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DO YOU WANT AUSTRALIA TO JOIN THE NUCLEAR WEAPON BAN TREATY?

Nine heads of state have the ability to launch more than 13,000 nuclear weapons between them, threatening all life on this planet.

 

To address this existential peril, a global majority of nations have negotiated a treaty to finally outlaw nuclear weapons. The 2017 United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is the circuit breaker to the nuclear status quo. It is our best chance against our worst weapon.

STATUS OF THE NUCLEAR WEAPON BAN TREATY:

SIGNATORIES

STATES PARTIES

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons was awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of our work “to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons” and our “ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons”.

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Briefing for Labor delegates

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Dr Sophie Scamps MP statement on the TPNW

CAMPAIGN NEWS: Statement of Dr Sophie Scamps MP on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 4 July 2023  The world knows only too well that any use of nuclear weapons would be an unmitigated humanitarian catastrophe. As a doctor, it’s clear to me that even a...

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Parliamentary Friends of the TPNW speeches on atomic legacies

CAMPAIGN NEWS:During the recent Atomic Survivor Delegation to Canberra, two of the co-chairs of the Parliamentary Friends of the TPNW gave speeches in the House of Representatives and in the Senate on the ongoing legacy of the British nuclear tests in Australia. Josh...

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WHO BACKS THE BAN?

AUSTRALIAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION’S NATIONAL GENERAL ASSEMBLY

THE AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY HAS COMMITTED TO SIGN AND RATIFY THE TREATY IN GOVERNMENT

HUNDREDS OF AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENTARIANS

THE GLOBAL RED CROSS RED CRESCENT MOVEMENT

THE AUSTRALIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

THE AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL OF TRADE UNIONS AND 20+ UNIONS

AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE, OFFICE OF SOCIAL JUSTICE

INTERNATIONAL LAWYERS

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