Thank you Sue Ellery for adding your name to the ICAN Parliamentary Pledge to work for Australia to sign and ratify the #nuclearban 👏

Any current member of a state, territory or federal parliamentarian may sign the Pledge. It is open to parliamentarians from all countries.

'The number of deployed nuclear weapons is again rising, and 2000 are on high-alert status, ready to be launched within a few minutes,' writes Melissa Parke. 'The increasing use of a in the military makes accidents all the more likely.' satpa.pe/DRf8z8x

Melissa Parke on the increasingly real threat of nuclear annihilation:

 “We’re here today less by design than by the grace of luck. Sheer dumb luck,” wrote Peter Wyden. Luck is not a security strategy. satpa.pe/s9GlesP

Thank you Hon Dan Caddy MLC for adding your name to the ICAN Parliamentary Pledge to work for Australia to sign and ratify the #nuclearban 👏

Any current member of a state, territory or federal parliamentarian may sign the Pledge. It is open to parliamentarians from all countries.

The Albanese government has an opportunity to leave a powerful legacy and help secure the future of all life on Earth. To do so, Australia must step out from under the shadow of the nuclear umbrella and sign the TPNW.
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And that’s a wrap! We had a great team from ICAN Australia and ICAN international walking the halls of Parliament this week talking up the #nuclearban

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Melissa Parke
Tim Wright
Tilman Ruff AO
Dave Sweeney
Ray Acheson

Always great to catch up with you Susan Templeman MP - thanks for your continued work on promoting the #nuclearban and helping create a nuclear weapon-free world!

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It’s was great to catch up with Graham Perrett today. Thanks for your support and belief in the #nuclearban

It’s was great to catch up with Sharon Claydon this week. Thanks for your support and belief in the #nuclearban

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Great to see you Steve Georganas MP - thanks for your support and work promoting the #nuclearban !

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Great to catch up with you Ged Kearney - thanks for your continued work and support for the #nuclearban !

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It was good to meet with Anthony Albanese & Senator Penny Wong this week to discuss the #nuclearban . We hand-delivered a joint petition with Australian Conservation Foundation with 11,000 of your signatures urging the PM and the FM to keep their promise and join the ban.

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Happy to see my friends Nasser Mashni Nasser Mashni & Jordy Silverstein Silverstein in Plmt house Canberra. What is happening in Gaza is a legal and moral outrage. APAN Jen Robinson Prof Ben Saul - UN SR Human Rights & Counterterror Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt Antony Loewenstein Peter Slezak Irene Khan 💧Mary Kostakidis Australian Centre for International Justice

It’s time for Australia to join with our region and sign the #nuclearban Anthony Albanese

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We’re on the ground in Parliament House talking up the #nuclearban - it’s time to sign Anthony Albanese !!

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'Nuclear weapons are not just genocidal, they are suicidal.' - ICAN Australia

Australia must join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

Thank you Patrick Gorman MP for taking the time to discuss the #NuclearBan treaty in Canberra today.

We're here making sure that all Australian parliamentarians know that history is calling and that it's time to sign the #TPNW

We are here at Parliament House, Canberra, talking to Anthony Albanese & Senator Penny Wong and other MPs about Australia signing the #nuclearban - we are also delivering a joint petition to the PM with Australian Conservation Foundation that has 11,000 signatures urging him to keep his promise to sign the TPNW!

Australia is a “self-declared champion of the need to prevent nuclear proliferation. But it continues to ignore the need to take ‘effective measures in the direction of complete nuclear disarmament’.” - Marianne Hanson, ICAN Australia.
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Australian Conservation Foundation ICAN Australia 25/ ICAN Australia 'This is essentially unsafeguardable... it is unlikely that this precedent Australia would establish would not be followed by others.'