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Anti-war protesters marked the second anniversary of the secretive AUKUS pact, calling for it to be stopped. Jim McIlroy reports.

Sydney Stop the War Coalition released a statement opposing the deployment of Australian Defence Force trainers and raising concerns about the lack of parliamentary oversight, reports Kerry Smith.

Anastasia Shevchuk, a Ukrainian-Australian gave this address to a Sydney Stop the War Coalition protest against Russia’s war on Ukraine on March 6.

Hundreds of billions of dollars are being spent by the Australian government on a new arms race that includes long-range missiles that can reach China. This is money that should be better spent on health, welfare education, justice for First Nations people and addressing the climate emergency instead of on handouts to corporate arms dealers. At the same time, but a little more under the radar, is Australia’s participation in the 50th anniversary of the Five Power Defence Arrangements which includes provocative military exercises with Britain, Malaysia, Singapore and New Zealand this month, ...

“There is now evidence that the strikes were on Iraq, not Syria, as the US has claimed. Iraqi-born exile Sam Ramadani said that the US killed personnel from Iraqi Popular Mobilisation Forces which had taken a leading role in defeating ISIS and other terrorists who were being protected by the US. “Decades of US bombing and occupation in the Middle East is proof that bombing raids continue war and do nothing to bring peace. “Biden has shown himself to be no different to Republican and Democrat presidents who unleashed and maintained the US ‘war of terror’ in the Middle East.