<p>Students and activists held a “theatric” demonstration against the opening of a research lab at the University of Melbourne by US weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin.</p><p>The student union on campus condemned the opening of the $13 million high tech laboratory</a> that was announced August 2016. The Age reported</a> that the lab, the company’s first outside of the United States, would focus on designing software that would be used for missile guidance, flights, and surveillance.</p><p>Protests were held in the university’s North Court on May 3. Demonstrators said the construction of the lab would make the university complicit in the war industry.</p><br />
