Australia is probably overestimating Pine Gap’s support for our place in the US alliance. It’s no longer irreplaceable. The reasons the joint US–Australian intelligence facility sits in the central desert rather than on a Pacific …
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese shouldn’t rush to meet US President Donald Trump, even if he feels a strong need to do so after meeting China’s Xi Jinping this month. Our big risk at the moment …
China is seeking to establish itself as the hegemonic power in Asia, using coercion and intimidation, and by challenging US primacy. It appears to be willing to use force to achieve its aims, perhaps from …
Since the 1980s, Australian defence ministers have made regular parliamentary statements about the roles and functions of the US–Australia joint defence facilities (at Pine Gap, North West Cape and, until 1999, Nurrungar). These are important …
‘We would be deaf and blind without Pine Gap.’ — Kim Beazley Now in its sixth decade of operation, the Pine Gap facility, outside Alice Springs, is a remarkable element of Australia’s alliance with the United …