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*We seek to bear witness* to the possibility of a stable, peaceful order where 'each person shall sit beneath their own vine and fig tree and study war no more'; to an order where each person has access to the resources requisite for the sustenance and ourishing of life from a domestic suffciency with stability, peace and justice;

*We seek to bear witness* to a society in which each takes responsibility for their needs and for the assistance of their neighbours, their 'mates', without exploitation of other people and places; to society able to participate in building an international peace and a just distribution of resources.

*We seek to bear witness* to a society which is gratefully dependent upon sun and soil, with peace, not upon oil and supermarket with war.

*We hope* for the transformation of the military; for the use of its incredible skillbase and resources for the cultivation of a stable domestic suffcency which has the capacity to be hospitable and generous.

*We call* for an end to the logic of 'national security' which demands that the nation is forever grasping for scarce resources or is threatened by those eeing for their lives.

*We call* for a military which becomes a force for creative change:

  • A task force for the cultivation of a domestic stability; for the possibility of hospitality and peaceful resettlement of people;
  • A task force which will build the domestic infrastructure required for a graceful descent into a lower energy future;
  • A task force for the implementation of creative and courageous policies on climate change, the spread of disease, water and other resources;
  • A task force for the rebuilding of a stable society with a domestic sufficiency and international cooperation;
  • A task force for the assistance of weakened governments in the Asia-Pacific region.

    • Australia is an island nation and its national limits must be recognised: Australia cannot feed the world. This nation can, however, prepare, not for war but to feed ourselves without exploitation and generously assist others in crisis to settle and built their own peaceful order wherever it is possible. Australia will be a leader in a peaceful Asia, a pacific Pacific.

    A stable order must be build *NOW*, as crisis looms. The eve of trouble will and us ill prepared and unable to act with the creativity which is required of us.

    Australia's military is perhaps the organisation most equipt to turn its hand for this task. We call for its personel to take up shovels and other tools of constructive change, laying down their weapons.

    The security of Australia will not be derived from armed preparedness for the perceived threats of climate change and peak oil but rather through the cultivation of a stable and peaceful domestic order and a resource aware posture of hospitality and mutual aid to our neighbo urs with awillingness to participate in international cooperation.

     

    Harry Wykman

     

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