Military spending

Destruction of Australian War Sales Catalogue event held in Sydney 30 June 2018

A public rally to protest against the Coalition government's Defence Export Strategy and the Australian Military Sales Catalogue took place on June 30 outside the Queen Victoria Building in Sydney’s CBD. Below is an extract from one of the speeches. "By this public destruction of the Australian Military Sales Catalogue today, we symbolically protest against the Government spending $3.8 billion…

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16 July 2018
Aboriginal affairs

NAIDOC Week – 8 to 15 July 2018

A 'Reflection' presented by Peter Griffin (Pax Christi NSW) at St Vincent’s Church in Redfern, Sunday 8 July 2018. Good Morning. As we gather today, let us bring to mind that we are on Aboriginal land. It is not easy for non-Aboriginal people to appreciate the difference between owning land and being owned by the land. The difference is between…

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10 July 2018
War and Remembrance

ANZAC Day Reflection in Sydney – 25 April 2018

'Richardson's Lookout - Marrickville Peace Park' was the location for this year's Anzac Day Reflection in Sydney organised by Gallipoli Centenary Peace Campaign (GCPC*). The event attracted over 50 people who came together to pay tribute to Australian soldiers killed during WWI and other wars that Australia has engaged in. This includes all Indigenous Australians who served in these wars,…

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29 April 2018
Nuclear Weapons

Australia Must Sign the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty

Message for Foreign Minister Julie Bishop MP   A historic global agreement was reached at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Friday, July 7, 2017 when 122 nations adopted a treaty to ban nuclear weapons. Known officially as the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, it will acquire legal force once 50 nations have signed and ratified it.…

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23 August 2017
Australia

Public Lecture: Make Australia Great Again or Make the Planet Great Again?

Lecture topic: Make Australia Great Again or Make the Planet Great Again? Is it one or the other, or both, or neither? Speaker: A talk and discussion with Emeritus Professor Joseph Camilleri. When: Monday 14 August, 5.00pm - 7.00pm Where: Carslaw Lecture Room 179, University of Sydney. Organised by: Jointly presented by the University of Sydney’s Department of Peace and…

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12 August 2017
Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: 100 Days and Counting – Families of Missing Seek Answers

The article reproduced below is about the one hundred days of continuous protest by families of the disappeared in Kilinochchi in Sri Lanka. It was published in The Sunday Leader on 8 April 2017. Tuesday, 30 May 2017 marked one hundred days of continuous protest by families of the disappeared in Kilinochchi in Sri Lanka. Around 1000 protesters from across the Northern…

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4 June 2017
War and Remembrance

Anzac Day Reflection – 25 April 2017

Reflection notes from Fr Claude Mostowik msc Tuesday 25 April 2017 - Richardson’s Lookout – Marrickville Peace Park Listening to the news, it would seem that religion is more often used as a pretext for violence than peace. But, the Scriptures and our faith traditions contain a strong mandate for compassion and peace. Together they offer a radical reshaping of human…

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25 April 2017