http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/tim-wright/ Tim Wright is the Australian director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. He coordinated the campaign’s global strategy from New York leading up to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference of 2010. He has worked with A-bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Nobel Peace Prize winners in building worldwide momentum for a nuclear weapons ban. He has degrees in arts and law from Melbourne University. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Political-retirement-village-built-on-nuclear-weapons/ Early this year, with minimal fuss, the government-owned Future Fund made a principled choice to divest taxpayers’ dollars from companies that produce cluster bombs and land mines – pernicious devices that kill and maim long after a conflict has ended. Their victims, overwhelmingly, are civilians. Based on this decision, one might assume that the fund – which was set up in 2006 to cover the pension costs of retiring politicians, judges and public servants – has also excluded nuclear weapon companies. After all, these have grave humanitarian consequences too. But not so. Documents obtained by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons in May revealed that the Future Fund owns $135 million worth of stocks in 15 companies that build nuclear arms for the United States, Britain, France and India. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tim Wright) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Political-retirement-village-built-on-nuclear-weapons/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Political-retirement-village-built-on-nuclear-weapons/#item7130 Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:40:21 +0000 Tim Wright | Author bios | The Punch