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AWM Director Received Payments from Weapons Company
Latest: AWM director received personally received payments from weapons maker Thales.
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Health Facilities: Not A Target
Medical Association for Prevention of War condemns the latest attacks on health workers and health facilities in Yemen.
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Opposition to War Memorial’s $498 million extension grows
MAPW National President, Dr Sue Wareham, and National Secretary, Dr Margaret Beavis, are amongst the 83 prominent signatories to a open letter calling for a halt to the half-billion dollar proposed expansion of the Australian War Memorial.
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Australian Weapons Trade, Subsidies, Fuel Yemen Crisis
The failure to acknowledge the role of Australian weapons sales in perpetuating the human catastrophe in Yemen is unsustainable.
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AWM Director Received Payments from Weapons Company
Latest: AWM director received personally received payments from weapons maker Thales.
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Health Facilities: Not A Target
Medical Association for Prevention of War condemns the latest attacks on health workers and health facilities in Yemen.
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Opposition to War Memorial’s $498 million extension grows
MAPW National President, Dr Sue Wareham, and National Secretary, Dr Margaret Beavis, are amongst the 83 prominent signatories to a open letter calling for a halt to the half-billion dollar proposed expansion of the Australian War Memorial.
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Australian Weapons Trade, Subsidies, Fuel Yemen Crisis
The failure to acknowledge the role of Australian weapons sales in perpetuating the human catastrophe in Yemen is unsustainable.
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Australian Labor Party commits to sign and ratify UN Treaty
MAPW welcomes the resolution by the ALP national conference to sign and ratify the 2017 UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons when next in government.
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Peak health professionals support MAPW call for Australia to sign the nuclear weapons ban treaty
Peak health organisations, representing hundreds of thousands of members, have signed on to a call for Australia to commit to signing the 2017 UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
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Are they in safe hands?
It is far from reassuring to hear President Trump proclaim that he and Putin control more than 90 per cent of the world’s nuclear weapons. These weapons constitute a major hazard to world peace and health. Are they in safe hands? It is time for Australian politicians to reconsider our decision not to sign the […]
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Sign the Petition – the ALP must commit to join the UN Nuclear Weapons Ban
We have launched a new petition calling on the Australian Labor Party (ALP) to commit to signing and ratifying the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The ALP is currently finalising their policy platform to take to the next federal election. The ALP is in the process of deciding their position on […]
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Australian Weapons Trade, Subsidies, Fuel Yemen Crisis
The failure to acknowledge the role of Australian weapons sales in perpetuating the human catastrophe in Yemen is unsustainable.
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Australia Preaches Respect for International Law in Syria while undermining the Law
Health professionals in Australia have strongly criticised the government for preaching respect for international law in Syria, while practising the opposite. Australia strongly endorses attacks on Syria by the US, the UK and France which violate international law, given they are neither conducted in self-defence nor authorised by the UN . Claims by Foreign Minister […]
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Keep a strict line
(Published by The Age – letters page 5 February 2018) Over the years Australia has sold guns to government institutions in Papua New Guinea, which have sold them on to criminals in the civilian population. Armed violence now makes PNG one of the world’s most dangerous countries for its own citizens and for visitors. Australia […]
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End the Avalon Air Show Arms Fair – MAPW concerns presented to Victorian Legislative Council – March 8 2017
MAPW is calling for the Avalon International Airshow to no longer promote the sale of weapons. Over 400 people signed a petition calling on the State Government of Victoria to no long support the airshow financially. The Petition has been presented to Daniel Andrews office. We are grateful to Sue Pennicuik MLC, for raising the […]
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MAPW writes to Minister Canavan, ARPANSA about ongoing nuclear waste saga
For far too long nuclear waste management has been thought about well after the waste is produced.
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MAPW submission to the Joint Committee on Treaties inquiry – Generation IV Nuclear Energy – Accession
The inquiry will examine the following treaty: Framework Agreement for International Collaboration on Research and Development of Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems, as extended by the Agreement Extending the Framework Agreement for International Collaboration on Research and Development of Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems (Washington, 28 February 2005)
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Flinders Ranges group holds nuclear meetings
Residents of the Flinders Ranges gathered at the Hawker Sports Club on Sunday, March 19, for the third of a series of public meetings about the federal government’s proposed Barndioota nuclear waste facility. The meetings, organised by the Flinders Local Action Group (FLAG), explored the risks and ‘unknowns’ surrounding a proposal to store Australia’s intermediate […]
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Ten more questions about Australia’s nuclear waste – February 2017
1. Is the waste dump needed for nuclear medicine to continue? No. The government is confusing the nuclear waste we have now with nuclear waste they are planning to make in the future.
