MELBOURNE, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- Students at Australia's most prestigious university are protesting a new laboratory for a United States missile manufacturer.
The student union at the University of Melbourne said a collaboration between Lockheed Martin, one of the largest suppliers of missiles and war planes to the U.S. and the university's Defence Science Institute (DSI) was "unethical."
Tyson Holloway-Clarke, president of the student union, said by approving the lab the university was "endorsing, and being complicit in this technology which could lead to death and the destruction of property."
"We oppose violence," Holloway-Clarke told Fairfax Media in comments published on Tuesday. "We are ideologically opposed to this partnership. It's ethically dubious."
Holloway-Clarke said students were not consulted on whether the lab would be built and he is now writing to state and federal governments to bring the issue to light.
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