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Countdown to review of the Non-Proliferation Treaty

Key nuclear states Israel, North Korea, India & Pakistan remain non-signatories to the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).  What is your government's current position on the treaty and issues under review?
The next review conference will be held at the UN in New York City in May next year.  This Japanese call from arms […]

The Prime Minister’s IV

To quote a press release issued today on behalf of those presently involved in this anti-war protest in northern Australia:
Christian Activists enter restricted military area during live-fire exercises
Four nonviolent Christian activists have entered the Shoalwater Bay Training Area this morning to stop the Talisman Saber exercises.  Calling themselves 'the Bonhoeffer 4' after Kevin Rudd’s […]

‘The most violent place in Asia’

Extra-judicial killings are a major source of human rights violation in Asia, according to the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), and, of eleven countries reviewed in the Commission’s 2006 Report on human rights in the region, Sri Lanka is the worst. On this second anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami, reconstruction in the north-east of […]