Petition – US Marines out of Darwin!

US Marines out of Darwin!

To the Honourable President and members of the Senate in Parliament assembled.

The petition of the undersigned shows:

  • For more than 100 years Australian governments have willingly been drawn into wars that have had little strategic importance to this nation, at the behest of foreign powers.
  • Experience has shown, and senior politicians and academics argue, that many of the actions taken in the name of the Australia/US alliance, so far from offering Australia protection, have jeopardised our national security and sovereignty.
  • The regular, rotational deployment of US marines to Darwin has major military implications for Australia. It demonstrates to others our subservience to a foreign power and puts at risk our relationships with our Northern neighbours.

Therefore, your petitioners ask that the Senate enact legislation to end the deployment of US marines to Darwin.

(Petition created by Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN), PO Box A889, South Sydney, NSW, 1235)

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Quotes

“American military facilities in Australia are an essential part of America’s re-arming in the Western Pacific” and “Such facilities are incompatible with Australian sovereignty and integrity as an independent nation“. Source: Malcolm Fraser, ‘Introduction’, Questioning the Value of the Australia/US Alliance, Submission to the 2015 Defence White Paper, Marrickville Peace Group, Dec 2014.

“In November 2011 Prime Minister Gillard and President Obama announced the deployment of a Marine Air Ground Task Force to Darwin, commencing with a first rotation of 200 Marines in April 2012. A second rotation of 250 was deployed in April 2013. In April 2014 a third contingent of around 1,150 Marines is scheduled to be deployed, and a full contingent of 2,500 Marines is scheduled to be deployed by 2016-17.” Source: Richard Tanter, ‘US Marine Rotational Force – Darwin’, Nautilus Institute, 6 Apr 2014.

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