StopAUKUS-WA

Stop AUKUS WA is a campaign group based in Western Australia.
All posts are authorised by Leonie Lundy.

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

Laundering war to the next generation of battle fodder.

“Lockheed Martin, Raytheon & BAE Systems are using the classroom to launder their images and enlist the next generation as cogs in the military-industrial complex.”
Consortium News https://t.co/NYCYAf0FB4

[Communist Party of Australia @communist_au]

Hiroshima Never again.
Thursday 6th Aug, 4.30pm Wesley Church corner, William & Hay Streets Perth.
@stopaukuswa

[AWPR @WarPowersReform]

The $368 bn AUKUS security deal ties Australia closer to Trump, but we now have an opportunity to get out of it.

Sign the petition calling on Parliament to review this disastrous deal.

https://t.co/SEKjRnr4kB

[IPAN - Independent Peaceful Australia Network @IPAusNet]

Labor party members give evidence at the AUKUS INquiry saying they don’t know any Labor members who support AUKUS-#aukusinquiry

[Rex Patrick @MrRexPatrick]

Everything the Govt does, it does on our coin. Everything the Govt does, it should do for public purpose. So we have a right to know. When it comes to transparency @AlboMP has proven to be a disappointment and a shameless hypocrite. #auspol

[KellieTranter @KellieTranter]

[Arguably both the Ocean of Peace Alliance Treaty and AUKUS undermine the Blue Pacific Ocean of Peace Declaration and the wishes of peacebuilders in the Pacific]

“Peace and security in our region must be defined by Pacific peoples themselves. Security has never been about borders, weapons or military power. It means the safety of families, protection of land and ocean, dignity, culture, language and the right to live free from violence, fear, ecological destruction and domination…

Pacific civil society isn’t merely a beneficiary of policy, we are partners in shaping it….The Pacific must never be reduced to a theatre of strategic competition. Our ocean must not be militarised in the name of security while communities confront climate disasters, gender based violence, economic injustice, ecological loss and the unresolved legacies of nuclear testing.

The Pacific has already carried the violence of nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands, Kiribati, French Polynesia and here in Fiji through affected communities and veterans.

Nuclear justice is a living demand for healthcare, trauma healing, humanitarian justice, environmental restoration and accountability.

The Treaty of Rarotonga remains a vital expression of our nuclear free aspiration but it must be reviewed and strengthened where ambiguity remains around the transitory passage of nuclear powered and potentially nuclear armed vessels.

Increasing militarisation is already affecting communities, especially women. It diverts resources from care, health, education, climate resilience, local peacebuilding and protection. It normalises armed responses to complex challenges and risks deepening violence, surveillance, exclusion and dependency.

A feminist peace and security approach asks different questions: Not only how do we defend the State, but how do we protect life? Not only who controls the sea lanes but who safeguards the ocean as a commons? Not only how do we respond after violence but how do we address its root causes?

A feminist future honours feminist peace-builders. The women who broke the bows and arrows amid violence, the women who nurtured the nuclear free and independent Pacific movement and the grandmothers, aunts, mothers, sisters, elders, faith leaders, healers, organisers and quiet guardians who taught peacebuilding long before it had a formal name.

It also requires decolonisation and Pacific agency. A regional architecture must reflect Pacific priorities, not external agendas and all peoples of our region must be free to live beyond occupation and reclaim traditional knowledge, custom, language and self-determination.

Community led peace and human security are vital for preventing crises, armed conflict, militarisation, climate disasters, ecological loss, economic injustice and violence.

We must invest in local peace building systems that address the drivers of inequality, insecurity and exclusion before they escalate.

Leadership in the Pacific is a collective relationship and trusted practice through listening and mediation. Financing is critical…

We must demilitarise our understanding of security and centre human security. We must resource feminist and community led peacebuilding through sustained, flexible, multi-year financing that reaches Pacific Island led organisations and networks. And we must strengthen regional peace and security architecture so that Pacific women mediators, youth leaders, customary leaders, faith leaders in civil society aren’t consulted at the margins, but actively lead at local, national and regional levels.

An ocean of peace can not be built by States and militaries alone. It will not be built by States and militaries alone. It will be sustained by Pacific Island people who practise peace every day in our villages, settlements, churches, classrooms, markets, meeting houses, mediation spaces and movements.

May we continue to protect our ocean, reshape power, honour our foremothers and peacebuilders and carry forward a Pacific vision of peace, rooted in justice, solidarity, self-determination and care.”

