
Jon Piccini reviews Kieran Finnane, ‘Peace Crimes: Pine Gap, National Security and Dissent’ (UQP, 2020)
In 1952 the Menzies government passed the Defence (Special Undertakings) Act, which banned entry to ‘prohibited area[s]’, as part of its defence against the ‘red menace’. That act was barely used until 2016, when a group of Christian peace protesters entered the Pine Gap base near Alice Springs. Jon Piccini reviews Kieran Finnane’s new […]