RAAF Base Tindal

But you've got, um, the permanent rotation of 2,500 Marines through Darwin, um, which is meant to be increasing too, by the way, uh, eventually.

The rotation of B-52 bombers through the RAAF Base Tindal in c- at Katherine.

Fuel and ordnance storage facilities at Darwin Harbor and Tindal, an expansion of the Tindal runway to accommodate US bombers at Australian taxpayers' expense.

The RAAF Base Amberley near Brisbane, an upgrade of the Cocos Islands runway, and there's a very good article c- you can read, uh, by Peter Cronau at Declassified Australia, which says that this is part of the US plan, in Cronau's word, to, quote, "project airborne power across the eastern Indian Ocean through the, uh, Indonesian archipelago shipping passages and into the South China Sea," which interestingly echoes, uh, the revelation that Gareth Evans made at the-

That's an American boasting that Australia has effectively given up its sovereignty.

Starting in twenty eleven and enshrined under the twenty fourteen FPA, Australia has committed to the following: the permanent rotation of up to two thousand five hundred United States Marines through Darwin, the rotation of B-52 nuclear-capable bombers through RAAF Base Tindal, the construction of US exclusive fuel and ordnance storage facilities at Darwin Harbor and Tindal, the expansion of the Tindal runway at Australian taxpayer expense of over one billion dollars to accommodate American bombers, the upgrade of the Cocos [Keeling] Islands runway for American surveillance aircraft, and the upgrade of HMAS Stirling in Western Australia, including, magically, hundreds of government-built houses for US personnel for a permanent rotation of US nuclear submarines.

Former security bureaucrat Mike Pezzullo is as militantly pro-American as it gets, but he is also refreshingly transparent about the FPA and AUKUS, noting in the Strategist on the twelfth of July twenty twenty-five that, quote, "We effectively are building a wartime operating base for US combat forces," and that under current arrangements, quote, "In a future crisis, an Australian Prime Minister would be waiting docilely outside the room while matters of war and peace that affected Australia were being decided by the US," end quote.

Restore sovereignty.

Most of those involved intelligence gathering and, and those sorts of things.

And you're looking at really big installations and things that are really critical for US, what they term force projection, things like Pine Gap, which downlinks masses of satellite surveillance data, but also things like access to RAAF Tindal, which is an, an air base in the Northern Territory where the B-52 and B-2 bombers take off and, and, and refuel and transit through.

So there is an extraordinary amount of US military activity happening on the Australian continent.

I suppose the question that really strikes me from reading your very interesting work is what rights do we have? And I think it, it distills down to this one question to me: If in some future ...