Dr Alison Broinowski, formerly an Australian diplomat, is an author writing on Australia’s interactions with the world, and a member of Australians for War Powers Reform and of World Beyond War.
The push to have a post-American foreign policy gathers apace, but it will only succeed with a clear-eyed view of the USA’s uninterrupted drive to domination. Two new studies show that mainstream progressives still have a way to go.
The Albanese government’s refusal to assert an independent position on Gaza is the culmination of decades of mythologising of our ‘interests’. We are now at an impasse from which the only exit is independent defence.
Australia’s history is replete with missed opportunities for asserting sovereign independence, for peacefully relating to our region, for sustainable development and for conciliation between settlers and Indigenous peoples.
In epidemiology, MacIntyre says, not everything is as it seems. She mistrusts some of her colleagues who put their reputations and grant applications ahead of scientific evidence and public health.
If the United States, United Kingdom and Russia risk nuclear war over Ukraine and a gas pipeline, that is bad enough; for Australia to join this insanity is worse.
…if the next war is against China, over Taiwan, the South or East China Sea, or some contrived event, Australia will become involved, will be a principal target, and will lose the war. China is not the Taliban.
