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May 8, 2020 5.54am AEST   Paul Strangio ,  Monash University Fifty years ago this month, hundreds of thousands of Australians assembled across the country to call for an end to the Vietnam War. The first of the moratorium campaigns, the demonstrations of May 8 1970 were the zenith of the anti-war movement in Australia that had been five years in the making. The largest of the May 8 marches took place in Melbourne, confirming its status as the national capital of protest politics. An estimated 100,000 demonstrators clogged the city’s streets. Despite scaremongering in preceding weeks by conservative politicians and large sections of the media about the threat of violence and mayhem, the event passed peacefully. Relieved and exultant, the movement’s leader, Jim Cairns,  told the sea of protesters  gathered in Bourke Street: Nobody thought this could be done … The will of the people is being expressed today as it never has been before. The moratorium movement was important in a number of

Atomic agency cites concerns over Iran testing sites, offers COVID-19 assistance IAEA/Dean Calma IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi delivers his remarks at the opening of the International Conference on Nuclear Security ICONS 2020.         9 March 2020 Peace and Security Iran’s nuclear capabilities moved back into the international spotlight on Monday as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that it had concerns about possible “undeclared nuclear material and nuclear-related activities” in unregistered locations there. The development follows Iran’s declaration on 5 January that its nuclear programme would no longer be “subject to any restrictions in the operational sphere”, in response to the decision of the United States in 2018 to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal and reimpose sanctions. In an appeal to Iran to cooperate with the UN nuclear watchdog,  IAEA  Director General, Rafael Mariano Gro