Military expense Archives

Issue #2004

Fighter jets or green electricity

On 28th March, the government came clean on one of its’ worst kept secrets of the decade when it announced its decision (again) to purchase...

Issue #2027

POSTER: “What’s the cost of war?”

Issue #2155

Austerity and war vs development and peace

Reason seems to have been gradually abolished by the language of bombs. As weapons systems get ‘smarter’ and ‘smarter,’ the range of diplomatic instruments used...

Issue #2083

GLOBAL BRIEFS

RUSSIA: Russia’s top election authority has declared Nikolay Kharitonov eligible to run for president in March elections. He will be representing the Communist Party of...

Issue #2031

CPA: submission to the Defence Strategic Review

The Communist Party of Australia (CPA) is a democratic, transparent and accountable organisation. We are member led and governed by a Central Committee elected every...

CPA President Vinnie Molina speaks at an AUKUS protest in Boorloo/Perth.

Issue #2150

AUKUS in trouble

There have been conniptions in Canberra after the announcement by the US government that it plans to review AUKUS. The UK is reviewing it too....

Issue #2066

Weapons corporations are making a killing

Weapons corporations are making a killing exporting terror around the world. While the USA’s top five weapons contractors make profits topping $200 billion, they’re never...

Issue #2061

GLOBAL BRIEFS

BRITAIN: The number of construction workers killed in site accidents rose sharply from 29 to 45 last year, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has...

Issue #2086

GLOBAL BRIEFS

YEMEN: According to a joint statement from Australia, Bahrein, Denmark, Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States, strikes were conducted...

Issue #2105

Where our real national interest lies

The visit of Chinese Premier Li Qiang to Australia has revealed much about this country and how it views its relationship with China. Two distinct...

Issue #2097

World military spending explodes

World spending on the military in 2023 reached an astronomical $2.44 trillion, according to research just released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)....

A food box packing facility run by the USDA Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) for food support programs including SNAP in Texas.

Issue #2171

People in the US go hungry as Trump spends millions to invade Venezuela

The United States government is in the grips of one of its longest-running funding gaps in history. The ongoing government shutdown has already stretched beyond...

Issue #2035

DINGO

The latest cost estimate for taxpayers of Australia’s pending nuclear submarines at more than $170 billion. Don’t be surprised when Australia’s supply of weaponry to...

Issue #2094

GLOBAL BRIEFS

CUBA: Cuban-American members of the US House of Representatives Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fl) and Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fl) have proposed new sanctions against Cuba, reaffirming the...

Issue #2032

A peace & peoples’ budget

Annual budgets are a mirror held up to the class divide. The income and expenditure sides of the budget come down to priorities. The budget...

Gaza mother with child amongst destruction

Issue #2106

Israeli destruction could spread

US presidential candidates Biden and Trump don’t have much in common – except for blind support for Israel and an almost rabid animosity toward Palestine....

Issue #2097

Where is the Red Menace?

Australia’s political, military, and media elites and the Americans holding their leashes have been doubling and tripling down on China fearmongering in the last few...

Issue #2025

“To give peace a chance, we need to give peace a budget”

On 21st September, the United Nations Day of Peace, the Communist Party of Australia calls for the Albanese Government to step back from war preparations...

Issue #2031

If military spending could provide peace, wouldn’t we have achieved that already?

The Labor Government plans to spend $48.7 billion on the military this financial year, in line with the policies of Morrison and Dutton. There is...

Issue #2039

PEACE NOTES

Hannah Middleton We face two crises which could ultimately destroy humanity and our planet – nuclear and climate Armageddon. A report – Climate Collateral –...

Senator the Hon Penny Wong Minister for Foreign Affairs, The Right Honourable James Cleverly, UK Foreign Secretary, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Richard Marles, Lieutenant Colonel and Captain the Right Honorable Ben Wallace, UK Secretary of State for Defence.

Issue #2096

$100 billion arms budget

The announcement by Minister for Defence, Richard Marles, that Australia’s military spending will reach 2.4 per cent of GDP is chilling news. This means a...

Issue #2053

PEACE NOTES

Hannah Middleton There is always money for the military, no matter how bad the budget bottom line is. The Federal government plans to spend about...

Issue #1957

Gov’t spends billions on military, but people get none!

It seems in every facet Australia is inching closer towards transforming into its transpacific cousin, the United States of America.

Issue #2095

PEACE NOTES

Global Action on Military Spending has issued a statement for its days of action from 12 April to 15 May. The statement, “Disarmament now to...

