At Canberra airport, a sleek modern building on the edge of Australia’s sleepy capital, evidence of Australia’s military build-up is everywhere. Almost every advertising hoarding is plastered with the name of an international defence company, such as Raytheon, BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin and ThyssenKrupp. The promotional blitz has even prompted a “No Airport Arms Ads” campaign to ask the airport to replace them with a “friendlier greeting to the nation’s capital”.
堪培拉機場位於澳洲寂靜首都的邊緣,是一棟氣派的現代建築,在這裏,隨處都能看到澳洲提升軍力的證據。幾乎每塊廣告牌上都貼著一家國際防務公司的名字,如雷神公司(Raytheon)、BAE系統(BAE Systems)、洛克希德•馬丁(Lockheed Martin)以及蒂森克虜伯(ThyssenKrupp)。這番推銷大戰甚至激起了一場「禁止機場軍火廣告」運動,要求該機場把這類廣告換成「這座首都城市的更友好問候」。