Huge American-Australian Military Bases Announced

(Canberra, Australia) Two giant United States-Australia military training and forward expeditionary bases are to be built in northwestern Australia, according to senior government sources.

From Xinhuanet.com:

A new base at Bradshaw in the Northern Territory will be equipped with a landing strip for giant C-17 military transport aircraft and accommodation for some 750 troops, or a U.S. marine expeditionary battalion.

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The area is reported to be outside civil air traffic radar coverage and this will enable military planes with heavy equipment and larger numbers of troops to come and go unnoticed, the report said.

Plans are under way for another base at Yampi Sound, on the north-western Kimberley coast of Western Australia, for joint U.S.-Australian training in amphibious seaborne landing techniques.

Also being discussed as available to the U.S. military is the facility at Shoalwater Bay near Rockhampton. Furthermore, Prime Minister John Howard has restated the government's position that the U.S. is welcome to establish "a more permanent presence in Australia."

I expect that anti-American, anti-war, anti-military, and other anti-civilization groups are organizing to protest.