RESOURCE:
Australia’s cross-party legacy on treaties
There is a proud bipartisan history of Australia joining disarmament, arms control, and nuclear security treaties.
Australia has joined almost every applicable universal and regional arms control and disarmament agreement at this time, with the exception of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), which opened for signature in New York on 20 Sep 2017.
This new resource, Australia: Disarmament, Arms Control and Nuclear Security Treaties recounts Australia’s bipartisan history of leadership under both the Labor and Coalition governments, highlighting multiple examples of treaties that were signed by a Coalition government and ratified by a Labor government, and vice versa.
TREATIES
Geneva Protocol
Genocide Convention
Geneva Convention
Antarctic Treaty
Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT)
Outer Space Treaty
Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)
Seabed Treaty
Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC)
ENMOD Convention
Inhumane Weapons Convention (CCW)
Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material and its Amendment (CPPNM)
South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty (SPNFZ)
Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)
Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)
Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Treaty (Ottawa Convention)
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
Nuclear Terrorism Convention (ICSANT)
Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM)
Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)