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We ask National Coordinator of Australia Campaign to Stop Killer Robots Matilda Byrne about the situation in our country; the government and defence position, development, the university sector, tech industry and more
Mary Wareham from Human rights Watch Arms Division and coordinator of the 'Campaign to Stop Killer Robots' gives an all you need to know overview of the issue the campaign and how we achieve a ban treaty.
On 1 July Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Australia’s 2020 Defence Strategic Update which he described as a response to a “poorer, more dangerous world”. The Defence Strategic Update outlined expenditure for increased defence capabilities totalling $270 billion over the next 10 years. The aggressive strategy centres around ‘shaping...
Book cover of SafeGround's "In Search of Safe Ground - ERW in the Pacific". In 2014 SafeGround started researching the Pacific WW2 Explosive Legacy. Since then team members have done extensive desk and field research. Please see the In Search of Safe Ground - ERW in the Pacific. This book was released at the...
While the idea of ‘killer robots’ or lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS) that may select and engage targets without meaningful human control may sound like science-fiction, the development of these LAWS are actually closer to reality than we may believe. Just last year, prominent figures such as Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak and...
Although World War 2 ended over 70 years ago, many communities in what was the Pacific area of operations are still living with dangerous legacies of left over bombs and explosives. Safe Ground researchers have already contributed a considerable amount of research and outreach to areas affected in the Pacific with field work in the Solomon...
On the 50th anniversary of the agreement and opening of the Pine Gap joint military base between Australia and the US, the Independent Peaceful Australia Network held a bringing together many organisations, groups, and activists committed to peace. The conference took place in Alice Springs, some 18kms from Pine Gap. During a public forum and...
On Monday November 21 I attended the ICAN roundtable focusing on the banning of nuclear weapons by Pacific Islands nations. In addition to those of us physically present a number of people joined the meeting via Skype, enabling representation from the Marshall islands, Indonesia, Fiji and New Zealand. In this meeting we received an ICAN campaign...
Read our press release on the 6th Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions and Australia's treaty obligations.