Pacific Peace Network

Pacific Peace Network

Australia is a country geographically placed in the South Asia Pacific region of the world. First Nations Peoples have lived and cared for the land for over 60 thousand years. Europeans began to arrive with the British first fleet and now Australia has over 25 million people from across the world sharing this land with the original peoples. The SEA and Pacific have known war and war preparations for many years but most intensively during the 2nd World War — the Pacific War is where nuclear weapons were first used as an act of war in Japan. Following WW2 the Pacific was used to test nuclear weapons leading to terrible contamination of people and lands across the Pacific including remote Aboriginal lands in Australia.

Today we see the arms race and militarisation of countries around the world and in the Western Pacific including Australia where US military forces and capacity to go to war are now expanding.

The Pacific Peace Network formed in 2019 stands on the shoulders of the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific organisation formed during the 1970s to oppose the nuclear tests. Representatives from Guahan, Jeju, ROK, Japan, Okinawa, Northern Marianas, Vanuatu, Philippines, Hawaii, USA, Australia and New Zealand have held a range of events and actions over the past years focused on military activity and exercises rehearsing for war.