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MAPW President Dr Bill Williams : Prospects for peace in Afghanistan

Written 08/12/2009

MAPW President Dr Bill Williams has written to Australian Minister for Defence Senator John Faulkner, congratulating the Minister for not committing additional Australian troops to Afghanistan.

MAPW Dr Sue Wareham : ACT disability services award for major weapons manufacturer?

Written 01/12/2009

MAPW Immediate Past President Dr Sue Wareham has written to ACT Chief Minister Mr John Stanhope concerning the Minister's Award of Excellence for services to people with a disability given to Raytheon Australia. Dr Wareham's letter notes 'there is a terrible irony in the receipt of such an award by a major weapons manufacturer.'

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MAPW expresses concerns about Three Mile Island radiation leak

Written 24/11/2009

The Medical Association for Prevention of War (Australia) notes with concern the dismissal by authorities of possible health consequences of a radiation leak at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant last weekend.

"Hiroshima and the World": Tilman Ruff on building a world free of nuclear weapons

Written 17/11/2009

ICANi Chair, NGOi advisor to the ICNNDi and MAPW former President Associate Professor Tilman Ruff writes in major Japanese newspaper Chugoku Shimbun giving a personal reflection on his own experience in Hiroshima 20 years ago and argues for a Nuclear Weapons Convention.

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'.

MAPW urges humanitarian treatment of Sri Lankan Asylum Seekers

Written 29/10/2009

MAPW President Bill Williams has written a letter to Immigration Minister Chris Evans, urging that Australia’s response to Sri Lankan asylum seekers be humanitarian, and in accordance with international human rights law.

MAPW supports Bill for parliamentary approval for wars

Written 29/10/2009

MAPW has supported a Bill before Australia's Parliament, which would require the Parliament to give approval before Australia sends troops to an overseas war.

MAPW President slows down nuclear spin

Written 19/10/2009

MAPW President Bill Williams was invited to submit an opinion piece on the future role of nuclear power, to The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald following a prominent article and Age editorial on nuclear power, on Tuesday 13 October.

MAPW President Bill Williams on ridding the world of nukes

Written 24/09/2009

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 UNi 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

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).