Time for nuclear-free defence posture

Press release

The Peace Organisation of Australia today welcomed Prime Minister Rudd’s pledge to promote nuclear disarmament, but claimed that it is a “hollow promise” unless the Australian Government adopts a nuclear-free defence posture and ceases the sale of uranium to nuclear-armed nations.

The second inconvenient truth

Tilman Ruff & Tim Wright

THE WORLD today faces two inconvenient truths. Both are frightening and incontrovertible. Yet only one of them, global warming, has made its way to the fore of public consciousness. The other, while even more stark, has somehow escaped our attention. But there’s no denying we stand at the brink of a second nuclear age. The infamous Doomsday Clock is fast approaching midnight.

Australia's sad cluster bomb legacy

Press release

DIPLOMATS from more than 100 states have finalised the text for a treaty on cluster bombs. “This is a great achievement, but in some ways a missed opportunity. The treaty should have been much stronger.

A madness that threatens us all

Tim Wright & Lyn Allison

IT IS high time governments, both nuclear armed and unarmed, began rethinking how to tackle one of humanity’s great challenges: destroying the nuclear monster before it destroys us.

How to kill militarism

Tim Wright

WORLD military expenditure is soaring skywards like a missile that has lost the control of its commander. And Australia must bear some of the blame. Like many countries, we’ve substantially increased the proportion of our Budget allocated to defence over the last few financial years.

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