MAPW promotes health and peace. That’s why we’re passionate about the need for urgent climate action. Our climate crisis impacts on health and undermines prospects for peace. As resources dwindle, droughts take hold and crops fail, tensions rise and wars become more likely. As war becomes more likely, the threat of nuclear war increases. In […]
Australia
Submission: 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.
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.
Political Interference in Medical Decisions Unethical
Medical Association for Prevention of War calls on the Federal Parliament to pass the Urgent Medical Treatment Bill. Dr Sue Wareham will address a rally of supporters outside Parliament House, Canberra, from 11am today.
Report Discredits the ‘Rules Based Order’
We are often told the Australian military alliance with the United States allows us to adhere to the “International Rules Based Order”. A 2018 report found that the “rules” don’t always apply.
AWM ‘partnership’ with Lockheed Martin must end
In the lead-up to Remembrance Day, there are renewed calls for the Australian War Memorial to dissociate itself from the arms companies that supply the repressive and murderous Saudi Arabian government. Lockheed Martin is one of those companies. It has a new three-year deal with the Memorial which, “this year focus[ed] on initiatives commemorating the […]