The Asia Pacific Defence & Security Exhibition (APDSE) is an international arms fair scheduled to be held in Adelaide, Australia in November 2008.
Remember when it would have been strange to hear a Federal Australian ALP Minister congratulate a foreign multinational for buying out an Australian company? Maybe I'm getting too old.
Swinburne University Press Release 24 June 2008
From the 12th to the 19th of June the peace action camp Disarm08 took place in Karlskoga, the heart of the Swedish weapons industry.
Between Monday (16 June 16) and Friday (20), during a huge supermaket of death in Paris named Eurosatory, nonviolent activists tried to bring attention to this war profiteering business.
Today, 24 June 2008, the Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Procurement, Greg Combet, addressed a Australian Industry and Defence Network Lunch in Canberra.
from The Australian 21 June 2008
There has as yet been no list made available as to who will be exhibiting at the APDSE, but we have got a copy of their floor plan which has some names on it.
These include:
National Public Radio June 10 2008
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91332402
Independent On-Line 3 June 2008
Reuters June 9 2008
eluniversal 27May 2008
Associated Press 23 May
Daily Times Lahore 19 may 2008
Reuters 13 May
By Richard Cowan