CLUSTER BOMBS

RELATED DOCUMENTS Cluster Munitions (Prohibition) Bill 2006 [pdf] Issue Sheet on cluster bombs [pdf] Senator Lyn Allison's report on her recent visit to Lebanon [pdf] RELATED CAMPAIGNS Say NO to expanding nuclear industry in Australia Cluster bombs: Indiscriminate killers Sustainable energy How to stop the next war Lebanon

CLUSTER BOMBS: Indiscriminate Killers Cluster bombs are large bombs that disperse smaller bombs — known as “bomblets” or sub-munitions — over wide areas, threatening civilians as well as soldiers during attacks. They leave unexploded bombs that threaten civilians for decades after a conflict. Their effects are indiscriminate and they are proliferating rapidly around the world - they were used recently in Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan. Senator Lyn Allison initiated a Private Senator's Bill to ban Australia's use, construction and stockpiling of cluster bombs. The Cluster Munitions (Prohibition) Bill 2006 was tabled on December 5, 2006 by Senators Lyn Allison, Andrew Bartlett, Mark Bishop and Bob Brown. Documents relating to the Cluster Munitions (Prohibition) Bill 2006 Read the Bill [pdf] Read the Explanatory Memorandum related to the Bill [pdf] Read Senator Allison's Second Reading of the Bill Read the Media Release announcing the Bill Senator Lyn Allison with the mock cluster bomb she dropped on Parliament House The Democrats believe that the Australian Government should: > Support Senator Allison's Cluster Munitions (Prohibition) Bill 2006, which would prevent Australia from possessing, constructing or using cluster munitions > Support the Norwegian initiative of an international treaty to ban cluster munitions > Condemn Israel's use of cluster munitions in Lebanon and the United States' use of cluster munitions in Afghanistan and Iraq Download our Issue Sheet on banning cluster bombs for more information. Democrats Action in the Senate QUESTION ON NOTICE: Cluster Bombs follow up - Senator Lyn Allison, 12 December 2006 QUESTION ON NOTICE: Defence exports - Senator Lyn Allison, 12  December 2006 SECOND READING: Cluster Munitions (Prohibition) Bill 2006 - Senator Lyn Allison, 5  December 2006 ADJOURNMENT SPEECH: Cluster Bombs - Senator Lyn Allison, 4  December 2006 MATTERS OF PUBLIC INTEREST: Lebanon - Senator Lyn Allison, 8 November 2006 QUESTIONS ON NOTICE (with answer): Cluster Bombs - Senator Lyn Allison, 3 November 2006 MOTION: Conflict in Israel and Lebanon - Senator Lyn Allison, 6 September 2006 ADJOURNMENT SPEECH: Middle East - Senator Lyn Allison, 10 August 2006 What others say Defence given green light to use cluster bombs - Sarah Smiles, The Age, 1 June 2007 Defence Force seeks deadly cluster bombs - Tom Hyland, The Age, 20 May 2007 Explosive Investments - Netwerk Vlaanderen research on the financing of six cluster munition producers, February 2007 Of note - ANZ is named three times as part of different consortia financing organisations involved the manufacturing of bombs.