Dave Sweeney

Nuclear free campaigner, Australian Conservation Foundation. Founding member of ICAN. Views are my own and follows/RT's don't always indicate favour.

[ICAN @nuclearban]

$69.2 BILLION. That's how much the United States spent on nuclear weapons in 2025, more than all the other nuclear-armed states combined. It also recorded the biggest year-on-year increase, adding another $12.4 billion.

Read the full report:
https://t.co/9amB5Nnz3r

#NuclearBan

[KellieTranter @KellieTranter]

'First Nations leader Karina Lester cites her father's painful survival of nuclear testing as a poignant reason for joining former Environment Minister Peter Garrett in a crowd-funded review of Australia's biggest defence deal, AUKUS.

"As a second-generation survivor of the 1953 British nuclear tests at Emu Field, I urge all our mobs who have been tested on, mined on, threatened with nuclear waste dumps or fear the impacts on our people, country and culture to find your voices and speak up strong in this public inquiry," Ms Lester, a proud Yankunytjatjara woman, said.'

#auspol #AUKUS

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[AWPR @WarPowersReform]

#aukus

Former environment minister Peter Garrett will lead an independent inquiry into the Aukus defence pact, launched by a group of Labor veterans and public figures concerned proper scrutiny has never been applied to the $368 billion plan.

https://t.co/YzdS2NMKK5

[Dave Sweeney @NukeDaveSweeney]

Please RSVP: Art Auction Fundraiser ⏳ 85 Seconds to Midnight https://t.co/tW21sNVDBP
A good crew - a good cause - and a critical time to grow creativity rather than radioactivity

[ICAN Australia @ican_australia]

ICAN's Jesse Boylan has written about Australia's embrace of US nuclear weapons operations on our soil for @DeclassifiedAus

[Dave Sweeney @NukeDaveSweeney]

Australia's biggest ever defence spend and growing nuclear risk deserves some overdue genuine scrutiny.
Thanks to #APSF for holding a spotlight to the second hand and second rate #AUKUS plan
https://t.co/SpqgShEvcJ

[Dave Sweeney @NukeDaveSweeney]

Substandard, suboptimal, submissive.....
Any way you cut it, #AUKUS doesn't.
https://t.co/BubFVExgXv
@LabAgainstWar @AustralianLabor @IPAusNet

[Dave Sweeney @NukeDaveSweeney]

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: https://t.co/FEYxJXGstW via @getup

[AWPR @WarPowersReform]

The budget for Australia’s contentious Aukus deal has ballooned by more than $430m over four years, with the agency charged with securing the country’s nuclear-powered submarines requiring a massive injection of funding and staffing. #Budget2026
https://t.co/Ahw0g8K3JB

[AWPR @WarPowersReform]

21 reasons to sink AUKUS before it sinks us
21 reasons to sink AUKUS before it sinks us
21 reasons to sink AUKUS before it sinks us

#auspol
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[Dave Sweeney @NukeDaveSweeney]

Chornobyl - from the pride of Soviet technology to a global disaster and a radioactive war and waste site.
40 years of heartache and hazard.
Nuclear - never safe.
The slideshow at the end of this piece is worth a look
https://t.co/LiZe9npKZ0

[ICAN Australia @ican_australia]

Ode to a Compassionate Warrior. On Anzac Day, journalist @Martin_Flanagan reflects on Tom Uren's life and legacy.

https://t.co/eZQGep25ZU

#anzac #albanese #TomUren #nagasaki #POW #thaiburmarailway #nuclearban

[KellieTranter @KellieTranter]

You know it's budget time in Australia when politicians and insiders talk about a program that assists some of the most vulnerable people in the Australian community as being financially unsustainable but at the same time defence spending is increasing at record levels and we're already paying $500 billion ++ for the possibility that we'll get a couple of subs 15-20 years from now.

#auspol #NDIS #federalbudget #priorities

[Dave Sweeney @NukeDaveSweeney]

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[Dave Sweeney @NukeDaveSweeney]

When it comes to nuclear weapons, Australians have a right to know – and a right to say No. https://t.co/CkwyI44Wa7 via @getup

[AWPR @WarPowersReform]

We're proud to stand with 150+ Australian and Pacific civil society organisations in signing the No Nuclear Weapons in Australia Declaration. https://t.co/vhrin0B7xX

#auspol @ican_australia

[Dave Sweeney @NukeDaveSweeney]

28 years ago today people from around Australia headed to #Kakadu to blockade a planned new #uranium mine at #Jabiluka.
The short story is the mine was stopped and people power defeated #nuclear power.
Great respect to the #Mirarr Traditional Owners and to all who heard and acted

[IndependentAustralia @independentaus]

Three years ago, Anthony Albanese signed Australia up to quite possibly the worst deal in our history.
AUKUS ties nuclear anchor around Australia's neck https://t.co/Ho7vHsUbDl via @IndependentAus @NukeDaveSweeney

[Dave Sweeney @NukeDaveSweeney]

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[Dave Sweeney @NukeDaveSweeney]

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Hold the presses: #nuclear power is expensive and slow
#Renewable, not #radioactive