In the News
Below is a selection of recent news highlights featuring ICAN Australia.
After 30 years, Dave Sweeney steps away from ACF
By Jenny Denton, Inner City News, 04 August 2026
Disparate voices confront Labor in chorus of protest
By Abe Maddison, AAP, 24 July 2026
Activists urge Australia to sign treaty to ban nuclear weapons
By Kyle Evans, ABC News, 07 July 2026
Marshall Islands still feeling the effects of cold war nuclear testing
By Kyle Evans, ABC Pacific Beat, 01 July 2026
Exclusive: DFAT’s secret nuclear briefings
By Kristina Kukolja, Saturday Paper, 20 June 2026
Nuclear test survivor’s daughter calls on First Nations communities to speak up on AUKUS
By Natasha Clark, National Indigenous Times, 08 June 2026
Exclusive: Australia’s secret diplomatic cable on Iran on the eve of war
By Daniel Hurst, Deepcut News, 18 May 2026
What will happen to Iran's nuclear program?
Melissa Parke on ABC RN Breakfast, 10 April 2026
Nuclear risk rises: Why Iran war is so dangerous for the world
Tim Wright Interview with TV NZ’s Q+A with Jack Tame, 08 March 2026
“The challenge: Reviving nuclear arms control diplomacy” - Melissa Parke Responds to Gareth Evans
Melissa Parke, Australian Foreign Affairs Journal (AFA26) in response to Gareth Evans in AFA25
Anti-nuke group ICAN urges Japan, Australia to sign nuclear weapons ban
By Ben Doherty, Guardian Australia, 05 December 2025
Who decides who gets nuclear weapons?
Tilman Ruff with Sirine Demachkie, ABC Weekend Evenings, 07 September 2025
Peter Garrett on Australia's need to sign anti-nuclear weapon treaty
Peter Garrett with Sally Sara, ABC Radio National Breakfast, 06 August 2025
A global threat for millennia: experts warn Australia’s nuclear submarine legacy will be weapons-usable uranium cache
By Ben Doherty, Guardian Australia, 25 July 2026
Anti-nuclear activists demand action 80 years on from Bikini tests
With Fran Kelly, the ABC Radio National Hour, 01 July 2026
Aukus is among Australia’s worst foreign policy decisions and requires ‘heroic’ optimism, Gareth Evans says
By Tom McIlroy and Ben Doherty, Guardian Australia, 11 June 2026
Australia's Secret Embrace of US Nuclear Planning
By Jesse Boylan, Declassified Australia, 01 June 2026
Nuclear disarmament is stalling – and the risks are growing
By Tilman Ruff, Pearls & Irritations, 04 April 2026
150+ Civil Society Organisations sign on to the No Nuclear Weapons in Australia Declaration
Epeli Lesuma (PANG) ABC Pacific Beat, 01 April 2026
Trump's failure to extend nuclear treaty leaves door 'wide open' to arms race
By Laura Tingle, ABC, 04 February 2026
Tilman Ruff on ABC The World Today discussing New START
By Andy Park, ABC The World Today, 04 February 2026
Four Corners: Trading Fire
ABC Four Corners, 3 Nov 2025
Trump wants to resume US nuclear weapons testing. This is what it could look like
By Annika Burgess, ABC News, 1 Nov 2025
How humanity could be destroyed in an afternoon Program: Hack
By Dave Marchese, ABC Hack, 13 Nov 2025
Those left behind: The long shadow of Britain’s nuclear testing in WA
By Victoria Laurie, The Good Weekend, The Age/SMH, 10 August 2025
Nobel Peace Prize winners warn of nuclear weapons on Hiroshima anniversary
Gem Romuld on The World, ABC News, 06 August 2025
Anthony Albanese tried to disrupt the last ALP conference in Adelaide – now he’s the master
By Geoff Chambers, The Australian, 22 July 2026
'Jellyfish babies' and the treaty Australia won't sign
By Will Nicholas, AAP, 01 July 2026
AUKUS: Anthony Albanese faces Labor call from within to reconsider US relationship
By Katina Curtis, The West Australian/The Nightly, 09 june 2026
Nuclear powers are expanding their arsenals instead of disarming. Australia doesn’t have to be complicit in this
Tilman Ruff, The Conversation, 25 May 2026
A new nuclear arms race is accelerating. There’s only one way to stop it
Tilman Ruff, The Conversation, 27 April 2026
Israel wants to destroy Iran’s nuclear program. But should it have nuclear weapons itself?
Marianne Hanson, The Conversation, 25 March 2026
The last US-Russia nuclear treaty has expired. What now?
By Angus Holland, The Age, 01 February 2026
'Doomsday Clock' set to 85 seconds to midnight, closer than ever to catastrophe
By Annika Burgess, 28 January 2026
The Nuclear Option
Podcast: After America, Emma Shortis with Ruth Mitchell, The Australia Institute, 02 December 2025
Labor pledged to ban nuclear weapons in opposition. In government it got a reality check
By Angus Grigg, ABC, 03 November 2025
If the US resumes nuclear weapons testing, this would be extremely dangerous for humanity
Tilman Ruff, The Conversation, 30 October, 2025
Remembering the nuclear tests at Maralinga - When the black mist descended on the APY lands
By Alex Barwick, ABC Australia Wide, 08 August 2025
80 Years since bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Tilman Ruff on BBC News, 06 August 2025