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2 pages ; 21 cm
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The Hiroshima Day Committee organises events throughout Australia to commemorate the lives lost to the atomic bombs dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 6 and 9 August 1945 respectively. The committee strives towards the global abolishment of nuclear weapons. They hold a zero-tolerance stance towards nuclear weapons and argue for the Australian Government to ratify the UN treaty to ban them. The committee's first rally and march was held in Sydney on 9 August 1962.
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Flyer advertising a rally and march to commemorate Hiroshima Day on Sunday 5 August 1990 at Musgrave Park, Brisbane (and a closing ceremony at King George Square, Brisbane). Includes illustrations and a five stanza poem titled 'The dead little girl of Hiroshima' written by Nazim Hikmet. States 'Rally for peace and nuclear disarmament, Box 110, Paddington, 4064'.
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- English
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Created, KM, 19-Dec-2024.