Australia is a stable, democratic and culturally diverse nation with a highly skilled workforce and one of the strongest performing economies in the world.
Australia consistently and strongly condemns the use of chemical weapons by anyone, anywhere, under any circumstances. Australia's commitment to the eradication of chemical weapons is founded in the memory of the many casualties of chemical weapons used on the battlefields of Europe in the First World War.
The CWC is the only international treaty with a system of verification to ban comprehensively an entire category of weapons of mass destruction. It is the principal international instrument for addressing the threat posed by chemical weapons.
All of Australia's uranium is exported for exclusively peaceful purposes, and only to countries and parties with which Australia has a bilateral nuclear cooperation (safeguards) agreement. These agreements ensure that Australia's nuclear exports are handled in a manner consistent with Australia's uranium export policy.
Australia's uranium export policy acknowledges the strategic significance which distinguishes uranium from other energy commodities. Australian policy has consistently recognised that special arrangements need to be put in place to distinguish between the civil and military applications of nuclear energy.
Australia is a long-standing global leader of the Women, Peace and Security agenda. Australia advocates, supports and undertakes actions across the four pillars of participation, conflict prevention, protection of rights, and relief and recovery.
The purpose of the Framework for Civil Society-Government Engagement is to ensure that civil society and government meaningfully engage in Australia’s efforts to advance the WPS agenda, drawing on the wide-ranging skills and expertise of each on relevant issues and contexts, including the pursuit of the second Australian National Action Plan on WPS 2021-2031.
