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Torquay GP is new MAPW leader

Written 02/09/2009

Dr Bill Williams was elected the new President of MAPW during the National Council meeting on the weekend of 29-30 August 2009.

MAPW National Council hears report on nuclear treaties

Written 02/09/2009

MAPW's National Council, which met on the weekend of 29-30 August 2009, was addressed by the Member for Wills, Kelvin Thomson M. Mr Thomson chairs the Australian Parliament's significant Joint Standing Committee on Treaties (JSCOT), which is expected to report later this month on its broad-ranging inquiry into Australia’s nuclear treaties.

Tamils in detention: statement by Sue Wareham

Written 20/08/2009

20 August 2009. MAPW President Sue Wareham made a statement in regards of the state of the approximately 300,000 Tamils still in detained in camps in Sri Lanka.

MAPW concerned over expansion of the Olympic Dam mine: August 2009

Written 13/08/2009

MAPW has argued that the proposed expansion of the Olympic Dam uranium mine would lead to further threat from the nuclear fuel chain, as uranium mining is the starting point for the greatest environmental threat that humanity faces – nuclear weapons.

Hiroshima remembered around Australia

Written 06/08/2009

MAPW members joined commemorative vigils around Australia to mark the dropping of an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima at 8.15 on a summer morning in 1945.

The terror of Hiroshima: Sue Wareham in Online Opinion

Written 06/08/2009

MAPW President Sue Wareham has marked Hiroshima Day with a piece in Online Opinion, reminding readers that  the Hiroshima bomb was a very small weapon by today’s standards, and yet an estimated 90,000 people died immediately it fell on the Japanese city.

Unholy Trinity: 65 years of nuclear weapons

Written 06/08/2009

On 16 July, the 65th anniversary of the US Trinity nuclear weapons test, MAPW Vice President Bill Williams wrote in Online Opinion that it’s time to promote the retirement of the world’s worst weapons of terror through a global treaty.

MAPW President writes on Talisman Sabre in On Line Opinion

Written 15/07/2009

MAPW President Dr Sue Wareham OAM looks at the environmental cost of the 2009 Talisman Sabre military exercises in her 10 July article on On Line Opinion

Dr Wareham argues that war and its preparation is the "one human activity that manages to escape scrutiny in our efforts to address climate change". 

MAPW calls for carbon audit of "wargames"

Written 08/07/2009

MAPW has asked Federal and Queensland politicians to support their request for the Australian Government to conduct a carbon audit of the Talisman Sabre joint US-Australian military exercises currently being held in Central Queensland.

MAPW prepares for military exercises

Written 25/06/2009

THURSDAY 25 JUNE. Talisman Sabre, which are major joint US and Australian military exercises, occur every two years in Queensland and the Northern Territory. MAPW has criticised these, as the exercises cause the environment to suffer greatly, and are also a threat to Australia's security.