Is Australia at war with Iran? The fine line between ‘defensive operations’ and complicity

While its weapons, materiel and personnel are on their way to the conflict, Australia finds itself part of a coalition of the reticent, insisting its role is purely defensive Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Above the streets of Tehran, the weapons bay of an F-35 fighter jet opens and a missile streaks groundward, raining death and destruction on the city below. The mechanism that allows the jet to rapidly open its bay doors and fire is made in only one place in the world: a factory in suburban Melbourne. More than 700 of the fighter jet’s “ critical pieces ” are manufactured in Victoria alone.