Australian kids don’t have to be nuclear targets

August 28, 2025

Excellent analysis by John Menadue, echoing the international law-cognisant and Australia-first wisdom of former prime ministers Malcolm Fraser and Paul Keating. Indeed in the must-read The Big Fix: Rebuilding Australia’s National Security, Albert Palazzo argues that Australia should adopt a science-informed strategic defensive position as a truly sovereign nation to defend island continent Australia, rather than its traditional strategic offensive position since World War II as a minor partner in all US-Asian wars, paying an “insurance premium” in blood in the hope that the US will defend Australia from long-feared invasions by Asians.

The racist and jingoistic Coalition blindly supported, all US Asian wars from 1950 onwards, atrocities associated with 40 million Asian “deaths from violence and deprivation” (Google this phrase and see Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”).

Labor supported all these wars except for the Vietnam War and the Iraq War. The world is existentially threatened by nuclear weapons and climate change (Stephen Hawking) but under Labor, Australia is a key base for US intelligence, soldiers and nuclear weapons-capable submarines and bombers, and is among world leaders in climate criminality through its huge CO2-generating exports. Australians don’t have to be nuclear targets, war criminals or climate criminals.