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ICAN Australia International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Australia). We are part of a global campaign to stigmatise, prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons.

All nations must sign and ratify the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Our Goal: Australia's ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons is a global grassroots movement for the stigmatisation, prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons. We helped achieve the 2017 UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear W

eapons, which nations are now signing and ratifying. This treaty bans the production, testing, use and possession of nuclear weapons, and establishes a framework for their elimination. ICAN was awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for our work to raise awareness of the catastrophic humanitarian impacts of nuclear weapons and to achieve the nuclear weapon ban treaty. ICAN was launched in 2007 in Melbourne, Australia, as an initiative of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), a global federation of medical professionals. Today more than 500 organisations in 100 countries are part of ICAN and thousands of individuals have signed our pledge for a nuclear-weapon-free world. We provide a voice to the overwhelming majority of people across the globe who support nuclear abolition. There is no other weapon that can kill hundreds of millions of people in a few hours and bring about the end of human civilization. Nuclear weapons are illegal, immoral and genocidal. They have no legitimate purpose, and are futile against any of today's real security threats, such as climate change, poverty and pandemics. In fact, they divert funds needed to address these problems. ICAN is generating an irresistible groundswell of public opposition to nuclear weapons, in all countries. We are working for universal adherence to the nuclear weapon ban treaty Together we must work for one future, with zero nuclear weapons. Contact: australia[at]icanw.org
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Since the 1960s, secretive facilities at Northwest Cape, near Exmouth in Western Australia, and Pine Gap, near Alice Spr...
04/06/2026

Since the 1960s, secretive facilities at Northwest Cape, near Exmouth in Western Australia, and Pine Gap, near Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, have supported US early warning, communications and targeting operations – essential for nuclear war planning. These facilities on Australian soil, and our reliance on US extended nuclear deterrence, implicate us in US nuclear operations.

Under the Australia-US alliance, the US is preparing to deploy up to six B-52 bombers to RAAF Tindal airbase, near Katherine in the Northern Territory from this year. Will they be conventional-only bombers, nuclear-capable, or a mixture of both? And will the government be told?

ICAN Australia's Jesse Boylan - - has written an in-depth article for about politicians hide behind "strategic ambiguity" to keep Australians in the dark about American nuclear weapons on our soil.

Read the article via the link in our stories, or via declassifiedaus.org



repost Between 1952 and 1963 the British Government, with the agreement and support of the Australian Government, carri...
03/06/2026

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Between 1952 and 1963 the British Government, with the agreement and support of the Australian Government, carried out nuclear tests at three sites in Australia.⁣
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Karina Lester‘s father, the late Yankunytjatjara elder Yami Lester, was blinded by the "black mist" fallout from the one of the tests in 1953.⁣
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She is now an ambassador for the International Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), an organisation that works with nuclear survivors to campaign for a ban on nuclear weapons.⁣
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ICAN advocated for the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), which entered into force on 22 January 2021. It prohibits nations from developing, testing, producing, manufacturing, transferring, possessing, stockpiling, using or threatening to use nuclear weapons, or allowing nuclear weapons to be stationed on their territory. It also prohibits them from assisting, encouraging or inducing anyone to engage in any of these activities.⁣
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The organisation was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their work “to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons”. But there is much more work to do.⁣
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Although the treaty is currently ratified by 74 state parties, Australia is not one of them. Neither are the nine countries known to have nuclear weapons: the UK, US, India, Pakistan, Russia, North Korea, Israel, France and China.⁣
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At this year’s NPT Review Conference, atomic bomb survivors once again reminded the world of the catastrophic humanitari...
28/05/2026

At this year’s NPT Review Conference, atomic bomb survivors once again reminded the world of the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons.

Nihon Hidankyo — the Nobel Peace Prize-winning organisation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors — called on all countries to reject nuclear deterrence and join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Their message is urgent: nuclear weapons do not protect humanity — they threaten it.

As survivor Jiro Hamasumi said, nuclear weapons are “weapons of the devil that cannot coexist with humanity.”

The TPNW is the first global treaty to comprehensively ban nuclear weapons and provides a pathway toward their total elimination. At a time of rising nuclear threats and expanding arsenals, countries like Australia must step up and sign the treaty in this term of government.

The voices of hibakusha have warned the world for decades. The question is whether governments will finally listen.

At the recent Victorian Labor Conference, Victorian Labor called on Federal Labor for signature in this term of governme...
26/05/2026

At the recent Victorian Labor Conference, Victorian Labor called on Federal Labor for signature in this term of government 💪

Escalating global tensions, renewed nuclear threats, expanding nuclear arsenals and the end of arms control and disarmament agreements have pushed the risk of nuclear use to it highest level in decades.

Nuclear disarmament is core Labor business - upholding international law, preventing humanitarian catastrophe, and ensuring peace and security for future generations.

VIC Labor reaffirms their commitment to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and to the 2023 Labor Platform commitment to sign and ratify the treaty! 🧡

Check out our latest Substack post by ICAN Australia’s Tilman Ruff‼️The NPT review conference in New York just ended wit...
26/05/2026

Check out our latest Substack post by ICAN Australia’s Tilman Ruff‼️

The NPT review conference in New York just ended with no agreement — for the third conference in a row. While nuclear states modernise and expand their arsenals, meaningful disarmament continues to stall.

Tilman Ruff emphasises that Australia cannot keep claiming to support peace while deepening military integration through AUKUS, hosting nuclear-capable forces, and not signing the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

Real security comes from disarmament — not escalation. Australia must sign and ratify the TPNW and reject any role in the use or threat of nuclear weapons.

The full article is on our Substack. The link can be found in our bio. Please give it a read! 🫶🏼

Australians are being kept in the dark ❌A DeepCut News article has recently questioned Australia’s response after it qui...
22/05/2026

Australians are being kept in the dark ❌

A DeepCut News article has recently questioned Australia’s response after it quickly aligned with US statements following Israel and US strikes in Iran.

Tilman Ruff from ICAN Australia warns that “you can’t bomb your way to non-proliferation.”

Full article here: https://www.deepcutnews.com/p/exclusive-australias-secret-diplomatic

Australia must sign the TPNW to signal its commitment globally to nuclear disarmament 💪

The Illawarra may become a military target under the AUKUS agreement 🫵The Guardian recently wrote that a proposed nuclea...
19/05/2026

The Illawarra may become a military target under the AUKUS agreement 🫵

The Guardian recently wrote that a proposed nuclear submarine base in Port Kembla “could be a target for Australia military adversaries,” revealed through secret NSW government documents.

The Australia government must reject nuclear weapons by signing the nuclear weapons ban treaty. Australia cannot become a launchpad for nuclear weapons ❌

Australians are being pushed closer to nuclear danger without our knowledge and without our consent.As global tensions r...
18/05/2026

Australians are being pushed closer to nuclear danger without our knowledge and without our consent.

As global tensions rise and conflict escalates, Australia is being drawn deeper into US military strategy through AUKUS and broader military integration. That means more risk, more secrecy, and a greater chance that nuclear-capable bombers, warships and submarines could operate from, through, or alongside Australian territory.

The United States refuses to confirm or deny whether its vessels and aircraft carry nuclear weapons. Australia accepts that policy. Australians may never know if nuclear weapons are being brought into our country.

This is unacceptable.

If nuclear weapons are brought into Australia, ordinary people would carry the risk while decisions are made behind closed doors. And if Australia is seen as part of a US nuclear war machine, that makes us a target too.

Join the No Nuclear Weapons in Australia Webinar tomorrow night. Link in Bio

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