~ Sharon Bhagwan Rolls, Fiji | Fiji Island feminist and peacebuilder whose work sits at the intersection of gender, media, communications, climate justice and peacebuilding (BUILDING AN OCEAN OF PEACE [Pacific Peace Network] 4 July 2026)

#auspol #AUKUS

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

An Australian with direct knowledge told me of a US special forces member ‘blooding’ a newly arrived Australian special forces trooper by shooting a prisoner in the head to show how easy it was.

It seems more than a trivial coincidence that rogue special forces soldiers in ALL the Five Eye countries have been credibly accused of murdering civilians and prisoners of war.

#AUSCANNZUKUS #FVEY

“The UK SAS was under a chain of command “that did not place the same level of significance on the moral domain in the way we fight.” The SAS seemed to be “out of control,” benefitting from a “culture of exceptionalism”.

SAS Drove Prisoners Off Forklifts ‘For Fun,’ Inquiry Told – Consortium News

https://t.co/g1lgcuY6ey

[Rex Patrick @MrRexPatrick]

Christopher Pyne’s evidence to the #AUKUS Public Inquiry was different to mine.

* He was a politician; I was a submariner.
* He ran the House of Reps; I ran submarine industry projects.
* He’s profiting from AUKUS; I’m paying for AUKUS.

#auspol https://t.co/yjVSJTOrhX

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

Within 15 minutes Trump announced the end of the ceasefire in Iran with fresh attacks, threatened to invade Greenland (again) and threatened Spain. That’s not an ally, that’s an erratic bully.

[Australia Anti-Bases @ozantibases]

#AUKUS Out campaigning against AUKUS

[IPAN - Independent Peaceful Australia Network @IPAusNet]

Important facts Yes we want a demilitarised Pacific with no missiles submarines fighter jets It’s time to Break Free from the USA

[IPAN - Independent Peaceful Australia Network @IPAusNet]

https://t.co/Io2tYg84sw US Filmmaker and Journalist Abby Martin is coming to Australia with her film Earths Greatest Enemy and keynoting at the IPAN conference in Adelaide July 24-26 Register conference https://t.co/c31VGaCwoB Film https://t.co/Tb1cCVwl9Y #aukus

[AWPR @WarPowersReform]

"AUKUS was ill-conceived and debases our democracy, threatens our sovereignty, is financially obscene and is creating a safety, security and nuclear risk for our community" @stopaukuswa #aukus

https://t.co/9SHaYhYOsr

[AWPR @WarPowersReform]

#aukus
"Why does Australia find itself in a situation where it will potentially join a foolish war, arm-in-arm with the United States against China, Canberra’s largest trading partner?"

https://t.co/SKG156YUOd

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

🚨 BIAS EXPOSED 🚨
Why didn’t a mainstream media reporter point out the anti-China hypocrisy of these statements:

👉 Defence minister Richard Marles said of a Chinese missile test that Australia is "very concerned".
👉 Foreign Minister Penny Wong labelled the test as "destabilising to the region".

So why didn’t a reporter ask them their attitudes to the far, far more regular US nuclear-capable missile tests in the Pacific Ocean?

▪️“The USA has conducted more than 80 nuclear-capable inter-continental missile flight tests across the Pacific Ocean since 2000 — the most recent was only four months ago.

▪️“Nuclear-capable US Minuteman III ICBMs are regularly test fired from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California to crash into the Kwajalein Atoll lagoon in Marshall Islands lagoon.

▪️“Four nuclear-capable ICBM missile tests were fired from the US mainland across 6,800 kms of the Pacific to the Marshall Islands, in the past two years.

June 4, 2024:
An operational readiness test flight of an ICBM.

June 6, 2024:
Another operational readiness test flight executed 48 hours later.

November 4, 2025:
An operational strategic validation launch struck the target coordinates inside the Marshall Islands testing window.

March 3, 2026:
Test flight GT-255 completed its trans-Pacific trajectory to test guidance system accuracy.

https://t.co/PvqRia4puU @ABCnews

[Labor Against War @LabAgainstWar]

We missed this last week. How’s this!

Government can’t find a head for the Australian Submarine Agency. Former defence secretary suggests it should be an American!

How’s the sovereignty?

https://t.co/9L9msjZnyY

[Australia Institute @TheAusInstitute]

Emma Shortis shares some thoughts after watching the first day of hearings for the Public Inquiry into AUKUS.

Watch the full hearing here: https://t.co/d2cdgRfyWL

[Australia Institute @TheAusInstitute]

Learn more about the inquiry here ⤵️
https://t.co/wQhHIMoUSv

[Crikey @crikey_news]

The public inquiry into AUKUS will be the first major test of the project's social licence, writes Wanning Sun.
https://t.co/pM6pedWwCE

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

This is an important win with Labor forced to restore the sunset clause. It’s clear though that they intend to work with the Libs to expand warrant less questioning and we will keep fighting them!