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On 9 October, two activists from Mparntwe for Falastin locked themselves to a concrete-filled barrel, blocking Hatt Road for nine hours and preventing Pine Gap workers from accessing the base.
Flanking their protest were two boats, representing the aid flotilla and then approaching the occupied territory of Gaza from the Mediterranean.
The action, one protester, Jorgen Doyle, argued, was legally justified because it prevented Pine Gap workers from taking part in the commission of genocide on the other side of the world.
Pine Gap targets aid flotilla to Gaza
“We’re here because Pine Gap is sharing surveillance data, including geolocation information from mobile phones, with the genocidal Israeli regime, who are targeting journalists and their families, children, teachers, doctors, patients and the entire population of Palestine,” Doyle said.
John Lawrence SC, acting for Robinson and Walker, argued that the protest’s rationale was to stop the commission of genocide – an international crime – on the other side of the world.
Judge turns blind eye to the five eyes*
But the judge did not agree, finding: “The conduct of both defendants, deliberate as it was, cannot be accepted by this court as reasonable in justifying their intended commission of a criminal offence.”
Australia’s judiciary has a long history of collusion with intelligence agencies. One such example is exposed by Jenny Hocking in The Dismissal Dossier. The judges that I speak of are Sir Garfield Barwick and Sir Anthony Mason. It was their collusion and deceptive conduct with CIA frontman Sir John Kerr that made the dismissal possible. Jenny Hockings book reads like a poorly scripted big grade film noir. Hocking’s research is impeccable. It was the material that let her down. The Americans were very nervous about Whitlam withdrawing the troops from the American war in Vietnam and his skepticism of CIA-run Pine Gap. So they shut his government using Kerr as their stooge. The palace letters and the Queen’s involvement were a convenient distraction.
Pine Gap’s top secrets were decoded by a CIA contractor, TRW. One of the decoders was Christopher Boyce, later tried for espionage by the US for revealing that the CIA had infiltrated the Australian political and Trade Union elite and that they had referred to the Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr, as “our man Kerr”.
Ian Curr
26 October 2025
Notes
*Five Eyes is an intelligence alliance between five countries: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
The Dismissal Dossier: Everything You Were Never Meant to Know about November 1975 by Jenny Hocking
“Liberating Pine Gap” by Jim Dowling (ed.)
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