Law passed to stop protests at Pine Gap
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The Government has passed legislation that could give activists seven year prison sentences for protesting at Pine Gap, the US military base located in the Northern Territory. It’s an amendment to a bill that was passed in 1952, to protect the British conducting nuclear tests from Australian protesters. In December 2005, four activists were arrested after sneaking into Pine Gap. They faced the seven years in prison, but escaped through a right to appeal that has now been removed.
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