Inquiry into international armed conflict decision making

REPORT - March 2023

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Contents

Chair's Foreword

Committee Membership

Terms of reference

List of recommendations

Chapter 1 - Background and conduct of the inquiry

‘War’ in the contemporary Australian context
Past legislative reform attempts
Conduct of the inquiry

Chapter 2 - The source, nature and exercise of power regarding armed conflict and war

Source of power to decide to go to war
Who can exercise the power?
The power in practice
Committee Comment

Chapter 3 - Parliamentary oversight of decisions relating to armed conflict

Previous instances of parliamentary engagement in armed conflict
Increasing parliamentary engagement and Executive accountability
Methods of parliamentary engagement
A new Joint Statutory Defence Committee

A. Submissions

B. Public Hearing

Table 1. Overseas experience: declarations of war and military deployments in select countries
Table 2: Parliamentary involvement in declaring war and deploying military forces to overseas conflicts

Australian Greens Dissenting Report

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