Public Documents
Information and advocacy materials available to support our initiative for making peace a priority in Australian foreign policy
Talking Points
Key messages and evidence-based arguments for advocates, supporters, and policymakers to use when discussing the importance of making peace a priority in Australian foreign policy.
Background
The Make Peace a Priority campaign aims to enhance Australias role in international agencies working to achieve peace.
Research and Analysis
Evidence-based research supporting the Make Peace A Priority campaigns core arguments. The data demonstrates that peace-building is not only morally imperative but also economically beneficial, environmentally necessary, and strategically advantageous for Australia.
The Costs of War for US Democracy - Brown University Watson School
This Brown University Watson School discussion examines how US military operations and constant war preparedness have eroded American democracy. The panellists are Dr Nita Crawford (political scientist and co-founder of the Costs of War Project), Dr Linda Bilmes (budgeting and public finance expert), and Dr Jennifer Greenberg (feminist political geographer). https://youtu.be/fRlewvklllk?si=dil-dqXJQlddlDhQ
Submission to the National AUKUS Inquiry
The AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine program has been consistently framed by the Australian Government as the most transformative industrial endeavour in the nation's history. To secure public support for a project with an estimated cost of $368 billion, official communications have heavily emphasised job creation, economic growth, and regional development (see the AUKUS Submarine Workforce and Industry Strategy).However, an independent analysis of the workforce data, project timelines, and opportunity costs reveals a stark divergence between the political rhetoric of a "jobs bonanza" and the economic realities.
Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Defence - Inquiry into the annual report of the Department of Defence 2024-25
Defence begins with preventing war: peacebuilding, resilience and the security of a connected Australia The first duty of defence is to prevent the conditions in which Australians may be asked to fight, die or survive a catastrophic war. Australia needs the capacity to protect itself, but its deepest security will not be created by military capability alone. It will be created by reducing tensions, preventing conflict, strengthening relationships, protecting the systems on which life depends, and addressing the shared threats that no state can defeat with weapons.
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