Taranaki test site-and cleanup-area
(image source: Google Earth)

Still from 4-channel installation by Jessie Boylan and Linda Dement ‘Shift’

In conjunction with the exhibition Black Mist Burnt Country on display in the First Australians Galleries at the National Museum hosted a public forum under the title ‘Global security through nuclear weapons’.

The panel included

• the former Director General of the Australian Safeguards and Non-Proliferation Office (1989-2010) John Carlson,
• Professor Ramesh Thakur, Director of the Centre for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (CNND) in the Crawford School, Australian National University,
• Professor Richard Tanter, Senior Research Associate, Nautilus Institute, and Honorary Professor in the School of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Melbourne,
• NSW and ACT Executive Director of Australian Red Cross, Jody Broun,
• Austrian Ambassador to Australia Dr Bernhard Limburg and
• Dr Stephan Frühling, Associate Professor in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre of the Coral Bell School of Asia-Pacific Affairs, Australian National University.

The forum was moderated by Humphrey McQueen.

See the flyer with a detailed program and audio recordings of the sessions below.