Antinuclear

Stephen Smith gives tick to joint US-Aust bases From:THE AUSTRALIAN, AAP  June 26, 2013   THE federal government has again expressed its support for the presence of US defence bases on Australian soil, declaring they offer access to intelligence unavailable elsewhere…….

Australia currently hosts two facilities – Pine Gap, commissioned in 1967 and the Joint Geological and Geophysical Research station, both of which are near Alice Springs.

Pine Gap collects intelligence data for the US and Australia and provide ballistic missile early warning information.