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It’s time to get serious about eliminating nukes

It’s time to get serious about eliminating nukes

Australia has long been a champion of nuclear non-proliferation. It has observed the electorate’s wishes about the undesirability of developing any local nuclear industry, for military or non-military purposes. And it has also, at times, been a strong advocate for...
AUKUS – A strategic and diplomatic debacle

AUKUS – A strategic and diplomatic debacle

“When Dr. Evatt came [to the UN] he was a virtually unknown second-string delegate, with the background of a professor and Labor politician. He leaves, recognized as the most brilliant and effective voice of the Small Powers, a leading statesman for the world’s...
Foreign policy and global warming

Foreign policy and global warming

Global warming is a genuinely ‘wicked’ question: it comprehends multiple economic, environmental, geophysical, political, social and strategic dimensions all interacting and intersecting with each other in random ways. And like most wicked questions, the...
Containment, hedging and wedging

Containment, hedging and wedging

By adopting a small-target stance on China policy, Labor has surrendered agency over the most important element of Australian foreign policy. The Coalition has effectively wedged Labor on China which has seen Labor implicitly following the Coalition down the path of...
Climate action

Climate action

The core mission of the Evatt Foundation is to advance the ideals of the labour movement that H. V. (Doc) Evatt embodied in his life and work: equality, democracy, social justice and human rights. In view of Evatt’s work to promote these values not only domestically...