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New Clear Exchange ICAN workshop: Melbourne 1 May 2010

Written 07/04/2010

Flyer for the final New Clear Exchange workshop run  by ICANi and supported by MAPW.

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Global Zero World Summit

Written 17/11/2009
Event Date: 
Sat, 30/01/2010 (All day) - Thu, 04/02/2010 (All day)
Location: 
Paris

Global Zero World Summit in Paris January 30 - February 4 2010

Global Zero is looking for a handful of smart savvy, entrepreneurial university students to attend the Global Zero Summit in Paris from January 30 to February 4, as representatives of a growing youth-led movement for the elimination of nuclear weapons worldwide. 

A small group of applicants who

MAPW President: 'Nuclear delusions keep mushrooming'

Written 17/11/2009

MAPW President Dr Bill Williams has written to Australian PM Kevin Rudd to applaud the PM's 'recently expressed commitment to continue to reject nuclear power as an energy source in Australia'.

Is nuclear energy the answer?

Written 24/09/2009
Event Date: 
Thu, 01/10/2009 - 19:00
Location: 
Melbourne

The nuclear comeback - is nuclear energy the answer?

Screening of  the excellent documentary "Uranium: Is it a Country?"

A discussion will be followed with Jim Green, National Nuclear Campaigner, Friends of the Earth.

ICAN media release: Government urged to act on nuclear treaty - September 2009

Written 17/09/2009

17 September 2009 ICANi media release following the tabling of the report of the Joint Standing Committe on Treaties, on Australia's nuclear treaties.

application/pdf iconICAN JSCOT media release 170909.pdf

Parliamentary call for nuclear abolition welcomed

Written 17/09/2009

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).

Hiroshima Day 2009: John Langmore address, St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne

Written 20/08/2009

Professor John Langmore addressed a special service in commemoration of Hiroshima Day, at St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne on 6 August 2009. His speech considers the ethical questions involved in the possession and use of nuclear weapons; and what should be done about this problem.

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MAPW’S Dr Bill Williams imagines abolition

Written 30/04/2009

30 APRIL 2009. MAPW Vice-President Dr Bill Williams has had a feature published in Online Opinion this week.

Time to upgrade Nuclear Weapons-Free-Zone treaties

Written 10/12/2008

MELBOURNE, 9 DECEMBER. Australia's nuclear treaties Inquiry offers a chance to call for a strengthened South Pacific Nuclear Weapons-Free Zone, MAPW members heard last night.

Associate Professor Michael Hamel-Green, Australia's foremost expert on nuclear weapons-free zones (NWFZs), was the guest speaker at a well-attended Victorian Branch dinner. 

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