ONLINE EVENT
'Maralinga Pieces' Film: Understanding the humanitarian impacts of nuclear weapons
When: Monday 6 March 2023 6:00 - 7:15 pm AEDT
Nuclear weapons are the most destructive, inhumane and indiscriminate weapons ever created. Both in the scale of the devastation they cause, and in the ongoing health and environmental effects of radioactive fallout. They are unlike any other weapons; a single nuclear bomb detonated over a large city could kill millions of people.
Do you want to do more to raise awareness of the humanitarian impacts of nuclear weapons?
Join ICAN next week for their first Nuclear Weapon Ban Advocate meet-up of 2023 for a special film screening and discussion!
Seventy years ago, the British government, with agreement from the Australian government of the day, began a regime of nuclear weapons testing in Western Australia's Monte Bello islands, and at Emu Field and Maralinga in South Australia. These tests caused fallout that spread over much of the Australian mainland and further into the Pacific, where communities continue to feel the impacts to this day.
Along with banning nuclear weapons, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) creates a framework of solidarity to offer assistance to all victims of nuclear weapons use and testing, as well as environmental remediation in all places where these weapons have been used.
ICAN will be screening the short film ‘Maralinga Pieces’ at this first meet-ups.
Directed by ICAN Australia's new Media and Communication Advisor, Jesse Boylan, this short film portrays snippets of memories of of Anangu elders who remember witnessing the tests in the 1950s, alongside recollections from Australian atomic veteran, Avon Hudson, who worked at Maralinga as a young RAAF serviceman, and went on to become a nuclear whistleblower.
