Randwick City Council will financially support the international anti-nuclear weapons campaign via the “Mayors for Peace 2020 Vision Campaign".
2010 marks sixty five years since the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which took hundreds of thousands of lives.
Ever since the two Japanese cities have continually told the world about the inhumane cruelty of nuclear weapons and urged that they be abolished.
On 24 June 1982, at the 2nd UN Special Session on Disarmament, then Mayor Takeshi Araki of Hiroshima proposed a new Program to Promote the Solidarity of Cities toward the Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons.
Randwick City Greens Mayor Matson says that the organization has reached the point where it now needs to ask its member cities for consistent funding.
He said,
"Managing an organisation of this size has become extremely challenging. Up until now the campaign has relied upon donations from member cities.
However in order to continue the push for complete nuclear disarmament, the Mayors for Peace organisation has had to request contributions direct from all member cities, with a commitment to continue these annual contributions up until the target year of 2020."