Labor’s surrender to American military imperatives has been recently highlighted by former Australian PM Paul Keating.
Keating: “We don’t need to be basically a pair of shoes hanging out of the Americans’ backside”
The Labor/Liberal Duopoly circle the wagons
The need to reform war powers is made obvious by the overwhelming subservience to American unipolar goals by both our major parties. Australia has been led into a string of US initiated conflicts at great cost economically and geopolitically. We are seen as an American forward base in Asia.
“Opposition Leader Peter Dutton said Mr Keating was “so far past it” he was no longer in touch with Australia’s national interests. “Paul Keating hasn’t had the security briefings that are available to the Prime Minister or to me, and I can tell you as (a former) defence minister, (the advice) was pretty specific about the threat to our country,” Mr Dutton said. “The fact that Paul Keating wouldn’t stand up for our country, I think, reflects very poorly on him.” | Australia to become ‘US protectorate’ in Asia, Keating warns | The Australian | Benn Packham
Dutton has had a severe lack in success in every portfolio he has handled. In Defence, his main concerns were stopping military bases from also being given Aboriginal names and a ‘rainbow ban’ for Defence events. Describing Dutton as a political non-entity is a kindness.
The people have spoken
The people are sick of being led into American wars by governments unwilling to develop past a US dependent mindset forged in WWII. If China are such a threat, why are we supplying them with iron ore, coal and beef? To assist them in manufacturing weapons and to feed their military?
An overwhelming majority of Australians – 90% – want the Prime Minister’s war decisions to be subject to Parliamentary approval.
This result comes from a national opinion poll conducted by Essential Research in 2023.
It found that 90% of Australians think the PM’s war decisions should be voted on by MPs and Senators.
Currently the Prime Minister and Cabinet have an exclusive right to take Australia to war. They don’t need Parliament approval.
The full details and breakdown of the survey can be found here.
A similar nationwide survey in 2020 found that 83% of Australians wanted the war powers changed to give all MPs and Senators
a vote on overseas deployments.
The 2020 poll undertaken by Roy Morgan research can be found here.
The message from Australia is clear so why aren’t the politicians listening?
From: Opinion Polls | Australians for war powers reform