The Wire

Pine Gap is a mysterious set of white domes visible in the desert as you approach Alice Springs by air. Four Christian activists who broke into the high security US Australian spy base in December 2005 are currently on trial in Alice Springs. One of the four, Bryan Law, says the prosecution is arguing that politics should be kept out of the case , even though the group argues that what they did was very much a political statement about Australia’s involvement in the war in Iraq. Activist and former human shield Donna Mulhearn says she draws a direct connection between Pine Gap and much of the ‘collateral damage’ she witnessed in Iraq.