30th Birthday Special: Close Pine Gap

This year, Earth Matters is thirty years old! And 3CR, our proud parent, is 50 years old! We’re celebrating by digging into the archives, tipping our hat to past presenters who paved the way with hard-hitting and crucial content on environmental current affairs. Have you heard of Pine Gap? Most likely you have. You may even have heard about the fight against the construction of the US military base in the mid-80s. In this episode we’ll take a trip to those days, before even Earth Matters was born. It’s a fight that’s continued in different forms and been covered on this show over its decades, that sits at the intersection of land rights, militarism, anti-nuclear campaigning and global imperialism.  Importantly, it’s also a topical one – in just under a month, activists will once more converge for the Close Pine Gap Sacred Land Back convergence in Mparntwe Alice Springs to keep alive the flame of resistance that was lit all those years ago. More on the Close Pine Gap - Sacred Land Bank Covergence: https://closepinegap.org.au/Earth Matters #1561 was produced by Mia Audrey on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country.