Is anyone else thinking about the intro to Lord Of War right now? Here’s a refresher:
Malcom Turnbull this week unveiled his Defence Export Strategy, a proposal that aims to put Australia in the top 10 of global arms dealers within the next decade.
Aid groups, international charities, and The Greens reacted in disbelief, calling any initiative to make money from weapons essentially an attempt to bank blood money.
The controversial plan’s been anticipated since mid-2017, when Christopher Pyne, the defence industry minister, said he wanted to start selling far more high-quality, Australian made weapons overseas.
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Today the Government launched the Defence Export Strategy, setting out the policy and strategy to make Australia one of the top ten global defence exporters within the next decade. Read the Strategy ➡️ https://t.co/yKwPPsFnsN #auspol #ausdef pic.twitter.com/kD8Wobvjv7
— Christopher Pyne (@cpyne) January 28, 2018
Nothing like a spoonful of bad infomercial beats and tangerine gradients to make the medicine go down.
Pyne Identified a number of ‘priority markets’, including the Middle East, the Indo-Pacific region, Europe, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand.
So, yeah. Essentially everywhere.
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Could all of this be tied to Lindsay Lohan’s island in Dubai?
Prolly.
