Australia choses a negative path in the Pacific No US/Australia Base on Manus Island The behaviour of Australia at the APEC Forum in Port Moresby this week (17-18 Nov 2018) resulted in greater tension and dangers of conflict along with the bellicose US. The announcement of an Australia/US/PNG military base on Manus lsland is a […]
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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 maintains […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 impetus […]
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 stopped […]
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Letter re Arms Trade
The Hon. Marise Payne,Minister for Defence,P.O. Box 6100,Parliament House,Canberra, 2600. Dear Ms Payne, As we approach, this year, the centenary of the cease fire of the war to end all wars it is disturbing to say the least that our government wants to remember the loss of sixty thousand lives with a massive programme for Australia to […]