We are delighted to share the news that Australia will attend the first Meeting of State Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, in Vienna, as an observer.
Federal Member for Macquarie, Susan Templeman MP, will head up Australia’s delegation. She stated to ICAN in 2022, ‘I’ve been committed to this for as long as I can remember’.
An open letter to Prime Minister Albanese, calling on him to join the TPNW, signed by 55 former Australian Ambassadors and High Commissioners was been released 20 June, 2022.
There is hope yet, for a ‘Nuclear Weapons Free Future’.


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