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Labor abstains from nuclear weapons treaty

1 November 2022

1:17 PM

1 November 2022

1:17 PM

The big news this week on the nuclear front was not the announcement of a reactor to save Australia from the brewing energy crisis, it was the headline that Labor’s Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong has ‘abstained’ from voting on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons at the UN in New York.

This is apparently a ‘huge change’ from voting ‘no’.

Not really.

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