Issue #2106

GLOBAL BRIEFS

HUNGARY: EU documents and reports from The Financial Times and Sputnik suggest that the EU is increasing pressure on Hungary to end its veto of...

Issue #2097

PEACE NOTES

Hannah Middleton As we pass 200 days of Israel’s military assault on Gaza, the death toll has reached 35,000 and the aid blockade has subjected...

Issue #2103

Free education? Sorry kids, the military has all the money

The 2024/25 Federal Budget in May announced that military spending would be $53 billion, an increase on last year’s figure of $46 billion. The figure...

International Peace Day, Walyalup/Fremantle WA, September 2025.

Issue #2207

AUKUS: our region and our lives

2. AUKUS and the submarine weapon in our geographical region In the time we will have been waiting for submarines, underwater drones will have taken...

Issue #2138

GLOBAL BRIEFS

SYRIA: Russia’s air base at Hmeimim in Syria is sheltering about 9,000 people seeking refuge from a wave of sectarian violence. Most of the civilians...

Issue #2209

PEACE NOTES

We often hear about things the government could fund if they weren’t spending money on the AUKUS pact. Thanks to a person called ‘the Tabulator,’...

Issue #2165

PEACE NOTES

The recent military parade in Beijing, celebrating China’s role in the defeat of fascism, has alarmed and encouraged elements within Australia to push for more...

Issue #2121

PEACE NOTES

The decision to double the Australian military budget to $100 billion a year is now an appalling fact of life. Whether Richard Marles remains the...

Issue #2086

DINGO

Lithuania, claiming a threat from Russia, is ramping up military spending. “Everything we have we threw into Ukraine so that they will be able to...

United States Air Force - McDonnell Aircraft F-101B Voodoo interceptor-fighter

Issue #2055

The Warfare State

The National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies has released an analysis of the militarised budget in the United States, titled “The Warfare...

US soldier in Shoalwater Bay during Talisman Sabre 2011.

Issue #2096

Marles boost to military spending ‘a disgrace’

Peace groups are outraged by Defence Minister Richard Marles announcement at the National Press Club that Australia’s military spending will rise from the current 1.9...

Issue #2062

NO TO NATO

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese attended the summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) in Vilnius, Lithuania on 11 - 12 July. Albanese was present as part...

Issue #2141

PEACE NOTES

At some level, everyone knows that military hardware is expensive. We know this because we hear gigantic figures quoted about it – like the $368...

Issue #2179

Australian taxpayers pay for Philippines’ military bases

In a move that defies economic logic , the Albanese government has decided to invest Australian taxpayers’ money on the construction of five different military...

Long-range Naval Strike Missiles and Joint Strike Missiles to be manufactured in Australia with Norway’s Kongsberg Defence.

Issue #2124

Conroy puts war on the election agenda

Pat Conroy, Australia’s Minister for Defence Industry and Capability Delivery, has delivered a disturbing speech to the National Press Club. It was akin to a...

Issue #2097

AUKUS boosters start to doubt

Fans of unintentional humour could do a lot worse then head over to ‘The Strategist,’ the website/journal of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), and...

Issue #2052

Not a People’s Budget

Budgets involve a redistribution of wealth reflecting government priorities and serving class interests. The 2023-24 federal budget has clear priorities. The big winners are the...

Issue #2100

Arms corporations win, People lose

Australians will be poorer but not more secure as a result of the massive increase in military spending in the next financial year outlined in...

Issue #2067

Stop AUKUS!

Labor’s war hawks succeeded in cementing AUKUS and the nuclear submarines and missiles that go with it in the party’s platform at its national conference...

Issue #2204

CPA comrade fronts AUKUS inquiry

Graham Holton, a long-term Communist Party of Australia member and valued contributor to this paper put in a submission to the AUKUS Public Inquiry taking...

Issue #2100

More for war in a class budget

“In a cost-of-living crisis, the Labor government is choosing to remove $14.4 billion in funding from the NDIS that will lead to disabled people not...

Issue #2185

Workers pay war costs

Australian workers and their families, like workers around the world, played no part in the illegal US-Israeli war in the Middle East, yet they are...

Issue #2207

End US war alliance

The Albanese Labor government talks about protecting Australia’s “sovereign capacity” while not only surrendering to US imperialism but subsidising the US to the tune of...

Issue #2206

Marles and Hegseth talk AUKUS

On 2 September Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister, Richard Marles, met with US Secretary of Defence, Pete Hegseth, at the Pentagon in Washington, DC,...

Issue #2149

Australia-US ‘alliance’

The alliance with “our great and powerful friend” the USA comes at a human and financial cost to Australians, currently demonstrated by the Albanese government’s...