Image: Historian Henry Reynolds assesses the role war plays in our society. (Mark Pegrum / Flickr CC BY 2.0)

Australian governments find it easy to go to war – that’s Henry Reynolds' assessment of the role war plays in our society. In this year’s Brisbane Peace Lecture he says that rather than debate the rationale for the wars we fight, we obsess about our own performance, desperate to prove to our “great and powerful friends” that we “punch above our weight”.

Australia’s unnecessary wars presented by Queensland Division of the United Nations Association of Australia. 21 September 2017

Guest

Henry Reynolds – historian, academic at the University of Tasmania