Our long weekend of peace concluded with discussions of alternative ways forward. We were honoured to have as speakers Professor John Langmore AM, Chair of the Initiative for Peacebuilding at the University of Melbourne and Alison Brionowski AM, former diplomat, author and President of Australians for War Powers Reform. John and Alison discussed the role […]

The theme for the second day of Raising Peace’s ANZAC weekend (Sunday April 24) was "Alternatives to Australia's security narrative".  Mainstream discussion of the nation’s security is usually limited to talking about defence and the best ways of ‘defending’ Australia, militarily. The most recent manifestation of this approach to security has been the announcement of […]

We started our long weekend of looking for alternatives to Australia's increased militarisation to achieve security for all by listening to First Nations perspectives, taking in the Frontier Wars, Aboriginal Diggers, Blackbirding and the impacts of violence on the Gadigal people. The Gadigal of the Eora Nation and their neighbouring clans were the first to […]