A Big Step Forward for War Powers Reform in Australia
After a decade of public efforts to get politicians to concentrate on changing how Australia goes to war, the Albanese government has now responded by taking the first step.
After a decade of public efforts to get politicians to concentrate on changing how Australia goes to war, the Albanese government has now responded by taking the first step.
This week on Talk World Radio we’re discussing the state of international law and the war in Ukraine.
Dr Alison Broinowski, AM, discusses the long proposed legislative reforms that would require parliamentary discussion prior to commitment of Australian forces to international deployment rather than the existing powers conferred solely on the prime minister and constitutionally on the governor general as commander in chief.
This week on Talk World Radio, we’re talking with Alfred de Zayas, author of Building a Just World Order.
In 1929, Russia and China proposed to go to war. Governments around the world pointed out that they’d just signed and ratified the Kellogg-Briand Pact banning all war. Russia withdrew. Peace was made.
The Forum Friedensethik demands “an end to the stationing of U.S. nuclear bombs in Germany.”
A video from Russia TV on January 11, 2022.
Here is a collection of international treaties that make wars and even the threat of war illegal, national constitutions that make wars and various activities that facilitate wars illegal, and laws that make killing illegal with no exceptions for the use of missiles or the scale of the slaughter
We ask that the human right to peace be enshrined.
