A protest over Pine Gap’s claimed role in genocide has refocused attention on the secretive US satellite base near Alice Springs
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Straight and bare, Hatt Road runs south-west from Mparntwe-Alice Springs before it suddenly swings north through a narrow gap in the MacDonnell Ranges.
It is what lies beyond that draws protesters here time and time again.
Hatt Road – unremarkable save for the fierce signs insisting “No Photography From This Point On” and demanding drivers “Turn Around Now” – is the main road into Pine Gap, the highly secretive joint Australian–United States satellite communications and signals intelligence surveillance base.
