CLA is planning to launch a new campaign to convince the Australian Parliament to pass legislation so that a Prime Minister has to seek parliamentary approval on sending Australians troops into war or a warlike situation.
The campaign will have a focus each year on Anzac Day, Australia’s day of remembering the fallen. While other jingoistic celebrations focus on militarism each 25 April, the War Powers campaign will highlight the opposite – ensuring Australia thinks long and hard before getting into new wars. Other items include:
- ‘Autocratic populism’ replacing democracy
- If NZ can avoid ISDS, so should Australia
- Public servants win free speech rights back
- Drug law reform: special articles
- Mentally ill people forced into prison
- No data is safe from government list-building
- Trying to vote results in five years jail
- SINGLE COLUMN (read on screen)
- TWO COLUMN (print, read over a break)