Wage Peace - Disrupt War

Strategic, bold, direct and discursive action to disrupt militarism in Australia and our region.

F-35 Supply Chain

Nupress in the F35 Supply Chain

Stop Arming Israel – Arms Embargo Now – No Weapons for Genocide

Why are we picketing Nupress? 

Nupress supplies five critical parts and ground equipment for the F-35 war plane. Israel has one of the largest fleets of F-35s in the world. Nupress parts go into a global pool that Israel gets priority access to. Israel has used F-35s in countless massacres of Palestinians, and in Lebanon and Yemen. The organisation, Workers in Palestine, has named Nupress as a company complicit in the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestinians.

What is a community picket?

Community pickets are a collective form of direct action. They are powerful because of the community that shows up and the clarity of the cause. Supplying components to machines that are used to cause mass casualties and death is something that must be opposed, on both moral and legal grounds. 

What will happen at a community picket? 

Community members will take up space around the Nupress factory to form a barrier to vehicles and workers. This may be physical e.g. through interlinking arms, or symbolic e.g. through holding placards, speaking to workers, chanting, etc. This picket will involve all these tactics which means people can choose what is safe for them. In this way, the picket is inclusive of families with young children and people with a disability, for example. 

How do decisions get made? 

We use a democratic process to decide the best ways to disrupt production at Nupress. We encourage people to be informed, ready to discuss tactics and be involved in decision making.

How will we organise at the picket? 

There are different roles including worker liason, media liaison, police liaison, safety officer, etc. A convenor will initiate decision making processes for example how long to hold the picket. Affinity groups can act independently whilst ensuring respect for other tactics and groups. The key thing is holding firm to the goal of disrupting production at Nupress, in solidarity with Palestinian struggles and as a response to the call to end military supply to the genocide. 

What’s Marand got to do with it?

Marand[1] is a private Australian company heavily entrenched in the war machine. Many peacemongers will already know its name well, and know the name of its operating-group ASDAM,[2] the “Australian Sovereign Defence and Manufacturing Group” – so-called despite the fact that it exists to export weapons into states like the UK, US and Israel, increasing our reliance on their militaries, and thus reducing our sovereignty.[3]

ASDAM and Marand are the biggest Australian suppliers to the F-35 program[4] – the same F-35s used in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.[5] ASDAM’s members also supply massive amounts of products to warmongers such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and BAE Systems.[6]

Marand is very shadowy about what companies it owns (it claims to own 9), but supposedly receives about a third of the Australian F-35 contracts from the government.[7]

One company that is incredibly likely to be one of Marand’s biggest manufacturers for the F-35 program is “Production Parts”.[8] Production Parts is similarly shady about what it does, but it clearly states that it does a significant amount of repairing, metal & die casting, CNC machining, among many other steps in the precision manufacturing process.[9] These processes are vital to the manufacturing of complex machines like airplanes.

Seeing as Production Parts is located super close to the Essendon Fields Airport, at 5 King Street, Airport West, VIC 3042, it’s incredibly likely that they’re a major subsidiary of Marand, supplying a significant portion of Marand’s contribution to the F-35 program.[10]

According to information obtained by Wage Peace Australia, ASDAM and Marand are both headquartered at 151–153 Keys Road, Moorabbin Victoria 3189.[11]

CPE Capital is very proud of its investment in genocide, with Marand’s (frankly outdated and shadowy) website stating that it is owned by CPE Capital, and CPE’s website including ASDAM in its portfolio.

It’s difficult to tell just how up-to-date this information is, as the cost of obtaining the records for this messy web of companies quickly adds up, however records of ASDAM obtained by Wage Peace Australia also indicate that Perpetual Trust Limited hold a huge amount of shares in ASDAM, totalling a $57.9 million investment.[12]

CPE Capital can be found at Level 23, Aurora Place, 88 Phillip Street, Sydney NSW 2000.[13]

Perpetual Trust is one of the biggest investment funds in Australia, and is located at Level 18, 123 Pitt Street, Sydney NSW 2000.[14]

Another huge pot of gold for ASDAM is its “B Class” shareholders, who have paid $75 million into ASDAM.[15]

Note that all of the following shareholder and director addresses are a mix of work and residential addresses, and are exclusively provided for the purpose of contacting the corresponding persons or companies.

