Archive - Sep 2009

MAPW President Bill Williams has together with ICANⁱ's James Norman assessed Barack Obama's steps towards a nuclear free future in The Age.

"When Barack Obama takes the unprecedented step of chairing the UN Security Council in New York tonight, he will be setting in motion a personal vision to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

If this vision were to be fulfilled, or eve

MAPW and ICANⁱ - the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons - have welcomed today's call by a federal parliamentary inquiry, for Australia to play a leading role in ridding the world of nuclear weapons through a global Nuclear Weapons Convention (NWC).

Dr Bill Williams was elected the new President of MAPW during the National Council meeting on the weekend of 29-30 August 2009.

MAPW's National Council, which met on the weekend of 29-30 August 2009, was addressed by the Member for Wills, Kelvin Thomson M. Mr Thomson chairs the Australian Parliament's significant Joint Standing Committee on Treaties (JSCOT), which is expected to report later this month on its broad-ranging inquiry into Australia’s nuclear treaties.