00:01They came from across the country with a clear message.
00:05Shut it down!
00:07Shut it down!
00:09Hundreds of protesters with placards and flags calling for Pine Gap's closure
00:14and land rights for Urunda traditional owners.
00:17Always will be Aboriginal land!
00:21Walking toward Pine Gap's gated entrance, which the ABC can't legally film.
00:26A couple of members of the group, representatives, go forward and speak with the executives.
00:31I'm about 200 metres from the entrance of Pine Gap and I can't show you that
00:36protesters have broken away with a group of traditional owners
00:39who are delivering a letter demanding their land back.
00:44Thank you!
00:46I took a letter saying that I want my land back and that the base is built on our sacred
00:53land.
00:53Shame on Australia and shame on America.
00:56They're also calling for compensation for occupation.
00:59We are affected by what's behind those gates and what's been happening across the world.
01:08And we don't want to be part of anybody's trouble.
01:11Trouble from intelligence gathered through a network of US surveillance satellites.
01:16It's a spy operation which is aimed both at adversaries in the United States and from time to time at
01:25some of its allies.
01:26We're letting them use our land, this key real estate, to I think commit some of the worst atrocities we've
01:34seen.
01:34The Department of Defence says it doesn't comment on intelligent matters or Pine Gap.
01:39The Department of Defence says it doesn't matter.
01:42The Department of Defence says it doesn't matter.
01:44The Department of Defence says it doesn't matter.
01:44The Department of Defence says it doesn't matter.
01:45The Department of Defence says it doesn't matter.
01:45The Department of Defence says it doesn't matter.
01:46The Department of Defence says it doesn't matter.
01:46The Department of Defence says it doesn't matter.
01:46The Department of Defence says it doesn't matter.
01:46The Department of Defence says it doesn't matter.
01:47The Department of Defence says it doesn't matter.
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