These “B Class” shareholders, who are happy to fund genocide, include:[16]

  • Alicia Stinchcombe at 4 Darlington Close, Carseldine QLD 4034, who has shovelled about $6.7 million into just this part of the war machine.
  • “Agnes Beach Pty Ltd” and A&T Sanderson Pty Ltd (likely a director of ASDAM, Andrew Sanderson) both of 100 Woodward Place, Pullenvale QLD 4069. This address has invested a whopping $21.8 million in ASDAM alone.
  • CT Hall Pty Ltd of 81 Martindale Street, Corinda QLD 4075, with another $6.7 million.
  • Pamm Enterprises Pty Ltd of Unit 17, 17–19 Mayneview Street, Milton QLD 4064, with another $6.7 million.
  • Mason GT Pty Ltd and G&T Mason Pty Ltd (very creative names) of 84–90 Adelong Avenue, Thagoona QLD 4306, with a combined $15.1 million in ASDAM. These two are a “Family” trust fund, and a superannuation fund, respectively.[17]
  • Darren Paul & Rebecca Hutchinson, who jointly hold shares they paid $10 million for, from 52 Hawthorndene Drive, Hawthorndene SA 5051.
  • Oceania Capital Partners Limited of Suite 57, 14 Narabang Way, Belrose NSW 2085, with $7.7 million worth of shares in ASDAM. This location is AUSTLINK Corporate Centre.[18]

A full list of the directors of the genocidal Marand and ASDAM can be found below.[19]

  • For ASDAM & Marand—Rohan Stocker of 6 Roehampton Crescent, Mount Eliza VIC 3930, born 26 July 1969 in Frankston, VIC. Stocker is also a co-secretary of ASDAM.
  • ASDAM—Andrew Mark Sanderson of 100 Woodward Place, Pullenvale QLD 4069, born 5 May 1965 in Toorak Gardens, SA, likely the significant stockholder from earlier.
  • ASDAM—John Richard Haddock of 38 Wentworth Street, Randwick NSW 2031, born 11 May 1976 in Sydney, NSW.
  • ASDAM—Jeremy Alexander McKenzie Stevenson of Level 23, Aurora Place, 88 Phillip Street, Sydney NSW 2000, born 11 June 1974 in Adelaide, SA.
  • ASDAM—Alice Hue of Level 23, Aurora Place, 88 Phillip Street, Sydney NSW 2000, born 27 August 1986 in Shanghai, China.
  • For Marand—Ian Rodgers of 59 The Ridge, Mount Eliza VIC 3930, born in Sheffield UK on 21 April 1980. Rodgers is the Secretary for both ASDAM and Marand.

[1] Officially ‘Marand Precision Engineering Pty Ltd’ ACN: 004 763 688. Australian Government, Australian Business Register, Current Details for ABN 59 004 763 688 (ABN Record retrieved 19 April 2024) <https://abr.business.gov.au/ABN/View?abn=59004763688>

[2] Legally three separate companies, ‘ASDAM Finance Pty Ltd’ (ACN: 631 992 786), ‘ASDAM Holdings Pty Ltd’ (the company which financially owns all of the ASDAM members; ACN: 631 990 086) and ‘ASDAM Operations Pty Ltd’ (ACN: 631 993 710)

[3] ASDAM (Web Page, n.d.) <https://asdam.com/>

[4] ‘Who Arms Israel?’, Workers in Palestine (Fact Sheet, 2023) <https://www.workersinpalestine.org/who-arms-israel>

[5] Ashish Dangwal, ‘US Hails “Lethal Performance” of Israeli F-35 Jets: Confirms Providing “Mission Data Files” to IDF’, The EurAsian Times (News Report, 16 December 2023) <https://www.eurasiantimes.com/us-hails-f-35s-deadly-performance-against-hamas-confirms/>; Talia Lakritz, ‘Israel Shot Down Iranian Missiles with F-35I Adir Stealth Fighter Jets that Cost $44,000 Per Hour to Fly’, Military & Defence, Business Insider (News Report, 18 April 2024) <https://www.businessinsider.com/israel-war-planes-fighter-jets-f35-2024-4>

[6] ASDAM (n 3); ‘About Us’, Marand (Web Page, n.d.) <https://www.marand.com.au/about/>

[7] Australian Government, Department of Defence, F-35 Australian Industry Participation (Report, 2018) pp 30–31 <https://www.defence.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-05/F35_Booklet_0.pdf>

[8] Australian Government, Australian Business Register, ABN 59 004 763 688 (Historical ABN Details retrieved online at 15 April 2024) <https://abr.business.gov.au/AbnHistory/View?id=59004763688>

[9] Production Parts, ‘Production Parts Pty Ltd’, LinkedIn (Company Profile, n.d.) <https://www.linkedin.com/company/production-parts-pty-ltd/?originalSubdomain=au>

[10] ASIC, PRODUCTION PARTS (ASIC Register Online Entry retrieved online at 15 April 2024) <https://connectonline.asic.gov.au/RegistrySearch/faces/landing/bySearchId.jspx?searchId=153653411&searchIdType=BUSN&_adf.ctrl-state=fnavm6uuf_99>

[11] InfoTrack, ASIC Current & Historical Organisation Extract (online on 19 April 2024)

[12] InfoTrack (n 11).

[13] ‘Contact Us’, CPE Capital (Web Page, n.d.) <https://cpecapital.com/contact-cpe-capital/>

[14] InfoTrack (n 11).

[15] Ibid.

[16] Ibid.

[17] Australian Government, Australian Business Register, Search Results (Web Page, retrieved on 20 April 2024) <https://abr.business.gov.au/Search/>

[18] Google, 14 Narabang Way, Street View (Map retrieved on 20 April 2024)

[19] InfoTrack (n 11).