State Development Minister Clive Brown captured by US Naval forces...

We've come a long way since mid 2002, when we first got wind of plans by the US Navy to trial the so-called Sea Swap programme. This involves flying new crews out to warships while deployed, rather than taking the ships back to the US.

a boy from Baghdad

Smelling a slice of the US Navy's US$100 billion per year budget, Western Australian Premier Geoff Gallop sent Mark McGowan MLA to Washington to lobby for Western Australia to host the Sea Swap Programme. Unknown to the people of Australia, the WA Government was successful. In January 2003, the first Sea Swap took place.

• WHAT IS SEA SWAP?
  Some detail on what it is, what it could become, and why we oppose it.
• THE LANCELIN DEFENCE TRAINING AREA
  Coveted by the US military as a consequence of their eviction from training areas around the world, bombed by jets from the US Abraham Lincoln in January 2003, unsafe and unwanted...
• DEPLETED URANIUM
  The silent killer that must be banned.
• CONTACT your GOVERNMENT!
  Seen enough? Get on the phone...
• SEA SWAP LINKS
  Find out what the US Navy has in mind, as well as some more local opinions
  

• Download the stop the swap handbook
  (1.4MB PDF file) (Added July 8, 2003)
  
  
• Download the Mark McGowan Report
  Detailed report on what the WA Government has been doing behind your back...downloadable RTF file
• Download the Petition
  To the State Government - please distribute far and wide. We are attempting to have a Parliamentary Committee investigate whether or not this idea is actually in the public interest
• Download the Seas Swap information sheet
  Detailed summary of what we're up against - PDF file 239KB
• Download the Sea Swap flyer
  All the basics - PDF File 99KB