Australia’s new prime minister is a TPNW champion
Posted: 26th May 2022
21 May 2022
Australia is set to embrace the goal of a nuclear-weapon-free world under its newly elected prime minister, Anthony Albanese, who has been a vocal supporter of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). His centre-left Australian Labor Party, which won the greatest number of seats in the lower house of the federal parliament at polls on 21 May, made a pre-election pledge to sign and ratify the landmark disarmament treaty. Such a move would make Australia the first country currently under the United States’ so-called “nuclear umbrella” to become a TPNW state party.