See also:
- The Pine Gap Project (with Desmond Ball and Bill Robinson)
- The Japan SIGINT Project (with Desmond Ball)
‘Pine Gap implicates Australia as complicit in Israel’s genocide in Gaza‘, Pearls and Irritations, 30 March 2024, with links to the IGIS complaint and to the 27 March webinar Pine Gap and Gaza: Blood on Our Lands, Blood on Our Hands, with Nasser Mashni, Barbara Flick, Kathryn Gilbey, Peter Cronau and Richard Tanter (slides).
‘Mystifying Pine Gap – again: Brian Toohey on Paul Dibb’s “astonishing” errors, Pearls and Irritations, 21 March 2024.
Attachment: ‘Evaluating four claims by Brian Toohey against Paul Dibb on Pine Gap’, 20 March 2024.
‘The North West Cape cluster of high technology defence facilities‘, Australian Defence Facilities, Australian Defence Facilities, Nautilus Institute, 15 September 2022
‘Mystifying Pine Gap, Distorting Des Ball: Notes on Brian Toohey’s Secret: The Making of Australia’s Security State‘, Nautilus Institute, NAPSNet Policy Forum Online, 11 January 2021 [with a response by Brian Toohey].
‘WikiLeaks, Australia and empire‘, in Felicity Ruby and Peter Cronau, (eds.), A Secret Australia: Revealed by the WikiLeaks Exposés, Monash University Press, 2020.
Hiding from the light: The establishment of the Joint Australia-United States Relay Ground Station at Pine Gap, Special Report, Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability, 2 November 2019; short version: ‘Pine Gap history-dogged by censorship and dereliction of duty‘, Pearls & Irritations, 14 November 2019
‘An Australian pathway through Pine Gap to the nuclear ban treaty’, Pearls & Irritations, 5 August 2019; Alice Springs News, 6 August 2019; [extended and footnoted version].
Tightly Bound: Australia’s Alliance-Dependent Militarization’, Global Asia, Spring 2018, Vol.13 No.1; reprinted in Pearls & Irritations, 18 May 2018); extended and documented version: ‘Tightly Bound: The United States and Australia’s Alliance-Dependent Militarization‘, Asia-Pacific Journal, Volume 16, Issue 11, Number 2 (31 May 2018)
Pine Gap’s nuclear role and the alternative’, Alice Springs News, 15 November 2017; extended version: ‘The nuclear ban treaty, Pine Gap and the Nobel Peace Prize‘, Pearls and Irritations, 16 November 2017.
‘North Korea necessitates a reassessment of Australia’s US intelligence bases’, East Asia Forum, 13 October 2017; extended version published as ‘Pine Gap and a possible Korean war’, Pearls and Irritations, 16 October 2017.
‘John Blaxland on Des Ball and Pine Gap’, The Strategist, 13 September 2017.
‘Photo Essay: Landscapes of Secret Power‘. Photography by Kristian Laemmle-Ruff, Trevor Paglen, Felicity Ruby, and Desmond Ball. Text by Richard Tanter, Arena Magazine, 147, May-June 2017 [footnoted version].
‘Fifty years on, Pine Gap should reform to better serve Australia‘, The Conversation, 9 December 2016.
‘Our poisoned heart: the transformation of Pine Gap‘, Arena Magazine, No. 144, October 2016.
‘Pine Gap’s 50th anniversary‘, Late Night Live, Radio National, ABC, 28 September 2016
Australia’s participation in the Pine Gap enterprise, (with Desmond Ball and Bill Robinson), Nautilus Institute Special Report, 8 June 2016.
The Antennas of Pine Gap, (with Desmond Ball and Bill Robinson), Nautilus Institute Special Report, 22 February 2016. [High resolution PDF/Low resolution pdf]
Antennas of Pine Gap images gallery, Joint Defence Faciiity Pine Gap, Australian Defence Facilities Briefing Book, Nautilus Institute
Table and photokey of antennas at Pine Gap, Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap, Australian Defence Facilities Briefing Book, Nautilus Institute, 2016.
