My father works for the company that sells weapons used in my partner’s homeland | Izzy Brown

I had never imagined how horribly the company my father works for was entangled with the story of my West Papuan partner

They make great trucks. That's what my father says whenever I ask him: What do they make? Who do they sell them to?" Only to the good guys," is his standard answer, and the topic changes quickly. But what he calls trucks", most people call tanks". And I am always led to wonder, What kind of good guy' drives a tank?"

My father works for Thales, one of the richest weapons corporations in the world. Before heading up security for Thales he worked for Asio, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation.