Inquiry into international armed conflict decision making

March 2023

© Commonwealth of Australia 2023
ISBN: 978-1-76092-488-1

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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
C. Parliamentary Library Papers
  • 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

Committee Secretariat contact:

Committee Secretary
Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade
PO Box 6021
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600

Phone: +61 2 6277 2313
jscfadt@aph.gov.au

About this inquiry

The Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade has commenced an inquiry into how Australia makes decisions to send service personnel into international armed conflict.

       



Past Public Hearings

09 Dec 2022: Canberra

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