MAPW's succinct submission to the Australian Government’s 2020 summit, in April 2008, was prepared by MAPW President Dr Sue Wareham. It discusses three areas of concern: nuclear weapons; war as a response to terrorism; and our future security.

MAPW proposes that :

• Australians cannot be secure in a nuclear-armed world. We urges the Australian government to act on its commitment to nuclear weapons abolition as a matter of urgency. 
• War as a response to terrorism has been a catastrophic failure. 
• Our security will be best served by using our financial and technical resources to seek global solutions to the enormous challenges that we face, in health, the environment and susbtainable resources; rather than by acquiring threatening weapons systems. 

Read the submission.