraq War, March 2021, (13:06 mins).

Latest Correspondence

Jul 27, 2021 - Response from David Johnston, Vice Chief of Defence Force on Exercise Sea Breeze.
Jan 4, 2020 - Letter to Sydney Morning Herald on the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani.

Submissions

Feb 2021 - Submission by MPG on the Indigenous Voice co-design process.
Oct 2020 - Submission by MPG to the Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee inquiry into the Defence Legislation Amendment (Enhancement of Defence Force Response to Emergencies) Bill 2020.
Oct 2020 - Submission by Australians for War Powers Reform (AWPR) to the Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee inquiry into the Defence Legislation Amendment (Enhancement of Defence Force Response to Emergencies) Bill 2020.