The following letter from MAPW President was published in The Age on 31 January 2012. The letter calls for the establishment of a nuclear free zone in the Middle East.
On 26 January 2012 ICAN launched a statement calling upon the Prime Minister Julia Gillard to take a leadership role in efforts to ban nuclear weapons.
Labor sells out on nuclear non-proliferation, a joint media release from MAPW and ICANi on 4 December, following the ALP conference decision to sell uranium to India.
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICANi) has received legal advice casting doubt on the legality of Julia Gillard's proposal that the Australian government should sell uranium to India.
Formal legal opinion provided to ICAN by Professor Don Rothwell from the Australian National University states that the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty prohibits Australia from selling uranium to countries that have not accepted full-scope safeguards.
