Steve Ciobo is the new Defence Industry Minister taking over from Christopher Pyne. He is now the Australian Minister who is responsible for our arms trade with other countries. He is responsible for the transfer of Australian arms and equipment to the biggest trouble spot in the World, the Middle East. The Australian Government...
Author: Denis Doherty
Letter to SMH re Pine Gap
Dear Editor, After being arrested around 5 times at the gates of Pine Gap since 1987 it comes as no surprise that intelligence gifted to Australia is first filtered through US eyes only. The revelations in today’s SMH 26/4/18 The Secret Room closed off to Australia show that ‘in many countries (Australia especially) around...
Government lied to Australia about Pine Gap WA Governor implicated in coverup
Revelations that the US war fighting base at Pine Gap, near Alice Springs, had a secret room that excluded Australians exposes the lies that Australian governments generally and current WA Governor Kim Beazley have been telling the Australian people. In March, 1985, the then defence minister Kim Beazley insisted the government was fully aware...
So we were right all along – SMH 26/4/18 by Nick Miller
From Sydney Morning Herald today (Thursday) For decades the Anti-Bases Campaign Coalition and other peace groups have argued that Pine Gap is a US facility and that Australia does not know everything that goes on there, cannot control its activities, and does not have full access to its intelligence gathering. We were told we...
GCOMS 2018 April 21 Event at Railway Square Sydney 11 am
d1 Master of Ceremonies Welcome. Welcome everyone who is here for the awards for the best weapons exporters for 2018. Some deluded people call us merchants of death but we see ourselves more positively. After all, we facilitated the rubblelisation of the Middle East and now the construction or reconstruction industry. We provided the...
Good letter in Today’s Sydney Morning Herald 26/3/2018
Playing the right cards Kim Beazley says Trump agreeing to meet Kim Jong-un is sacrificing a “crucial US playing card”, for which Trump gets no return (“Not even Bolton knows what Trump will do next”, March 24-25). What he should have done, asserts Beazley, would have been to negotiate a clear process to. denuclearise...
Russian Nuclear Weapons the responsibility of the US and Australia
“We strongly condemn the Russian Government for developing new nuclear weapons. This is totally unacceptable at a time when most nations of the world are signing the United Nations treaty on the abolition of nuclear weapons,” Dr Hannah Middleton from the Anti-Bases Campaign said in Sydney today. “However, we also hold the US responsible...
More Marines for Darwin? No! Boot ‘em out!
Media Release Monday, February 26, 2018 Anti-Bases and IPAN –NSW peace groups have condemned Prime Minister Turnbull’s agreement in Washington to increase the number of US Marines in Darwin to 2,500 at a greater rate than originally planned. “This is a backward step which is against Australia’s interests,” Denis Doherty of the Anti-Bases...
The misbehaviour of HMAS Melbourne and HMAS Parramatta
Dear Minister, We are sad to read of an account of the above ships stopping near the village of Gangjeong on Jeju Island South Korea reported in a newsletter printed by that village. The article alleges that the RAN ships arrived on Nov 3 2017 and while other ships from other countries...
Australia’s Fascination with Violence
The Australian Anti-Bases Campaign Coalition (AABCC) and the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network NSW (IPAN NSW) profoundly oppose the PM’s statement on placing Australia among the top ten of arms exporters through its new arm export strategy. We fully support and commend this statement by Professor Stuart Rees – Council for peace and justice...