The UN treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons was adopted in 2017 and is an international agreement that bans the weapons, with the ultimate goal of totally eliminating them.Signatories are prohibited from participating in any nuclear weapon activities, which includes not developing, testing, producing, acquiring, possessing, stockpiling, using or threatening to use them.The treaty entered into force in January, 2021, and notable signatories that ratified the treaty include New Zealand, Fiji, Ireland and Bangladesh. Australia had previously voted no over the last five years under the Coalition government, along with world superpowers like the US, the UK, Russia, China and India.However on Saturday morning local time, Australia abstained from voting on an annual resolution on the treaty at the UN in New York.The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Australia) welcomed the move, calling it an “important step forward”.“Australia has formally ended five years of opposit