If Peter Dutton and his like want to conduct war games to enhance their pre-election prospects, perhaps they should play a few rounds of paintball

As a desperate Morrison government recklessly spruiks what it insists are the prospects of armed conflict with China, now is exactly the right time to introduce a legal curb on the federal executive’s unilateral capacity to commit Australian troops to war.

Since the recent emergence as defence minister of prime ministerial wannabe Peter Dutton, the federal government has dangerously amped-up the prospect of Australian war with China over Taiwan, for what some consider cynical political purposes ahead of an election.

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