HUNTER PEACE GROUP

 Hunter Peace Group    will be commemorating the 80th anniversaries of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the Tighes Hill Peace Park on Saturday 9th August 2025 11 - 2pm.

In our Website we have written quite a bit about Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the horrors the people in these cities suffered when the first ever atomic bombs were stealthily dropped by the USA.

Back in 2017 ICAN was successful in getting the UN Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons through the United Nations and this then went out for signature or ratification or both to countries across the world.

At the time ICAN along with Hunter Peace Group and other peace groups in Australia called on the Australian Government to sign/ratify this Treaty and when election time came around in 2019 the Australian Labor Party (Federally), said they would sign after checking out some points.        Since that time the Federal Government has not signed.   Many of the Parliamentarians signed the Pledge sent to them by ICAN and followed up by individual peace groups which was wonderful as many parliamentarians signed this document - but so far to no avail - our Federal ALP Government has not kept that promise.  

Hunter Peace Group, in this 80th anniversary year of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, is calling on the Albanese Government to keep the promise it made in 2019 in opposition and again once it came to power to sign the UN Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons - or better still - ratify it. It is time.