Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for International Development and the Pacific) Share this | Hansard source

The Nobel Peace Prize is a singular honour. The Australian government shares with the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons the goal of a world free of nuclear weapons. However, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons risks undermining the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty of Nuclear Weapons by creating competing obligations. It has nonproliferation safeguard standards weaker than those established under the NPT, and it is vague or silent on verification and enforcement. Australia strongly supports more practical measures for nuclear disarmament, including a fissile material cut-off treaty, the entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty and further developing verification processes.