We can win a nuclear weapons ban treaty (Advocate 25 02)

Following a decade of advocacy by Melbourne-founded ICAN and its partners, on 7 July 2017, 122 nations voted to adopt the historic global agreement to ban nuclear weapons. The Australian Government did not attend the conference and is not a signatory, and the Coalition will not consider signing it. The Coalition maintains that they cannot afford to alienate the United States, which refuses to even countenance the Treaty. More...