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Nuclear Tests Case (Australia v. France) Australia France: 9 May 1973 [119] 20 December 1974 [120] Judgment on Jurisdiction 59: Nuclear Tests Case (New Zealand v. France) New Zealand: 60: Trial of Pakistani Prisoners of War Pakistan India: 11 May 1973 [121] 15 December 1973 [122] Discontinued 61: Western Sahara: United Nations General Assembly ...
France began testing nuclear weapons in 1966 on Mururoa Atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago of French Polynesia.In 1985, the South Pacific nations of Australia, the Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu signed the Treaty of Rarotonga declaring the region a nuclear-free zone.
Community inspired anti-nuclear sentiments largely contributed to the New Zealand Labour Party election victory under Norman Kirk in 1972. In June 1973, the International Court of Justice (pursuant to a case launched by Australia and New Zealand) ordered that the French cease atmospheric nuclear testing at Mururoa atoll while the case was being heard by the Court. [22]
Nuclear weapons testing, uranium mining and export, and nuclear power have often been the subject of public debate in Australia, and the anti-nuclear movement in Australia has a long history. Its origins date back to the 1972–1973 debate over French nuclear testing in the Pacific and the 1976–1977 debate about uranium mining in Australia .
These include Britain, Australia and the Bomb, Maralinga: Australia's Nuclear Waste Cover-up and My Australian Story: Atomic Testing: The Diary of Anthony Brown, Woomera, 1953. In 2006 Wakefield Press published Beyond belief: the British bomb tests: Australia's veterans speak out by Roger Cross and veteran and whistleblower, Avon Hudson.
Nuclear Tests Case (Australia v. France) Australia v. France: 20 December 1974 59: Contentious: Nuclear Tests Case (New Zealand v. France) New Zealand v. France: 20 December 1974 61: Advisory: Western Sahara: 16 October 1975 62: Contentious: Aegean Sea Continental Shelf Case Greece v. Turkey: 19 December 1978 64: Contentious
In July 2008 there were a series of accidents at the French nuclear site Tricastin-Pierrelatte, and Greenpeace France launched two court cases in an effort to find out more details about these. [21] In August 2008, Sortir du nucléaire called Areva 's radioactive emissions 'very dangerous' and sought an official safety inspection of its factories.
Australia and France have also cooperated at various levels in the coalition against terrorism, including as founding members of the Proliferation Security Initiative to combat the trafficking in weapons of mass destruction. In 2008, it was announced that France and Australia would strengthen their defence cooperation further in the Pacific region.