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Tim Wright

Tim Wright is Asia-Pacific director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Ican), a global coalition of non-government organisations, winner of the Nobel peace prize for 2017

October 2017

  • Tim Wright addresses the media at the Victorian Trades Hall Council in Melbourne on 7 October 2017.

    double quotation markWill our Nobel peace prize convince Australia to give up nuclear weapons?

    Tim Wright
    The government is recklessly undermining our security by promoting nuclear weapons as rightful defence instruments

May 2016

  • Barack Obama before the working dinner during the Group of Seven summit Shima, Mie, Japan

    double quotation markHope and hype of Hiroshima can’t conceal Obama’s dismal record on nuclear disarmament

    Tim Wright
    Australia must stop defending the possession of nuclear weapons simply out of deference to its ally