This educational booklet on nuclear weapons and solutions is being developed for use in schools, and contains a range of educational activities. The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICANi) is seeking funding to further refine, print and distribute this publication.

The Australian Medical Students Association Global Health Conference will run from 4 to 6 July 2008 in Melbourne, with an impressive academic program of speakers and workshops, on five themes including the determinants of health and the health of marginalised populations.

The Australian government, while being well aware that the political fix called reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel will disappear, has a speculative strategy for dealing with this deadly waste as the window of opportunity for the European option is closing. Paper by Stephen Campbell, Greenpeace Australia Pacific, 2000.

Dr Frank Barnaby outlines the categories of radioactive wastes, the need for a policy on disposal and management of plutonium and its inherent nuclear weapons proliferation aspects. Paper presented at the 2000 MAPW National Conference.

This report prepared by Friends of the Earth (FoEi)  and supported by MAPW and other groups critiques the argument that nuclear power is a solution to climate change, and documents its hazards for security, the environment and human health. (Summary: full report available at FoE website).

This 2007 MAPW report was written by MAPW doctors Hadia Mukhtar and Sue Wareham, with Phillip Salem from Australians for Lebanon. It documents the terrible legacy of cluster bombs in southern Lebanon as a result of the 2006 war, and makes recommendations for Australian action both to assist the survivors, and to prevent the use of these weapons in the future.

This 2004 report by MAPW President Dr Sue Wareham argues that the health and welfare of Australians have been sacrificed by policies that confuse security with military power, and divert funding from health care to killing. It compares in detail the Australian budget for military and other needs.

This 24-page booklet updated by Dimity Hawkins for MAPW sets out the important role of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPTi) and how it can be successfully implemented. It contains the text of the treaty and other relevant documents. (Printer quality version - larger file size).

This 24-page booklet updated by Dimity Hawkins for MAPW sets out the important role of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPTi) and how it can be successfully implemented. It contains the text of the treaty and other relevant documents. (The version linked below is to be read online only - to download a print quality version please click here).

This is a 4-page overview of Securing our survival: the case for a nuclear weapons convention (2007), which  sets out and explains an updated Model Convention aiming eliminate nuclear weapons.

Yellowcake Country? is a report on Australia's uranium industry prepared by the Beyond Nuclear Initiative in 2006. It raises environmental and health risks, and the threat of nuclear war.

This MAPW poster was made using the Michael Leunig cartoon. We are grateful for the artist's generous permission.

Membership form for fax-back or posting.

MAPW membership form for fax-back or posting; including our one-page flyer What does MAPW do?, detailing our last 12 month's activities.

The near-universal use of weapons-grade, highly enriched uranium (HEUi) to produce radiopharmaceuticals used in medicine, is a significant hazard. This peer-reviewed paper argues that health professionals should stop the use of HEU in medicine, as a vulnerable pathway to creating a 'terrorist bomb'. Produced by MAPW doctors Bill Williams and Tilman Ruff, it was published in 2008.