Andrew Starkey knew the fight to protect Indigenous cultural heritage couldn’t be fought via the usual channels of justice. Instead, the Starkeys took Saab Australia to the Australian National Contact Point for breaching the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises — and won.

As protesters picketed outside of the Brisbane Ferra Engineering factory, there was a resounding sentiment that having Brisbane’s name bound to a system that benefits from war was not only wrong, but it signified a moral cliff edge of how they want Brisbane’s economy to function. It also signified a connection to the growing global resistance movement, that stands against the global economic ties to the chain of the military-industrial complex.