Media Releases
Media Release: Defence Minister highlights nuclear risks – the challenge is to address them
CAMPAIGN NEWS: Against a backdrop of growing international tension and conflict involving nuclear weapons states, Defence Minister Richard Marles told the National Press Club today that the world is on the “foothills of a new nuclear arms race” which “will drive...
Media Release: As tensions rise, Australian and Pacific voices unite to keep nuclear weapons out of Australia
CAMPAIGN NEWS: Against the current global uncertainty and the growing threat of Australia hosting nuclear weapons over 150 civil society organisations across Australia and the Pacific have united in a call for a nuclear weapons free Australia. Led by the...
Media Release: ICAN Australia alarmed at France’s moves towards nuclear arms race
CAMPAIGN NEWS: The Australian founders of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) have warned that President Macron’s announcement of an expansion of France’s nuclear arsenal risks accelerating a new global arms race. The decision underscores a...
Media Release: ICAN Australia Condemns Strikes on Iran and Calls on Australia to Champion International Law and Diplomacy
CAMPAIGN NEWS: The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) Australia joins ICAN International to unequivocally condemn yesterday’s military strikes by the United States and Israel on Iran. Nuclear-armed states launching unlawful attacks is no way to...
Media Release: End of New START escalates risks for Australia
CAMPAIGN NEWS: The collapse of the New START treaty on 5 February removes the last legally binding limits on the world’s two largest nuclear arsenals at a time of heightened global tension and nuclear threats. With inspections halted, data exchanges frozen, and no...
Media Release: Doomsday Clock warns of rising nuclear danger—Australia can still change course
CAMPAIGN NEWS: Today, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists reset the Doomsday Clock from 89 to 85 seconds to midnight, signalling that humanity is moving closer to catastrophe. The new setting reflects a world facing escalating nuclear dangers and a full-blown new...
Government backflips on nuclear-capable submarines under AUKUS
CAMPAIGN NEWS: The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) has warned of escalating nuclear risks after Senate Estimates confirmed the government would not stand in the way of US Virginia-class submarines entering Australian waters while armed with...
Target Australia: Four Corners sounds alarm on nuclear weapons
CAMPAIGN NEWS: The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), has called on the Australian government to urgently advance the signature of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) to address growing nuclear dangers. The call follows last...
Media Release: Trump Administration to resume nuclear testing – and the Albanese government faces one
CAMPAIGN NEWS: President Donald Trump has instructed the US Department of War to “immediately start testing US nuclear weapons” on an equal basis to China and Russia, who have recently conducted tests of nuclear-capable delivery vehicles. The last time Russia, China...
Media Release: Australian support for US nuclear strikes undermines international law, rules and norms.
CAMPAIGN NEWS:Australian interests are not advanced by supporting US attacks on Iran. Formal Australian government support for recent US military strikes on nuclear facilities in Iran is inconsistent with key principles of international law and diplomacy and are...