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Peace and the Climate Crisis
Our climate crisis impacts on health and undermines prospects for peace.
Read MorePaul Daley: Militarisation of Australian History
Read Paul Daley's speech on the militarisation of Australian history, presented at the annual MAPW ACT dinner.
Read MoreQuit Nukes: Launch
Our newest campaign has launched today, 24 October, on the first day of global disarmament week.
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UK Ruling on Arms Sales Should Trigger Australian Ban
The Medical Association for Prevention of War welcomes the UK Court of Appeal’s finding that arms sales to Saudi Arabia are unlawful. Australia must now immediately suspend all military exports to Saudi Arabia.
Read MoreIran: Resist the Slide to War
MAPW unequivocally opposes any moves that will escalate tensions, and we call on our government to resist a slide to war.
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Health Facilities: Not A Target
Medical Association for Prevention of War condemns the latest attacks on health workers and health facilities in Yemen.
Read MoreOpposition to War Memorial’s $498 million extension grows
MAPW National President, Dr Sue Wareham, and National Secretary, Dr Margaret Beavis, are amongst the 83 prominent signatories to a open letter calling for a halt to the half-billion dollar proposed expansion of the Australian War Memorial.
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Australian Labor Party commits to sign and ratify UN Treaty
MAPW welcomes the resolution by the ALP national conference to sign and ratify the 2017 UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons when next in government.
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Peak health professionals support MAPW call for Australia to sign the nuclear weapons ban treaty
Peak health organisations, representing hundreds of thousands of members, have signed on to a call for Australia to commit to signing the 2017 UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
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Are they in safe hands?
It is far from reassuring to hear President Trump proclaim that he and Putin control more than 90 per cent of the world’s nuclear weapons. These weapons constitute a major hazard to world peace and health. Are they in safe hands? It is time for Australian politicians to reconsider our decision not to sign the […]
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Sign the Petition – the ALP must commit to join the UN Nuclear Weapons Ban
We have launched a new petition calling on the Australian Labor Party (ALP) to commit to signing and ratifying the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The ALP is currently finalising their policy platform to take to the next federal election. The ALP is in the process of deciding their position on […]
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Australian Weapons Trade, Subsidies, Fuel Yemen Crisis
The failure to acknowledge the role of Australian weapons sales in perpetuating the human catastrophe in Yemen is unsustainable.
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Australia Preaches Respect for International Law in Syria while undermining the Law
Health professionals in Australia have strongly criticised the government for preaching respect for international law in Syria, while practising the opposite. Australia strongly endorses attacks on Syria by the US, the UK and France which violate international law, given they are neither conducted in self-defence nor authorised by the UN . Claims by Foreign Minister […]
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Keep a strict line
(Published by The Age – letters page 5 February 2018) Over the years Australia has sold guns to government institutions in Papua New Guinea, which have sold them on to criminals in the civilian population. Armed violence now makes PNG one of the world’s most dangerous countries for its own citizens and for visitors. Australia […]
Read MoreSubmission: BHP
BHP's proposed Olympic Dam Tailing Storage Facility (TSF 6) does not meet acceptable standards. We've made four recommendations to the federal government.
Read MoreLearning from Fukushima
Eight years on from the world's most complex nuclear disaster, what has been learned?
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MAPW writes to Minister Canavan, ARPANSA about ongoing nuclear waste saga
For far too long nuclear waste management has been thought about well after the waste is produced.
Read MoreMAPW submission to the Joint Committee on Treaties inquiry – Generation IV Nuclear Energy – Accession
The inquiry will examine the following treaty: Framework Agreement for International Collaboration on Research and Development of Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems, as extended by the Agreement Extending the Framework Agreement for International Collaboration on Research and Development of Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems (Washington, 28 February 2005)
Read MoreIran: Resist the Slide to War
MAPW unequivocally opposes any moves that will escalate tensions, and we call on our government to resist a slide to war.
Read MoreOpposition to War Memorial’s $498 million extension grows
MAPW National President, Dr Sue Wareham, and National Secretary, Dr Margaret Beavis, are amongst the 83 prominent signatories to a open letter calling for a halt to the half-billion dollar proposed expansion of the Australian War Memorial.
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The Strategic Dilemmas in Militarising Australian Exports
The Australian government’s recent decision to adopt an ambitious new defence manufacturing plan has met with controversy. Far beyond most job-creation initiatives, Malcolm Turnbull’s plan has international ramifications.
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PM Turnbull’s ‘jobs’ argument for war profiteering is a sham
PM Turnbull’s push to make Australia a major weapons exporter puts paid to any pretence we might have of being a peace-loving nation. And his claim that it’s all about jobs is a sham. War profiteering is one of the least effective ways to create jobs.
Read MoreIran: Resist the Slide to War
MAPW unequivocally opposes any moves that will escalate tensions, and we call on our government to resist a slide to war.
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Parliamentary Debate on Going to War is Long Overdue
This week marks the 15th anniversary, on March 20, of one of Australia’s most disastrous foreign policy decisions – our involvement in the invasion of Iraq. To characterise this as “our” involvement however does a great disservice to the millions of Australians who were vehemently opposed to the decision that was made by just one […]
Read MoreNCA Refuses Silent Peace Vigil on ANZAC Parade on Armistice Centenary
Canberra citizens are planning a Gathering for Peace on Anzac Parade on Remembrance Day, to stand in silent commemoration of those Australians and others who suffered the horrors of World War 1, with the message “Honour Them – Promote Peace”. However the National Capital Authority is denying permission for such a gathering. In response to […]
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Australia has failed to invest in peace, rather than scourge of war
Full marks for Stephanie Dowrick’s article “War — what is it good for?” (July 21, Forum p10). Dowrick rightly identifies Australia’s failure to invest financially in peace rather than war. Our funding for diplomacy has been slashed, while funding for war sky-rockets. The poor old weapons industry even gets a leg-up with government subsidies, despite […]
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Should arms dealers really be funding the Australian War Memorial?
To hear Brendan Nelson tell it, arms manufacturers have a patriotic duty to fund the Australian War Memorial. It’s about “completing the loop”, he says. And it’s certainly not crass. “You need to know that the man on behalf of BAE Systems with whom I negotiated the sponsorship of our theatre, the BAE Systems Theatre, […]
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How the Australian War Memorial has lost its way
Australians do not “remember, interpret and understand the Australian experience of war”. Perhaps such an understanding in the case of the Frontier Wars might raise extremely uncomfortable questions about the implications for modern day Australia and our approach to warfare, or perhaps a focus on the Frontier Wars against the first people of Australia simply […]
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Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
Recipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize
why I support MAPW
Dr Marcus Yip
Emergency Medicine Registrar
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Lobna Alukaidey
Medical Student
University of Melbourne, Victoria
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Dan Vinh Le
Medical Student
University of Melbourne, Victoria
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Margaret Beavis
General Practitioner
National Secretary - MAPW
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Dr Marcus Yip
Emergency Medicine Registrar
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Lobna Alukaidey
Medical Student
University of Melbourne, Victoria
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Dan Vinh Le
Medical Student
University of Melbourne, Victoria
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Margaret Beavis
General Practitioner
National Secretary - MAPW
[Click to view video]
Dr Marcus Yip
Emergency Medicine Registrar
[Click to view video]
Lobna Alukaidey
Medical Student
University of Melbourne, Victoria
[Click to view video]
Dan Vinh Le
Medical Student
University of Melbourne, Victoria
[Click to view video]
Margaret Beavis
General Practitioner
National Secretary - MAPW
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