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Kellie Merritt
Kellie Merritt is a social worker who who has been a committee member with Australians for War Power Reform. Her husband FLT Paul Pardoel served with the RAAF for 15years. He transferred to the RAF Special Forces and worked on operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. Paul was killed while in Iraq when his RAF Hercules was shot down.
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King Donald ‘duck’ Trump
The 60th presidential election is less than a year away and if polling is correct a second Donald Trump presidency is likely. If you don’t believe the polls, the January 6 Prison Choir’s ‘Justice for All’ single, casting Donald Trump, has hit No. 1 on iTunes, might be a hint. Politicians and voters in thrill Continue reading »
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The dissonance of democracy
On matters of war and defence, government executives and journo elites are exclusive and elusive. They’re all too happy that peace is a fleeting pause between wars; to replenish ammunitions, the pockets of arms manufacturers and the ego of America. Continue reading »
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Best of 2022: Aysheh’s story: A victory for victim-survivors of domestic violence against NSW police
Policing practices collude with and perpetuate the cycle of domestic and family abuse and violence against women. Continue reading »
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Aysheh’s story: A victory for victim-survivors of domestic violence against NSW police
Policing practices collude with and perpetuate the cycle of domestic and family abuse and violence against women. Continue reading »
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ADF’s longest conflict has been in the battles of culture on the political frontline
As the ADF emerges from two decades of war fighting, they are called to fight natural disasters, pandemics and manage aged care. Continue reading »
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Why has the good war ended so badly?
The Afghanistan war, conceived in the traumatic aftermath of 9/11 has ended 20 years later in a misconceived traumatic withdrawal. Continue reading »
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Afghanistan: drawing the curtains on the final act
The past month or two has brought back some imagery that’s haunted me for some time. Images that were part of footage taken by insurgents of my husbands smouldering crash site. It featured on news channels being watched in lounge rooms across the world well before any military official had the chance to even get Continue reading »
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Memorial Wars and our hypocrisy
The commemoration of war must force us to remember the people – the victors and victims, men and women, patriots and pacifists, soldiers and civilians. It must connect, confront and complicate, rather than celebrate, petrify and simplify.” Dr Sam Edwards (Historian). Continue reading »