Support the UN treaty to ban nuclear weapons!

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More than 70 years after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the international community is on the threshold of outlawing nuclear weapons. As a campaign, we know that we have the power to influence our governments and help shape history.

At the United Nations this year, more than 130 countries are negotiating a treaty to ban nuclear weapons. Australia, regrettably, is boycotting these historic talks. Our Government claims that while nuclear weapons exist, Australia must rely on them for our security.

Nuclear weapons are not a tool for security, they are instruments of mass murder. The 15,000 nuclear weapons ...

More than 70 years after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the international community is on the threshold of outlawing nuclear weapons. As a campaign, we know that we have the power to influence our governments and help shape history.

At the United Nations this year, more than 130 countries are negotiating a treaty to ban nuclear weapons. Australia, regrettably, is boycotting these historic talks. Our Government claims that while nuclear weapons exist, Australia must rely on them for our security.

Nuclear weapons are not a tool for security, they are instruments of mass murder. The 15,000 nuclear weapons that still exist pose an existential threat, and must be abolished. Help us convince our federal parliamentarians to support this landmark treaty. We know that hearing from you will help.

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This year at the United Nations, more than 130 of the world’s governments are negotiating a treaty to outlaw nuclear weapons. But Australia is boycotting the process. We need you to write to your federal parliamentarians to tell them that this is unacceptable, and to urge them to support this crucial UN initiative. Eliminating the ultimate weapons of mass destruction is an urgent humanitarian imperative.

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As you may know, the United Nations is negotiating a treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons this year. More than 130 nations are working together to write a new legal instrument, but Australia is not among them. Instead of participating in the negotiations, the Government has chosen just to watch the UN webcast.

Banning nuclear weapons is a humanitarian imperative. The 15,000 nuclear weapons that are held between nine countries pose an unacceptable threat to our existence. Far from having gone away, the problem has become more acute with rising international tensions.

According to an Ipsos poll in March, three in four Australians want the government to take part in the negotiations. Australia has signed on to the treaties that ban biological and chemical weapons, antipersonnel mines and cluster munitions; now we have the opportunity to prohibit the most devastating weapon ever invented.

I urge you to do everything you can to raise this issue in Parliament and make sure Australia supports the UN treaty to ban nuclear weapons.

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