Asia Pacific Defence & Security Exhibition

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

Independent On-Line 20 may 2008

By Jim Wolf

Associated Press 23 May

Daily Times Lahore 19 may 2008

Reuters 13 May

By Richard Cowan