Sydney-based activist organisation Palestine Action Group will host a mass blockade against Sydney’s Indo-Pacific weapons exposition on Tuesday, November 4th.
From 4–6th of November 2025, the NSW Government is sponsoring the Indo-Pacific International Maritime Exposition at Sydney’s International Convention Centre (ICC).
The massive weapons trade show will showcase arms dealers’ products and sales. National activist group, Students for Palestine, are also involved in the blockade.
Israeli and other weapons companies, such as BAE Systems, Thales, and Raytheon, will feature at the event and advertise products. Such companies have enabled and profited from the last two years of genocide in Gaza, killing at least 68,000 Palestinians, including 20,000 children.
Western Sydney University students have a responsibility to show up. Western has ties with weapons companies such as BAE Systems through an active partnership with its International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems.
Neuromorphic sensors are an advanced technology that attempts to mimic biological efficiency, and according to Raytheon, ‘revolutionise how intelligent sensors are deployed on the battlefield.’ This means Western research may contribute to state-of-the-art technology enabling Israel’s slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza.
What is progressive or innovative about developing advanced technology to enable weapons companies to commit genocide? We refuse to be complicit, and our university should fund research for education, humanity and the social good, not for profit and war.
We can’t let war criminal companies like Thales, BAE Systems and Raytheon peacefully advertise their weapons in Sydney, after denying peace for Palestinians. The temporary ceasefire has not brought justice or liberation to Palestine. We need to keep fighting to free Palestine and to ensure Palestinians can rebuild their lives free of Israeli occupation. If we want Palestinian justice, we must fight for the Australian government to end Israeli weapons ties and enforce sanctions.
Instead of rolling out the red carpet for death merchants at the expo, authorities should be arresting executives and banning weapons trade complicit in war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and genocide.
It’s our responsibility to stop the convention and hold those attending accountable. These companies will celebrate booming profits, and will market their products as battle-tested – on Gaza’s children, journalists and doctors.
If we want to blockade this convention of war criminals, we need over a thousand people attending. Every single person that shows up, counts! Join us to stand for a world without genocide and war, and a government that prioritises welfare, not warfare.
The Indo-Pacific weapons expo starts at 7:30 AM on Tuesday 4th of November, so be there with us all at 6:30 AM to blockade the weapons expo and war criminals as they arrive.
Help us spread the word, mobilise your networks, and get involved! Get in touch with Palestine Action Group if your organisation wants to officially endorse the blockade.
