Demonstration, April 3rd, 2012: The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) staged a street protest at the Future Fund’s headquarters in Melbourne to call on the fund’s new chair David Gonski to stop investing in nuclear weapons companies.

As of January this year, the Future Fund held shares worth more than $133 million in 14 foreign-owned companies involved in the US, British, French and Indian nuclear weapons programs, according to research by ICAN. Read more »

Petition, March, 2012: The Australian Government says at the United Nations that it's committed to achieving a world free from nuclear weapons. However, by investing in nuclear weapons companies, it is undermining that objective and contributing to the build-up of nuclear forces.

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Australia, March, 2012: The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) welcomes the Parliament’s adoption this morning of a motion affirming “its support for the goal of a world free of nuclear weapons”. In a show of bipartisan support for the cause of disarmament, the Prime Minister and Opposition leader each spoke in favour of the motion. Read more »

Campaign, 26 January, 2012: This Australia Day 706 prominent Order of Australia recipients have stepped forward as "Australians for a Nuclear Weapons Convention" calling on the Australian government to support international efforts to achieve a nuclear weapons treaty and to adopt a nuclear-weapon-free defence posture. Read more »

James Norman, December 2011:  In stating support for Australia to open up uranium sales to India, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has not only opened up a toxic can of worms inside her own party, she has also set herself on a perilous collision course that threatens to undermine Australia's non-proliferation credibility and our international treaty obligations. Read more »