Why did Australia sign the Moon Treaty?
A decision made under electoral pressure in the 1980s has lasting consequences for policy in the present. Moonrise over the Pacific ocean at Narrawallee Beach, on the south coast of New South Wales in Australia, 6 June 2020 (David Gray/Getty Images) Published 24 May 2021 06:00 0 Comments International space law has again become a theatre of geopolitical competition. Unlike the bipolar space race of the Cold War era, a proliferating cast of countries and corporations are developing spacefaring...