This one-page flyer explains how leaving a bequest to MAPW can support our work for peace. It outlines some types of bequests, and suggests that members may like to consider including a bequest to MAPW in their will.

"Elevated chromosome translocation frequencies in New Zealand nuclear test veterans" is an important study by Associate Professor Al Rowland and Massey University researchers. It documents the health effects for NZ sailors who witnessed Britain's Grapple nuclear tests at Christmas Island in the 1950s. The study documents evidence of long term genetic damage, of a type linked to the presence of a wide range of illnesses and with the potential to result in intergenerational effects It has been published in the leading international peer-reviewed scientific journal "International Cytogenetics and Genome Research". 

"Nuclear weapons and other cheerful things; Easy ways for doctors to make a difference and why we should". This introduction to nuclear weapons issues covers major issues including war, nuclear testing and terrorism. (Slides addressing medical audiences could be left out to give an excellent general introduction). Prepared by MAPW President Dr Sue Wareham, OAM.

Address to the conference "Imagining the Real : Life on a Greenhouse Earth" held at ANU, Canberra in June 2008. Dr Wareham presented some reasons that nuclear power is not the solution to climate change; and emphasised a second inconvenient truth . . . 26,000 nuclear weapons, which must be abolished. Dr Sue Wareham OAM is President of MAPW. 

Flyer for meeting on Tuesday July 8 2008, organised by MAPW Victorian Branch, to hear from Assoc Prof Tilman Ruff and Yarra Councillor Jenny Farrar about the NPTi PrepCom in Geneva, May 2008. Also honouring - and with special guest - Senator Lyn Allison.

The Asia Pacific Defence and Security Exhibition (APDSE) is an arms fair. It will be held in Adelaide from 11-13 November 2008. It provides military companies from all over the world with an opportunity to display and sell their latest war fighting machinery. It opens, inappropriately, on Remembrance Day. This introductory flyer sets out some basic facts.

MAPW has congratulated Prime Minister Kevin Rudd for his announcement that Australia will set up a new international body to push for nuclear disarmament. President Dr Sue Wareham OAM, also an Australian Board Member of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, said that Mr Rudd should also be applauded for visiting Hiroshima – the first Australian Prime Minister to do so. Dr Wareham and others are available for comment.
 

In Dublin between 19 May and 28 May, 110 governments negotiated a new international treaty, the Convention on Cluster Munitions, that will ban cluster munitions that “cause unacceptable harm to civilians”. The treaty bans all the cluster munitions that have been extensively used. This article by Dr Mark Zirnsak, National Coordinator for the Australian Network to Ban Landmines, analyses the outcome, and the Australian government's role.

NSW Branch media release, 2 June 2008, welcoming an end to Australia's combat role in Iraq and calling for an investigation into possibility of referring former PM JOhn Howard to International Criminal Court regarding his role in sending Australian troops to Iraq. Contact MAPW (03 8344 1637 or 0431 475 465) to speak to Sue Wareham (National President) or Robert Marr (NSW Coordinator) on 0433 766 513

Flyer for a public meeting on Friday 13 June 2008, at Belgrave, in Melbourne's outer east, on US bases, indigenous self-determination and Australia's links to regional militarisation. Speakers are two indigenous Chamoru activists campaigning against US plans to move thousands of marines from Okinawa to Guam.

MAPW is supporting a workshop on Guam, military bases and the struggle for an independent Pacific, including two indigenous Chamoru activists campaigning against US plans to move thousands of marines from Okinawa to Guam. 2-page leaflet: or print page 1 only as a poster.

Flyer for Melbourne fundraising concert on Saturday 21 June 2008 — The Long Dark Night of the Arms Trade — a fund-raiser on the winter solstice weekend, for the campaign to stop APDSE (the Adelaide arms fair in November 2008.

Draft policy for professional organisations on highly enriched uranium (HEUi).

IPPNWi fact sheet adapted from the 2007 article by B Williams and T Ruff in Medicine, Conflict and Survival. Outlines the dangers of using of highly enriched uranium (HEUi) in the production of medical isotopes, and the urgent obligation to work towards the elimination of medically-related commerce in HEU, closing a significant pathway to the "terrorist bomb".

Tim Wright attended the nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty Preparatory Committee Meeting in Geneva in May 2008 on behalf of ICANi. MAPW Immediate Past President Tilman Ruff, with Yarra Councillor Jenny Farrar, were NGOi representatives on the official Australian delegation. This ICAN report describes both the official meeting, including Australia's role; and the unofficial campaign meetings and workshops of anti-nuclear NGOs which accompanied it.