treaties

As it stands, Australia is one of the only Commonwealth countries to have never signed a treaty, or treaties, with its first inhabitants, or to have recognised them in its founding document.

Sometimes treaties are signed and guns go quiet for a while, but too often the conflict doesn’t really end.

“That does bring with it an intensifying need for updating global treaties and strategies around maintaining a peaceful and manageable space environment,” she adds.

Among crucial steps, it’s long past time to restore three treaties that the United States abrogated — ABM, Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces and Open Skies.

In addition to such broad governance, the U.N. also hosts treaties that are meant to regulate sea, space and the climate.