by WILPF Australia | Oct 4, 2021 | Disarmament, Militarisation
WILPF Qld members and other Brisbane peace groups held a footpath demonstration for Maralinga and to bring back the Brisbane Nuclear Free Zone Signs. Sixty-five years ago, on the 27th of September 1956, British forces began the atomic bombing of the Anangu peoples...
by WILPF Australia | Sep 27, 2021 | Disarmament, Militarisation
WILPF Tasmania President and former Australian senator Margaret Reynolds talks to ABC Northern Tasmania Drive’s Kim Napier on International Peace Day about the Morrison government’s radical decision to acquire a nuclear-powered submarine fleet. KIM...
by WILPF Australia | Sep 20, 2021 | Disarmament, Militarisation, Militarism
By WILPF Australia’s Harriet Binet, published in the Mercury Talking Point, Hobart Mercury,18 September 2021 Harriet Binet warns nuclear submarines will be the flagships of a khaki election PRIME Minister Scott Morrison’s plan to buy and manufacture nuclear...
by WILPF Australia | Sep 17, 2021 | Disarmament, Militarisation
16 September 2021 WILPF Australia calls for urgent public scrutiny into Australia’s acquisition of nuclear-powered submarines The announcement today that Australia will purchase and manufacture nuclear powered submarines is further evidence of rapid and dangerous...
by WILPF Australia | Aug 13, 2021 | Disarmament, Militarisation, News
A moving ceremony was held on Saturday 7 August at the Canberra Rotary World Peace Bell to remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Conducted by the Rotaract Clubs of Brindabella and the University of Canberra, the ceremony opened with a song from the Australian Military...