Downloads related to "Economic issues"
SIPRI factsheet on military expenditure 2011
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute data on world military spending for 2011.
Summary of military expenditure data for 2011
Data on 2011 military spending released by the Stockholm International Peace Institute.
Talisman Sabre military exercises 2009 - MAPW letter to parliamentarians
MAPW has written to all Federal and Queensland politicians, raising concerns about the financial and environmental costs of the Talisman Sabre joint US-Australian military exercises being held in Central Queensland in July 2009. The letter asks politicians to support the call by MAPW and DEAi, for a carbon audit of the exercises.
MAPW Fact Sheet: Talisman Sabre, July 2009
MAPW President Dr Sue Wareham prepared this fact sheet on the Talisman Sabre joint US-Australian military exercises. The fact sheet outlines environmental and strategic risks of these "war games".
War, global warming and health: book chapter
The impact of the war machine on global warming and health: a political ecological perspective; by Hans Baer (School of Philosophy, Anthropology, and Social Inquiry and Centre of Health and Society, University of Melbourne). Climate change and the environmental effects of the military industry. Forthcoming chapter in: The War Machine and Global Health: A Critical Medical Anthropological Examination of the Human Costs of Armed Conflict and the Violence Industry. Edited by Merrill Singer and G. Derrick Hodge. AltaMira/Roman Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2009.
Australia is at war. Why? WA full-page ad, MAPW 2008
This full-page advertisement in the Western Australian on 11/11/2008 (Armistice Day) was developed by MAPW's WA Branch, and former Premier Peter Dowding. It questions Australia's spending on overseas wars, in particular Afghanistan, and calls for our troops to be brough home. It would also make a fine poster.
MAPW 2008: Fact sheets 1-12 on the global arms trade
All 12 fact sheets on the global weapons trade prepared by MAPW with the Uniting Church, Quakers and Pax Christi; including Australia's role in armaments production; particular weapons; environmental effects of war; and particular weapons manufacturers. These fact sheets provide a succinct introduction to the human costs of weapons production. * Large file: fact sheets also available for individual download.
The problem of arms fairs: MAPW and partners, 2008
In August 2008, an arms fair planned for Adelaide, South Australia, was cancelled after public protest and a growing campaign to protest at the fair. Three weeks later, an arms fair planned for Ottawa in Canada was cancelled after a public campaign. This fact sheet is No 5 in a series on the global arms trade, and looks at the role of these weapons trade fairs.
The economic cost of militarism: MAPW and partners, 2008
This fact sheet looks at military budgets, major arms exporting countries, and the comparative costs of human health and welfare. It is No 4 in a series on the global weapons trade.
The effects of sanctions on the civilian community of Iraq - 1998
Ullrich Gottstein's slide presentation demonstrates the vast impacts on the Iraqi people after 1990, including issues of food, education, casualties and more. He visited Iraq in 1998.
Health care not warfare. MAPW: Dr Sue Wareham - 2004
This 2004 report by MAPW President Dr Sue Wareham argues that the health and welfare of Australians have been sacrificed by policies that confuse security with military power, and divert funding from health care to killing. It compares in detail the Australian budget for military and other needs.
