Senate debates

Thursday, 16 August 2007

Nuclear Weapons

9:59 am

Photo of Lyn AllisonLyn Allison (Victoria, Australian Democrats) Share this | | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—
(a)
notes that 14 August 2007 was the parliamentary launch of Securing our Survival (SOS): The Case for a Nuclear Weapons Convention, published by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons;
(b)
considers that a nuclear weapons convention would offer the international community the best way to prevent proliferation and nuclear terrorism and achieve disarmament; and
(c)
urges the Government to actively pursue multinational negotiations, leading to a nuclear weapons convention.

Question negatived.

I seek leave to table a copy of Securing our survival (SOS): the case for a nuclear weapons convention, which was released today in Parliament House.

Leave granted.

Photo of Christine MilneChristine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | | Hansard source

by leave—I wish to have it noted that the Australian Greens supported the motion.