Stop Pine Gap, visual diary compiled by Philippa Fincher, 1983

MLMSS 11460/Box 1X

fonds

1983

Textual Records, Photographs

9664971

0.30 metres of textual and graphic material (1 outsize box)

During November 1983, about 700 women set up camp at the gates of the Pine Gap Defence facility near Alice Springs. Their two week 'peace camp' was part of an international feminist peace movement arising from Cold War tensions and the invention of the cruise missile. The Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap began operations in 1970 following a treaty between the US and Australian governments.
Reference: Library correspondence file

'Stop Pine Gap', a visual diary by peace activist Philippa Fincher, November 1983. A ring bound folder with handmade and decorated covers, containing 76 laminated pages of black and white photoprints and descriptive typescript captions. The diary recounts a women's peace protest and establishment of a Peace Camp near the Pine Gap Joint Defence Space Research Facility located 19 kilometres from Alice Springs in the Northern Territory.

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