Labor Government Urged to Sign UN Treaty Banning Nukes

Signatories are prohibited from developing, testing, producing, acquiring, possessing, stockpiling, using, or threatening to use nuclear weapons.

(L-R) Nuclear veteran survivors Douglas Brooks, Yankunytjatjara woman Karina Lester, Labor member for Freemantle Josh Wilson, Yankunytjatjara woman June Lennon, Greens Senator Jordon Steele-John, Maxine Goodwin and Liberal member for Monash Russell Broadbent during a press conference by Australian atomic survivors urging the signing of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) at Parliament House in Canberra on Nov. 10, 2020. AAP Image/Mick Tsikas

The Albanese Labor government is under mounting pressure to live up to an election promise and sign a United Nations treaty banning nuclear weapons.

A group of independent parliamentarians including David Pocock, Allegra Spender, Helen Haines, Andrew Wilkie, and Zali Steggall have called on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to honour Labor’s promise to sign the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPWN).