Politics and the Burmese radios

Nicholas Farrelly - 07 Jan, 2010

We don’t believe there should be two-way trade between Australia and Burma at all … but there certainly shouldn’t be two-way trade in sensitive military equipment such as this…

– Senator Scott Ludlam (Greens – Western Australia), quoted in Arkar Moe, “Australian Senator Criticizes Exports to Burma”, The Irrawaddy, 6 January 2009. The Senator is referring to this recent Sydney Morning Herald report. Further coverage of the Burmese radios issue is available here, here and here.

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Nicholas Farrelly
Dr Nicholas Farrelly is the co-founder of New Mandala. A graduate of the Australian National University and the University of Oxford, over the past 20 years he has undertaken research in Thailand, Myanmar, Bangladesh, China and India. Nicholas is Head of the School of Social Sciences at the University of Tasmania and formerly the Associate Dean of the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University, where he also led the ANU Myanmar Research Centre from 2015 to 2017.
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