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AWM Director Received Payments from Weapons Company
Latest: AWM director received personally received payments from weapons maker Thales.
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Opposition to War Memorial’s $498 million extension grows
MAPW National President, Dr Sue Wareham, and National Secretary, Dr Margaret Beavis, are amongst the 83 prominent signatories to a open letter calling for a halt to the half-billion dollar proposed expansion of the Australian War Memorial.
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The Strategic Dilemmas in Militarising Australian Exports
The Australian government’s recent decision to adopt an ambitious new defence manufacturing plan has met with controversy. Far beyond most job-creation initiatives, Malcolm Turnbull’s plan has international ramifications.
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PM Turnbull’s ‘jobs’ argument for war profiteering is a sham
PM Turnbull’s push to make Australia a major weapons exporter puts paid to any pretence we might have of being a peace-loving nation. And his claim that it’s all about jobs is a sham. War profiteering is one of the least effective ways to create jobs.
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Parliamentary Debate on Going to War is Long Overdue
This week marks the 15th anniversary, on March 20, of one of Australia’s most disastrous foreign policy decisions – our involvement in the invasion of Iraq. To characterise this as “our” involvement however does a great disservice to the millions of Australians who were vehemently opposed to the decision that was made by just one […]
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Parliament Needs to Decide If We Go to War – letter published by Dr Sally Attrill, MAPW Branch Convenor, Tasmania
I agree strongly with Lorraine Davie’s letter. It is time Australian legislation is changed so that our Cabinet does not have the power to join us in a war, without approval by parliament, except perhaps in very exceptional circumstances such as a direct attack on Australia.
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Read the MAPW submission to the Foreign Affairs & Trade White Paper on Foreign Policy – submitted February 28 2017
On 28th February 2017, MAPW made a submission to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade white paper on Australian Foreign Pollicy. (Click here to read the submission in full). The key recommentations are as follows,
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The Turnbull government must keep Australia out of US wars
Australian foreign policy and defence forces are too closely enmeshed with the US, according to a group of health professionals.
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NCA Refuses Silent Peace Vigil on ANZAC Parade on Armistice Centenary
Canberra citizens are planning a Gathering for Peace on Anzac Parade on Remembrance Day, to stand in silent commemoration of those Australians and others who suffered the horrors of World War 1, with the message “Honour Them – Promote Peace”. However the National Capital Authority is denying permission for such a gathering. In response to […]
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Australia has failed to invest in peace, rather than scourge of war
Full marks for Stephanie Dowrick’s article “War — what is it good for?” (July 21, Forum p10). Dowrick rightly identifies Australia’s failure to invest financially in peace rather than war. Our funding for diplomacy has been slashed, while funding for war sky-rockets. The poor old weapons industry even gets a leg-up with government subsidies, despite […]
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Should arms dealers really be funding the Australian War Memorial?
To hear Brendan Nelson tell it, arms manufacturers have a patriotic duty to fund the Australian War Memorial. It’s about “completing the loop”, he says. And it’s certainly not crass. “You need to know that the man on behalf of BAE Systems with whom I negotiated the sponsorship of our theatre, the BAE Systems Theatre, […]
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How the Australian War Memorial has lost its way
Australians do not “remember, interpret and understand the Australian experience of war”. Perhaps such an understanding in the case of the Frontier Wars might raise extremely uncomfortable questions about the implications for modern day Australia and our approach to warfare, or perhaps a focus on the Frontier Wars against the first people of Australia simply […]
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University of Melbourne, Victoria
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Margaret Beavis
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National Secretary - MAPW
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Dr Marcus Yip
Emergency Medicine Registrar
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Lobna Alukaidey
Medical Student
University of Melbourne, Victoria
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Dan Vinh Le
Medical Student
University of Melbourne, Victoria
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Margaret Beavis
General Practitioner
National Secretary - MAPW
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