Managing Operations at Pine Gap, (with Desmond Ball and Bill Robinson), Nautilus Institute, Special Report, 24 November 2015
The SIGINT Satellites of Pine Gap: Conception, Development and in Orbit, (with Desmond Ball and Bill Robinson), Nautilus Institute, Special Reports, 15 October 2015.
The Higher Management of Pine Gap, (with Desmond Ball and Bill Robinson), Nautilus Institute, Special Report, 18 August 2015.
The militarisation of Pine Gap: Organisations and Personnel, (with Desmond Ball and Bill Robinson), Nautilus Institute, Special Report, 14 August 2015.
The corporatisation of Pine Gap, (Desmond Ball, Bill Robinson, and Philip Dorling), Nautilus Institute, NAPSNet Special Reports, 24 June 2015.
Expanded Communications Satellite Surveillance and Intelligence Activities Utilising Multi-beam Antenna Systems, (with Desmond Ball, Duncan Campbell, and Bill Robinson), Nautilus Institute, NAPSNet Special Reports, 28 May 2015
Home Base’, Australian Financial Review, 23 January 2015, (pp.1R, 6R-7R) [PDFs: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3; text version]
The Tools of Owatatsumi: Japan’s Ocean Surveillance and Coastal Defence Capabilities, (with Desmond Ball), Canberra, ANU Press, 2015.
Indonesia, Australia and Edward Snowden: ambiguous and shifting asymmetries of power, Nautilus Institute, Special Report, 29 November 2013; expanded and updated version: ‘Indonesia, Australia and the Edward Snowden Legacy: Shifting asymmetries of power’, The Asia Pacific Journal, Vol. 12, Issue 10, No. 3, March 10, 2014; abridged version: ‘Power asymmetries and Australian hubris: Indonesia, Australia and Edward Snowden’, Arena Magazine, No, 127, December 2013- January 2014, pp. 19-22.
“Possibilities and effects of a nuclear missile attack on Pine Gap“, Australian Defence Facilities, Nautilus Institute, 30 October 2013
“ASD Cocos Islands Signals Intelligence Station“, Australian Defence Facilities, Nautilus Institute, 5 October 2013.
“Bamaga Signals Intelligence Station“, Australian Defence Facilities, Nautilus Institute, 1 August 2013.
The “Joint Facilities” revisited – Desmond Ball, democratic debate on security, and the human interest, Special Report, Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability, 12 December 2012 (abridged earlier version appeared as American bases in Australia revisited, in Brendan Taylor, Nicholas Farrelly and Sheryn Lee (eds.) Insurgent Intellectual: Essays in honour of Professor Desmond Ball, (ISEAS, December 2012)
“US joint facilities are a threat to the national interest“, The Conversation, 4 December 2012
he Transformation of the JASDF’s Intelligence and Surveillance Capabilities for Air and Missile Defence, (with Desmond Ball), Security Challenges, Vol. 8 No. 3 (Spring 2012) (Online addendum: JADGE Surveillance Stations)
North by North West Cape: Eyes on China, Austral Policy Forum 10-02A, 14 December 2010; abridged version as Joint operations, Arena Magazine, December 2010
In the Miura Listening Room: Radio Surveillance under Japan’s ‘Friendly Authoritarianism’, (with Desmond Ball), JPRI Working Paper No. 103 (September 2004).
“East Timor and the Crisis of the Indonesian Intelligence State“, in Bitter Flowers, Sweet Flowers: East Timor, Indonesia and the World Community [edited by Richard Tanter, Mark Selden and Stephen Shalom]. (New York: Rowman and Littlefield; Sydney: Pluto Press, 2001).
Intelligence Agencies and Third World Militarization: A Case Study of Indonesia, 1966-1989, with Special Reference to South Korea, 1961-1989, PhD dissertation, Monash University.
“Oil, IGGI and US hegemony: the global pre-conditions for Indonesian rentier-militarization”, in Arief Budiman (ed.), State and Society in Contemporary Indonesia, (Clayton: Victoria: Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University, 1991), pp.51-93.
“The totalitarian ambition: the Indonesian intelligence and security apparatus”, in Arief Budiman (ed.), State and Society in Contemporary Indonesia, (Clayton: Victoria: Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University, 1991), pp.215-288.
“After Kopkamtib – Indonesia’s intelligence empire“, Inside Indonesia, April 1989.