The International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, and the issues surrounding a land rights dispute in Victoria

26 September was the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, an important opportunity for individuals and organisations across the world to support the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, calling on our national governments to sign and ratify it.Also a brief history of the issues surrounding a land rights dispute in Victoria.The current struggle of the Djab Wurrung people for recognition of a cultural site outside Ararat in Western Victoria shows the limitations of Aboriginal representation in the existing state bodies. In opposition to the duplication of the Western Highway the Djab Wurrung have occupied the proposed works site to protect what they assert are birthing trees, directions trees and a canoe tree, all of which exist on an area of culturally significant landscape.