The Judgment
CITATION: The Queen v Webb & Ors [2017] NTSC 94 PARTIES: THE QUEEN v WEBB, Timothy Edward Alexander and DOWLING, Franz and PESTORIUS, Margaret Cecila and PAINE, Andrew William and DOWLING, James Joseph TITLE OF COURT: SUPREME COURT OF THE NORTHERN TERRITORY...
Trial Day Eight (or something like that) – Peace pilgrims sentenced
19 days since our court case began in Alice Springs, 356 days since Federal Attorney-General George Brandis authorised our prosecution under the Defence (Special Undertakings) Act, and 431 days since we walked onto Pine Gap carrying musical instruments on a chilly...
Trial Day Seven – The verdict
Day seven in the Alice Springs supreme court for the Pine Gap peace pilgrims, with all the evidence done and the jury out considering their verdict. Surely it couldn’t go any longer? We have been staying at a lovely Christian retreat centre, where among other things...
Trial Day Six (and counting) – the jury is out
Day six in the Alice Springs supreme court for the Pine Gap peace pilgrims. With all the evidence done and the verdict set to be given, you would be forgiven for thinking we would be getting more nervous. But in fact we were the most rested and relaxed of any morning...
Trial Day Five – Will our defences stand?
Day five in court for the Pine Gap peace pilgrims. It was a tired morning after a big night of preparing legal arguments and joining a local bible study at the gates of Pine Gap itself; but once again we put on our assortment of anti-war t-shirts (except for Franz,...
Trial day four – the Peace Pilgrims take the stand
Day four in the Alice Springs supreme court for the five peace pilgrims charged with trespassing on Pine Gap. And this one was really our most important day so far as we finally got to give our testimony. Again we stopped for prayers outside the court. The bible...
Trial Day Three – defence opens
The five Pine Gap peace pilgrims were back in court today after a couple of days off. The weekend was not spent idly mind you – besides lots of case planning, we did a lament service on Saturday night at ANZAC Hill, and a public meeting at the town council building...
2016 Andy Paine interview with Richard Tanter on Pine Gap
Listen to Paradigm Shift on Pine Gap 23rd Sept 2016 on Soundcloud (Audio) Andy Paine (Paradigm Shift 4ZZZ fm 102.1 Fridays at noon) interviews Richard Tanter (Nautilus Project) about the US Spy base at Pine Gap
War on Trial Public forum on Periscope
WAR ON TRIAL Public forum will be broadcast on the WagePeaceau Periscope channel. Watch, comment, like, ask questions. Professor Richard Tanter - President of ICAN Scott Ludlam - Long time peace activist Margaret Pestorius - Peace Pilgrim Lisa Ling - Drones Whistle...
Trial Day Two – We went to break the denial most Australians live in when it comes to this US base in the middle of our country
Day two of court for the five Pine Gap peace pilgrims, and the end of a long week during which we have all become very familiar faces to the friendly staff of the Alice Springs Supreme Court. The day was sadly lacking in much courtroom drama, taken up as it was by...