obstructing USA navy landing hovercraft on darwin beach
this Sunday a Darwin man was arrested while attempting to obstruct war rehearsal operations at Lee Point.
Despite standing in the water off Lee Pt right in the path of the USA Navy LCAC amphibious craft, it continued to rush back and forth past the protester until he was removed from the area by water police.
The arrested man said he was protesting the context of a growing foreign military presence in and around Darwin.
"This growing foreign presence has contributed to the largest ever Darwin component of the biennial Talisman Sabre war rehearsals, amid dangerous posturing towards China."
"Australia should maintain good relationships with the USA, which may include a military alliance, but this should not extend to tolerating USA military bases in Australia. It may make sense to do some joint training, but we should be careful to not allow this to be abused by our ally to send dangerous signals to other nations in our region."
This lone protest coincided with two protesters in Queensland entering the Shoalwater Bay live-fire training range to obstruct war preparations there.
Earlier this week, three other protesters were arrested in the same area.
