Austrade: Promoting the Lucrative Business of Arms Dealing?

Arms dealing is an issue that’s usually associated with Somalian pirates and Mexican drug cartels… but what if it was happening here? What if, in our own backyard, seminars were being run on the best way to exploit military and civil unrest for economic gain? What if our own government was facilitating the sale of weapons to potentially volatile countries? What if the whole process was cloaked in a veil of secrecy so thick even our own elected Parliamentarians can’t access it? Bridget Backhaus investigates Australia’s latest ‘economic opportunities’.