12 October 2007: This website is under construction, please check back in a couple of weeks.

In the meantime here is some info on the APDSex

 

In the sleazy world of weapons trading problems are generally seen as business opportunities.

Alex Nicholl, the man behind the largest arms fairs in the world, DSEi in London, must have pondered his future for all of 30 seconds after his employers, Reed Publishing recently dumped his whole division after the public outcry over their profiteering from misery & destruction.

But Alex is a man with a vision and he was quick to set up shop on his own and set his sights on Australia. As Alex puts it in his Press Release:

	2. Asia-Pacific and Australia – key facts about the growth markets • 1994 – 2006 only region with increase in defence expenditure as percentage of GDP • Forecast to overtake Europe and Middle East as the largest defence market • A$131 billion (US$104 billion) of defence projects scheduled in the next decade • Australia spending A$31 billion (US$25 billion) over the next 10 years
In salivating over the opportunity of making a few bucks over the fact that our region will soon be squandering more money than anywhere in the world on weapons, he was joined by the Premier of South Australia, Mike Rann, who has issued his own statement about APDSex:
	"The city of Adelaide – the dynamic and undisputed centre of the booming Australian defence industry – will be the place to be in November 2008.... I urge you to visit the Asia Pacific Defence and Security Exhibition in 2008 – both to see the latest and best from our Asia Pacific region, and to survey the terrific business and investment opportunities now opening up in South Australia"
Alec Gilbert, Executive Officer of the Adelaide Convention Centre who according to Alex Nicholl put in a strong bid for APDSex, added to the chorus of greetings:
	"Now this is the first time Asia Pacific Defence and Security has held its international exhibition in Australia...It is fitting it is being held in Australia's defence capital"
But we shouldn't forget, this exhibition is about selling weapons. The people exhibiting at this exhibition and those promoting it are little more than sleazy gun runners, profiting from and promoting the ravages of war. The Exhibition will be held, ironically enough, from 11 November 2008 at the Adelaide Exhibition Centre, between North Terrace and the Torrens.