Tom Mullins

Tom Mullins is an International Studies student at RMIT University. He is a current intern with the Australians for War Powers Reform.

Tom's recent articles

Deferring democracy: The Iraq War and the future of Australia's war powers. An interview with Judith Betts

Next month marks eighteen years since the US-led offensive descended on the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, with Australias involvement continuing to serve as a reminder of how centralised our war powers are. Then Prime Minister John Howard and a select group of ministers made that fateful decision without a parliamentary vote. The war power as exercised by the prime minister in the National Security Committee of Cabinet imposes no accountability on governments or on individual MPs or Senators.

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