Message for Foreign Minister Julie Bishop MP A historic global agreement was reached at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Friday, July 7, 2017 when 122 nations adopted a treaty to ban nuclear weapons. Known officially as the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, it will acquire legal force once 50 nations have signed and ratified it.…
Lecture topic: Make Australia Great Again or Make the Planet Great Again? Is it one or the other, or both, or neither? Speaker: A talk and discussion with Emeritus Professor Joseph Camilleri. When: Monday 14 August, 5.00pm - 7.00pm Where: Carslaw Lecture Room 179, University of Sydney. Organised by: Jointly presented by the University of Sydney’s Department of Peace and…
The following speech was given by Maggie Galley at the Women's March to Ban the Bomb in Parramatta Park on 17 July 2017 Good afternoon - I would like to acknowledge that we are on Aboriginal land: always was, always will be. I am here because I am a mother and grandmother and I hate the war industry with all…
The article reproduced below is about the one hundred days of continuous protest by families of the disappeared in Kilinochchi in Sri Lanka. It was published in The Sunday Leader on 8 April 2017. Tuesday, 30 May 2017 marked one hundred days of continuous protest by families of the disappeared in Kilinochchi in Sri Lanka. Around 1000 protesters from across the Northern…
Reflection notes from Fr Claude Mostowik msc Tuesday 25 April 2017 - Richardson’s Lookout – Marrickville Peace Park Listening to the news, it would seem that religion is more often used as a pretext for violence than peace. But, the Scriptures and our faith traditions contain a strong mandate for compassion and peace. Together they offer a radical reshaping of human…