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�鶹��ý Show #53: Cut military spending, dump AUKUS

Sam Wainwright — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 20:00:00 +1100

Socialist Alliance national co-convenor Sam Wainwright explains why the Socialist Alliance is campaigning at this election to cut military spending in half on the latest �鶹��ý Show.

Socialist Alliance: Cut military spending to address housing, cost-of-living and climate crises

Peter Boyle — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:30:00 +1100

Socialist Alliance is calling for a 50% cut in military expenditure and to use the $28 billion to address the urgent housing, cost-of-living and climate crises, argues Peter Boyle.

Global military spending reached US$2443 billion for 2023

Kerry Smith — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:15:00 +1000

Global military spending has surged, according to the latest Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) research released on April 22, reports Kerry Smith.

Protest calls on Labor to fight climate change, not prepare for war

Alex Salmon — Wed, 31 May 2023 10:45:00 +1000

Stop AUKUS WA and Walyalup Climate Action protested the Labor government’s enormous AUKUS military spending. Alex Salmon and Leonie Lundie report.

Labor’s budget is an attack on NDIS, Medicare

Graham Matthews — Thu, 11 May 2023 15:30:00 +1000

Labor’s threat to slash-and-burn NDIS funding gives the lie to Jim Chalmers’ claim that the budget would offer “more help for some of the most vulnerable in our community”, argues Graham Matthews.

US and NATO allies accounted for more than half of global military expenditure last year

Peoples Dispatch — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 16:45:00 +1000

The world’s total military expenditure surpassed $2.24 trillion last year, with Europe recording its steepest rise in the past three decades, reports Peoples Dispatch.

How do we stop the march to war?

Bevan Ramsden — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 11:15:00 +1100

Brian Toohey, Alison Broinowski and Vince Scappatura will take part in a webinar hosted by the Australian Anti-AUKUS Coalition on March 26. Bevan Ramsden reports.

Germany: Critical left support for ‘Peace Manifesto’

Sibylle Kaczorek — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 15:00:00 +1100

Two controversial German figures, Sarah Wagenknecht and Alice Schwarzer, released a Peace Manifesto on February 10, which gathered close to half a million of signatures in less than a week, reports Sibylle Kaczorek.

We should fight climate change, not prepare for war on China

Sam Wainwright — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 12:00:00 +1000

Not only are we being told to prepare for war with China, but to expect it. It’s the stuff of nightmares, writes Sam Wainwright.

Spend billions on climate not war

Peter Boyle — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 12:00:00 +1000

The billions of dollars wasted on military spending and tax cuts for the rich should be used to fund renewables, argues Peter Boyle.

Australia becomes one of top 15 global military spenders

Kerry Smith — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 15:30:00 +1000

Global military spending rose last year to more than US$2.8 trillion, an average of more than $8.1 billion every day, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Kerry Smith reports.

Prepare for war with Dutton

Pip Hinman — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 14:45:00 +1000

Since becoming the minister for offence, Peter Dutton has used every opportunity to spruik Australia’s “need” to prepare for war against China. ANZAC Day provided another opening for the hawk. Pip Hinman reports.

Canberra outrage as ‘fly-speck’ Solomon Islands exercises sovereignty

William Briggs — Sun, 24 Apr 2022 17:30:00 +1000

A tidal wave of outrage followed the Solomon Islands and China signing a security deal. Missing in the fury is a recognition that the Solomon Islands is a sovereign state, argues William Briggs.

Budgets, national economies and the global capitalist crisis

William Briggs — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 11:15:00 +1000

The integrated nature of the world's economies means that it is a fiction that national budgets are divorced from the global setting, William Briggs explains.

Canada: Social democrats capitulate, Liberals seek to expand military spending

Jeff Shantz — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 11:45:00 +1100

The New Democratic Party’s rightward move was fully cemented recently when it signed a cooperation agreement with the ruling pro-capitalist Liberal party, reports Jeff Shantz.

Anti-China campaign moves us into an abyss

William Briggs — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 17:00:00 +1100

The war between Russia and Ukraine and its NATO backers continues, but Australia’s chief international focus is much closer to home — China. William Briggs reports.

Has Germany’s global role shifted due to increased military spending?

Sibylle Kaczorek — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 13:30:00 +1100

When German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced a €100 billion boost to defence spending, he was continuing along a trajectory set in place more than a decade ago, writes Sibylle Kaczorek.

John Pilger: The most lethal virus is not COVID-19. It is war

John Pilger — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 12:45:00 +1100

Today the war drums have new and highly enthusiastic beaters in Britain, America and the 'West', writes John Pilger.

Military spending peaks in the age of COVID-19

Chris Nineham — Tue, 05 May 2020 12:15:00 +1000

The latest Stockholm International Peace Research Institute figures reveal a world in which arms spending is rising across most, if not all regions, writes Chris Nineham.

National Security versus national security

Sam Wainwright — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 10:00:00 +1000

Remember last year when federal Treasurer Scott Morrison, picking up where Joe Hockey left off, declared that we had a spending problem not a revenue problem? That seems like a long time ago now. They did try to increase revenues by floating an increase in the GST but soon after came the revelation that 600 of Australia's biggest companies paid no tax and hundreds more pay less that the 30% they could be paying. This is all the more galling when you consider that the rate has been cut from the 48% it had been in the early 1980s. And then came the Panama Papers!

Fighting Fund: Wasting billions on offensive weapons

Peter Boyle — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 11:00:00 +1100

It is rare that a critical article on Australia's military spending appears in one of the corporate newspapers but on October 25, the Melbourne Age published such an article by senior correspondent Daniel Flitton entitled “Does Australia's military need such tentacles of defence?”. Flitton argued that while Australian governments have “talked the good talk of regional co-operation and engagement for decades” their “staggering shopping list of new military hardware was signalling a very different message to the region.

Venezuela slashes military budget by 34%

Tony Iltis — Fri, 01 May 2015 10:00:00 +1000

A new report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute found Venezuela cut its military budget by 34% last year, leading the region in arms spending cuts. In contrast, United States political allies Paraguay and Mexico led the region in upping military spending, raising military budgets by 13% and 11%, respectively.