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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Daniel Hurst and Sarah Basford Canales

More transparency needed on exports to Israel after Greens ‘exploited’ information vacuum, Labor says

Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jet
Labor defence industry minister Pat Conroy has accused the Greens of spreading misinformation. Adam Bandt says the government should ‘stop making F-35 fighter parts for planes that get used in Israel’. Photograph: Axel Schmidt/Reuters

The Albanese government has conceded it was forced to release more details about defence exports to Israel by a growing awareness that an information vacuum was being “exploited” and allowing misinformation to spread.

The defence industry minister, Pat Conroy, said the “level of social division and damage to our community has caused us to rethink the level of transparency needed”.

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