War Powers. Again.

You cannot blame AWPR for trying, because the status-quo of Australia's war powers is dismal.

(Even nutty religionists get things right somehow, and the best policy is to encourage them when they do. Most varieties of pragmatism in the service of progress must extend that far.)

I suggest - and have suggested before - Australian War Powers can be managed with a situational alert status coupled with a rapid (on-line) referendum. If Australia is directly and direly threatened, then emergency war powers for the executive are implemented and power is given to the executive to declare war and war-footings, or mobilise the nation's defence forces to repel the threat. This would only be under obvious, unequivocal, and extreme circumstances such as direct declarations of war or immediate military threats to Australia itself.

Otherwise - in order to carry out such deployments as that currently undertaken by our AUKUS-treaty forces in the SCS, a referendum would be required. MSM outlets and various weirdo-warmonger politicians blathering propaganda and hand-waving about how red and evil China is, for example, would not be remotely enough to trigger high-alert status.

The requisite system could look like the AIDR's Australian Warning System for weather and natural disaster alerts but have a military and military-strategic role/function. Any on-line referendum required could be managed using the same system.

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