Tag: AUKUS

Conference

Denis Doherty

80 years of Hiroshima and Nagasaki –
89 seconds to midnight

In person conference

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https://events.humanitix.com/80-years-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-89-seconds-to-midnight

August 10 Sunday 4 pm- 6 pm

NSW Teachers Federation Auditorium

37 Reservoir St, Surry Hills

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Speakers

Ruth Mitchell

Ruth Mitchell is a neurosurgeon at Sydney Children’s Hospital and Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, NSW. She is currently Chair of the Board of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW). She also chairs the board of the Ubuntu Lab, an emerging museum of the humanities. Recently awarded the 2022 Convocation Medal by her alma mater, Flinders University, for her work with ICAN, she was also the 2019 winner of the John Corboy Medal from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons for her advocacy for diversity and inclusion in surgery, and was the inaugural Australian Medical Association Doctor in Training of the Year in 2016. She has previously served as Co-Chair of the ICAN Australia Board, and Vice President of the Medical Association for the Prevention of War.

Dr Vince Scappatura

Dr Vince Scappatura is currently Sessional Academic in the School of International Studies at Macquarie University. He has a PhD in International Relations and is author of The US Lobby and Australian Defence Policy. He is currently working on the Nuclear-Capable B-52H Stratoforterss Bombers Project for the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainabillity. A compilation of his recent publications can be found at https://mq.academia.edu/VinceScappatura

Tom Unterrainer

Tom is the chair of the UK Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). His role in the country (the UK) which will be building the next generation of AUKUS submarines which will eventually arrive in this country around 2040’s or 2050’s is extremely important to us. We want to forge a relationship with people in the UK who oppose this AUKUS madness. We want the peoples of both our countries to see that spending the huge sums on submarines will make both countries not more secure but poorer with huge social problems.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki Statement 2024

Denis Doherty

We are here to remember that on August 6 and 9, 1945, 79 years ago, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Almost 200,000 men, women and children were killed instantly and many thousands more died later of burns or radiation sickness. 

We are here to remember those who died in this horrific event and to remember all victims of nuclear war preparations including those who lived on Pacific Islands and our own first nations people who died during British testing. 

Since that terrible event, France, Britian, China, Russia, India, Pakistan, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and Israel have acquired nuclear weapons. 

We say that no country should ever have nuclear weapons.

Civil Society has pushed back against nuclear weapons and an organisation founded in Melbourne – the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons ICAN – has successfully got the UN to pass the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.  So far 70 States have ratified this treaty.

We demand that the Australian Government ratify the UN treaty to ban Nuclear Weapons, reject the AUKUS nuclear powered submarines and reject the Opposition’s proposal for nuclear power reactors on 7 sites. 

Australia is supporting wars and preparing for war instead of concentrating on solving the social issues in Australia and the region.

There are no victors or vanquished in a nuclear war.

Today we solemnly vow to do everything we can to make sure that Hiroshima and Nagasaki never happen again.