Australia, Drones and War Powers

Defence has not emerged as an issue in this year’s federal election but the subject appears to resonate in the federal electorate of Grayndler in Sydney’s inner-west reports Nadyat El Gawley.

Nadyat’s article, published just after the 7 September 2013 federal election, refers to MPG’s campaigns against weaponised drones, an end to the Australia/US alliance and for a war powers bill which transfers decision-making about the deployment of Australian troops overseas from the executive branch of government (the prime minister and cabinet) to parliament.

Nadyat’s article can be found here.

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