Talisman Saber

Talisman Sabre must halt bombing as civilians enter training area – Greens warn

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 09:10:14 +0000

Australian Greens spokesperson assisting on Defence - Senator Scott Ludlam. 23 July 2013.

Greens Senator Scott Ludlam says the US bombing of the Great Barrier Reef has sparked two peace protestors to enter the Shoalwater Bay Military Training Area today to disrupt the Talisman Sabre training exercises.

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Talisman Saber - Vincent Emanuele's speak out at Rockhampton's army barracks, 2013.

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Jul 2013 02:46:05 +0000

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Nonviolence Activist Disarms Helicopter in Rockhampton

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 01:25:49 +0000

Bryan Law is currently in police custody after using a garden mattock to smash a military helicopter in Rockhampton Airport during the Talisman Saber US/Australian wargames.

Bryan caused a stir in Rockhampton by announcing his intention to disarm a military helicopter to the Rockhampton Airport, Defence Dept and QLD Police many months prior to the Talisman Saber military exercises.

Related: Listen to Bryan Law's CIB interview | Graeme Dunstan - CIB interview | Youtube - Win TV News coverage

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Christian Activists enter restricted military area during live-fire exercises

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:14:11 +0000

Four nonviolent Christian activists have entered the Shoalwater Bay Training Area this morning to stop the Talisman Saber exercises. Calling themselves the “Bonhoeffer 4” after Kevin Rudd’s favourite theologian, Margaret Pestorius (44, Social Worker, Cairns), Jarrod McKenna (28, School Peace Educator, Perth) Jessica Morrison (33, University lecturer, Melbourne) and Rev. Simon Moyle (32, Baptist Minister, Melbourne) are currently moving towards a live-fire area.

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US Australian military exercise

4,000 sex-crazed drug-addled US troops to descend on Cairns

kimk — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:08:29 +0000

Where US troops go, sexual assaults and drug charges follow. Look out Cairns!

Around the world, in the Philippines, Japan and many other locations, US bases have become the centre of major social problems. The Governor of Okinawa has said the US bases on his island brought a major increase in levels of prostitution, drugs, alcoholism, rape, sexually transmitted diseases, and abuse of women and children.

The Australian experience is similar.

An Anglican Church report from Hobart details frequent sexual assaults on juvenile men and women by US service people.

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