{"id":149385,"date":"2018-01-28T23:14:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T04:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=149385"},"modified":"2018-01-28T23:14:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T04:14:34","slug":"australia-plans-to-enter-10-top-defence-export-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/28\/australia-plans-to-enter-10-top-defence-export-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia plans to enter 10 top defence export countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_149405\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-149405\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Christopher-Pyne.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-149405\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Christopher-Pyne.jpg\" alt=\"The government will create a 3.8 billion Australian dollar ($3.1 billion) fund to lend to exporters that banks are reluctant to finance, Defence Industry Minister Christopher Pyne said. (Photo by Policy Exchange - https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/policyexchange\/14106739566\/, CC BY 2.0)\" width=\"800\" height=\"1174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Christopher-Pyne.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Christopher-Pyne-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Christopher-Pyne-768x1127.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Christopher-Pyne-698x1024.jpg 698w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-149405\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The government will create a 3.8 billion Australian dollar ($3.1 billion) fund to lend to exporters that banks are reluctant to finance, Defence Industry Minister Christopher Pyne said. (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=43231812\">Photo by Policy Exchange &#8211; https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/policyexchange\/14106739566\/, CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>CANBERRA, Australia \u2014 The Australian government announced on Monday a new strategy to boost Australia into the ranks of the top 10 defence industry exporting countries within a decade.<\/p>\n<p>The government will create a 3.8 billion Australian dollar ($3.1 billion) fund to lend to exporters that banks are reluctant to finance, Defence Industry Minister Christopher Pyne said.<\/p>\n<p>Australia is around the 20th largest defence exporter with most of its exports including the Bushmaster armoured vehicle and the Nulka missile decoy sold to the United States, Britain, Canada and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>The aim of boosting Australia into the top 10 defence exporters was \u201cvery realistic,\u201d Pyne said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAustralia has a very sophisticated defence industry, but we&#8217;ve never had a government until this one that&#8217;s been determined to drive that into exports in order to grow jobs and the economy,\u201d Pyne told Australian Broadcasting Corp.<\/p>\n<p>Trade Minister Steve Ciobo said his government was not concerned that exported arms could be turned against Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis isn&#8217;t about providing weapons or arms to rogue regimes or anything like that,\u201d Ciobo told Nine Network television. \u201cWe&#8217;ve got strict controls and those controls make sure we only supply defence assets in the future to like-minded countries that have a strong human rights record and have protections in place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that when countries are strong and others know that they&#8217;re strong, then the likelihood of there being conflict is, of course, reduced,\u201d Ciobo added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CANBERRA, Australia \u2014 The Australian government announced on Monday a new strategy to boost Australia into the ranks of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":149405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[268,44998,44997],"class_list":["post-149385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-australia","tag-defence-industry-minister-christopher-pyne","tag-top-defence-export-countries","mauthors-rod-mcguirk","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}