Why do protests keep happening at the Australian-US Defence facility Pine Gap near Alice Springs?

A group of protesters today blocked access to the highly secretive Pine Gap military facility in Central Australia. It’s the second protest outside the joint Australian-US Defence facility in just over a month. Protesters say they’re aiming to prevent workers from doing their work at the site and are calling for it to be closed for good. Here’s why protests keep happening at Pine Gap. About 20 kilometres outside Alice Springs, Pine Gap’s operations are shrouded in secrecy. ( Four Corners ) What happened? This morning, a group of about 20 protesters calling themselves Mparntwe for Palestine set up a…