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Recent News

Budget increases military spending

Written 15/05/2013

Last year's cuts to defence spending have been restored in this year's budget.

MAPW urges against uranium sales to UAE

Written 15/05/2013

MAPW has prsented a submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties against the sale of uranium to the United Arab Emirates.

ICAN petition against nuclear weapons

Written 08/05/2013

ICANi has launched an online petition campaign which aims to show the nations participating in the upcoming conference in Mexico that there is strong support for a treaty banning nuclear weapons.

Lest we forget

Written 01/05/2013

26 April was the anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown - contamination continues, containment crumbles - and fuelled by uranium. Leave it in the ground.

Sally Attrill comments on Governor Peter Underwood's ANZAC Day speech

Written 01/05/2013

On Saturday 27 April Sally Attrill, Treasurer of Tasmanian MAPW's Tasmanian Branch had the follwing letter published in the Hobart Mercury:

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