Australia’s military spending is skewed by the US-Australian military alliance. In 2017 the Trump administration has imposed a 2% GDP impost on all its allies including Australia. We campaign for reduced military spending to reflect Australia’s needs rather than the demands of the global world power namely the United States. We claim that Australia is an exorbitant spender on military equipment which includes a trillion dollars over the next 10 years. The big ticket items are 12 submarines, 75 F35s and numerous naval ships and many more items. We claim that Australia’s military spending is making us poorer not safer. Consequently we participate fully in the Global Day of Action on Military Spending (GDAMS), this takes place around the middle of April each year to coincide with the release of the SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) annual report on global military spending. We educate, lobby and protest about Australia’s military spending particularly in mid-April each year but we also comment and work on this the whole year round.
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64% Australians reject arms sales to Saudi Arabia media release
Media release 12th June 2019 The majority of Australians believe that Australia should follow countries like Germany and Finland and suspend weapons trading with Saudi Arabia which has been accused of committing human rights atrocities as part of the on going war in neighbouring Yemen. A new survey by Essential Research has revealed that...
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SIPRI military expenditure data, 2019
World military expenditure increase by 2.6% World military expenditure increased in 2018 by 6 per cent in real terms, and is now estimated at $1822 billion. The top 10 spenders in 2018 compared to 2017: 1. USA (+4.6%); 2. China (+5.0%); 3. Saudi Arabia (-6.5%); 4. India (+3.1%); 5. France (-1.4%); 6. Russia (-3.5%); 7. UK...
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What does the RAAF do when it kills civilians?
Media Release Friday, February 1, 2019 The answer is easy it awards the commander who was in charge of the operation with a medal and awards it on Australia Day! Here is the citation for 2019 Australia Day Awards covering 2018. Distinguished Service Medal. Wing Commander M For distinguished leadership in warlike operations on...
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Invictus triumphalism – published in Pearls and Irritations
Invictus and the arms manufacturers connection. Posted on 14 September 2018 by Peter Menadue The Invictus Games will be familiar to all who watch the ABC, their promoter and sponsor. The Games will be taking place in Sydney in October, the participants being injured service personnel from 18 countries. It is highly inspiring to...
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‘Welcome’ Steve Ciobo to the new Australian Minister for the Arms Trade
Steve Ciobo is the new Defence Industry Minister taking over from Christopher Pyne. He is now the Australian Minister who is responsible for our arms trade with other countries. He is responsible for the transfer of Australian arms and equipment to the biggest trouble spot in the World, the Middle East. The Australian Government...
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GCOMS 2018 April 21 Event at Railway Square Sydney 11 am
d1 Master of Ceremonies Welcome. Welcome everyone who is here for the awards for the best weapons exporters for 2018. Some deluded people call us merchants of death but we see ourselves more positively. After all, we facilitated the rubblelisation of the Middle East and now the construction or reconstruction industry. We provided the...
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Letter re Arms Trade
The Hon. Marise Payne, Minister for Defence, P.O. Box 6100, Parliament House, Canberra, 2600. Dear Ms Payne, As we approach, this year, the centenary of the cease fire of the war to end all wars it is disturbing to say the least that our government wants to remember the loss of sixty...