HISTORICAL FACTS: Land forces - Caught on Camera

Activist fights legality of cops' weapons expo powers

A young climate activist has launched a legal challenge against a police ban that blocked her from entering a weapons conference.

AAP · Oct 5

Activists plan legal action against police ban on entering security zone near Perth weapons expo

Under new WA laws anyone who defies an exclusion order could face a maximum $36,000 fine and three years in prison

The Guardian - AU · Oct 2

‘Like being stabbed in the eye’: the risk of serious injury by police at protests is escalating, experts warn

Baton rounds and flash-bang devices – so-called ‘less lethal’ tools – are part of an increasingly dangerous use of force to crack down on protests across Australia, lawyers say

The Guardian - AU · Sep 26, 2025

At Melbourne’s weapons expo, arms dealers snack on popcorn a grenade’s throw from tanks and autonomous robots

As protesters clashed with police on the streets outside, Land Forces attendees slung back gin and compared tools of the trade

The Guardian - AU · Sep 11, 2024

‘Blood On Their Hands’: Why 25,000 Protesters Are Demonstrating In Melbourne’s CBD

Police were armed with pepper spray, rubber bullets and smoke bombs.

Pedestrian.tv · Sep 11, 2024

Activists are out to disrupt a military expo in Melbourne. Why are they protesting and what is planned?

An alliance of activist groups has vowed to target Land Forces 2024 in what could be Victoria’s biggest protest in decades. How are police preparing?

The Guardian - AU · Sep 9, 2024

Anti-war protesters set to converge on weapons expo

Thousands of anti-war protesters are expected to cause chaos in Melbourne this week as the city braces for its biggest demonstration in more than two decades.

AAP · Sep 8, 2024

Turkish Forces Supervise Training, Graduation of Batch of Libyan Officers

The Commander of the Turkish forces in Libya, Colonel Osman Itaj, and Muhammad Al-Haddad, the chief of staff of the forces loyal to Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah's Government of National Unity (GNU) attended on Friday the graduation ceremony of a new batch of infantry, artillery and armored school officers, after they received…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Nov 26, 2022

VIDEO: Inferno: Fiery Explosions As Huge Russian Base In Ukraine Is Blitzed With Rocket Fire

This aerial footage shows fiery explosions taking place one after the other at a massive Russian military camp in Ukraine after it is targeted in a rocket blitz by Ukrainian forces.

Zenger · May 10, 2022