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ICAN submission: Inquiry into Australian Naval Nuclear Power Safety Bill 2023
CAMPAIGN NEWS:It’s been a year since the Australian government unveiled its tripartite deal with the US and the UK to acquire nuclear-powered submarines, forecast to cost up to AU$368 billion by the mid 2050s. ICAN Australian believes this plan jeopardises global...
2MSP summary
CAMPAIGN NEWS:The Second Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons took place at the United Nations in New York from 27 November to 1 December 2023. 94 countries and over 700 civil society delegates participated. The Australian...
MEDIA RELEASE: Independents pressure Australia on nuclear ban treaty ahead of UN meeting
CAMPAIGN NEWS:MEDIA RELEASE: Independents pressure Australia on nuclear ban treaty ahead of UN meeting November 24th, 2023 11 independent parliamentarians have issued a public call on the Prime Minister to keep Labor’s promise to sign and ratify the UN Treaty on the...
ICAN Australia calls for immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza
CAMPAIGN NEWS:STATEMENT: ICAN Australia calls for immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza November 2nd, 2023 ICAN Australia supports the urgent calls of the United Nations and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza...
MEDIA RELEASE: “Australia should end its ambivalent attitude towards nuclear weapons,” says Nobel Peace Prize-winning organisation, ICAN.
CAMPAIGN NEWS:MEDIA RELEASE: “Australia should end its ambivalent attitude towards nuclear weapons,” says Nobel Peace Prize-winning organisation, ICAN. October 28th, 2023 At the UN General Assembly’s First Committee today, Australia has failed to take a strong...
Media Release: The Black Mist and The Ban
CAMPAIGN NEWS:MEDIA RELEASE: First Nations atomic survivors and civil society organisations call on the Australian government to sign the nuclear weapon ban treaty, seventy years after the first Emu Field atomic test. Today is the 70th anniversary of the first nuclear...
Civil Society Statement: The Black Mist and the Ban
CAMPAIGN NEWS:Seventy years after the Emu Field atomic tests: First Nations survivors and civil society organisations call on the Australian government to sign the nuclear weapon ban treaty. October 15th is the 70th anniversary of the first nuclear weapon that was...
Wati Ngintakanya Wankani (Waking the Perentie Man) webinar
The 70th anniversary of the first mainland nuclear weapon test at Emu Field in South Australia is coming up on 15 October. To commemorate this date and raise up the call for the nuclear weapon ban, we are delighted to co-host a webinar with Karina Lester, ICAN...
Ban Advocate Profile: Brian Arnell
Ban Advocate Brian Arnell, 50, is a communications adviser and lives in Geelong with his wife and three children. 13th Sept, 2023 As a child, growing up in the American West in the 1980s, Brian Arnell felt the spectre of nuclear war loom large. “I have pretty clear...
International Day Against Nuclear Tests 2023
CAMPAIGN NEWS:In 2009, the United Nations General Assembly declared 29 August the International Day against Nuclear Tests to increase awareness and education about the effects of nuclear weapon test explosions or any other nuclear explosions and the need for their...