Tag: feminist analysis
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“We Want YOU!” to help us in Australia’s demilitarisation
Just over a century ago, the notorious Uncle Sam appeared on posters around the United States, encouraging young men to join the United States’ army in a veiled performance of patriotism. The two World Wars saw Australia follow Great Britain into a cumulative ten years of devastation and heartbreak, which would be glorified as a…
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WILPF urges immediate action by the Australian Government to alleviate the suffering of the Afghani people
Submission to the Senate Foreign affairs Defence and Trade References Committee, October 2021 Introduction to WILPF WILPF is an international feminist organisation established in opposition to World War 1 in the Hague in 1915. We work in 37 countries to bring together women of different political, cultural and religious beliefs and advocate for peace and…
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Women, Peace and Security and the End of the Korean War – what are the lessons?
On the Korean peninsula, women activists, religious groups, domestic and international civil society organisations have been working together for reconciliation for over seven decades to bring about the end of the Korean War. While the guns may have ceased firing 68 years ago, the “war” continues, and today the Korean peninsula continues to be affected…
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WILPF’s Margaret Reynolds on International Peace Day and nuclear-powered submarines – ABC Radio interview
WILPF Tasmania President and former Australian senator Margaret Reynolds talks to ABC Northern Tasmania Drive’s Kim Napier on International Peace Day about the Morrison government’s radical decision to acquire a nuclear-powered submarine fleet. KIM NAPIER: Today marks UN International Day of Peace, and Australia’s leading women’s peace organisation is calling on the federal government to…
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It’s Time to End the Korean War
WILPF Statement for International Day of Peace 2021 Over 70 years after the Korean War first ignited, a formal peace agreement has yet to be reached – meaning the war that wreaked havoc on the Koreas, with four million casualties and 10 million families separated, continues to this day. This International Day of Peace, the…
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Killer subs will nuke a safe future
By WILPF Australia’s Harriet Binet, published in the Mercury Talking Point, Hobart Mercury,18 September 2021 Harriet Binet warns nuclear submarines will be the flagships of a khaki election PRIME Minister Scott Morrison’s plan to buy and manufacture nuclear submarines is a shocking and reckless policy, made even more disturbing when viewed through the lens of…
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WILPF Australia Media Release
16 September 2021 WILPF Australia calls for urgent public scrutiny into Australia’s acquisition of nuclear-powered submarines The announcement today that Australia will purchase and manufacture nuclear powered submarines is further evidence of rapid and dangerous militarisation that has not been tested on public opinion. It suggests further adventurism with the United States on yet another…
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WILPF Australia’s submission to the IPAN People’s Inquiry
Read WILPF Australia’s submission to the IPAN People’s Inquiry into the Case for an Independent and Peaceful Australia – the costs and consequences of Australia’s involvement in US-led wars and the US Alliance.
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Breaking Through the Addiction to Weapons – WILPF Webinar
View Breaking Through the Addiction to Weapons: Feminist Critiques of Militarism, webinar, 26 May 2021. WILPF representatives Ludmilla Kwitko and Barb O’Dwyer in Australia join WILPF Sections from Aotearoa, Japan, Germany and Italy to present and compare recent developments in militarisation in their countries, and to consider feminist alternatives to military spending. Taking place in the…
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Militarisation in Australia – the Report
Have you noticed the trend towards increasing militarisation in Australia? WILPF Australia’s reports on this trend from 2010-2020.