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Budget increases military spending

Written 15/05/2013

Last year's cuts to defence spending have been restored in this year's budget.

Disarmament double-speak

Written 22/05/2013

At a recent meeting of parties to the Non-Proliferation Treaty in Geneva, the Australian government refused to sign on to an 80-nation statement declaring that any use of nuclear weapons would have catastrophic humanitarian consequences.

MAPW urges against uranium sales to UAE

Written 15/05/2013

MAPW has prsented a submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties against the sale of uranium to the United Arab Emirates.

ICAN petition against nuclear weapons

Written 08/05/2013

ICANⁱ has launched an online petition campaign which aims to show the nations participating in the upcoming conference in Mexico that there is strong support for a treaty banning nuclear weapons.

Lest we forget

Written 01/05/2013

26 April was the anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown - contamination continues, containment crumbles - and fuelled by uranium. Leave it in the ground.

Sally Attrill comments on Governor Peter Underwood's ANZAC Day speech

Written 01/05/2013

On Saturday 27 April Sally Attrill, Treasurer of Tasmanian MAPW's Tasmanian Branch had the follwing letter published in the Hobart Mercury:

Australia's military relationships: MAPW War and militarism paper no.7

Written 16/04/2013

Completing MAPW's series, a new two-page paper by Stewart Firth discusses our military relationships.

World military expenditure falls, but China, Russia’s spending rises, and Australia still a big spender

Written 15/04/2013

World military expenditure totalled $1.75 trillion in 2012, a fall of 0.5 per cent in real terms since 2011, according to figures released today by SIPRIⁱ.

Letter on North Korea by Dr Sue Wareham

Written 10/04/2013

The role of the US is highlighted in a letter on North Korea by MAPW Vice President Dr Sue Wareham published on Saturday 6 April in The Sydney Morning Herald.

Korea: Use of nuclear weapons must be prevented - IPPNW

Written 08/04/2013

IPPNWⁱ Co-Presidents - including MAPW's Tilman Ruff - have written to the leaders of North and South Korea, and the USA, reminding them of the sobering reality of the humanitarian effects of nuclear was, and urging a comprehensive global treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons.

The letter reads: