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Pine Gap threatens Gaza, China and Australia

The Pine Gap spy base near Alice Springs is expanding and so is its importance to the US,” Denis Doherty from the Anti-Bases Campaign said in Sydney today. Launched by a US-Australia treaty in 1966, the spy base is run by the CIA and the National Security Agency (NSA). Satellites operated out of Pine Gap […]

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The Campaign Outline on Nuclear Submarines

NO NUCLEAR SUBMARINES Campaign proposals a) Campaign plan – for all Work to develop specific actions to involve the ALP left in the campaign; send letters to and/or ring all ALP Federal and State parliamentarians Work to develop specific actions to involve environmental groups in the campaign Work to develop specific actions to involve anti-nuclear […]

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No to war against the Kurds – Condemnation of the Turkish Government

ANTI-BASES calls an immediate ceasefire and a withdrawal of Turkish forces from Syrian Territory. The war started by Turkey is an aggression against the Kurdish people and an attack against the Syrian territorial sovereignty. This cannot be and is not the solution of the regional problems. It only brings more civilian suffering and death.  After […]

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Cabinet Papers are they telling us all? NO not about Pine Gap

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/what-is-still-being-held-back-in-cabinet-papers-release-20181228-p50oku.html   What is still being held back in Cabinet papers release? By Sally Whyte 1 January 2019 — 11:00pm The annual release of Cabinet documents from 20 years ago is generally seen as an exercise in transparency, with the public able to get an insight into the issues considered by the government of the day, […]

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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 the […]

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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 of […]

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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 were […]