- Three Quaker Grannies set up their tea and lamingtons at the gates of Shoalwater Bay Training Base in Central Queensland and wait for military personnel to meet with them to have dialogue about peace in the Quaker tradition.
- The Quaker Grannies for Peace is a documentary by twice Academy award nominated filmmaker David Bradbury. It is based on the action of three women who challenged the combined might of the Australian and US military over a cup of tea and lamingtons at the Shoalwater Bay Training Area during the Talisman Sabre exercise. Talisman Sabre is a joint US-AUS military exercise that takes place every two years in Australia, primarily on the central coast of Queensland at Shoalwater Bay, north of Rockhampton. The Talisman Sabre exercises are some of the world's largest military operations. Talisman Sabre 2015 involved 34,000 US and Australian personnel (22,000 US and 12,000 Aussie) engaged in nuclear-weapons-capable land, sea and air warfare practice. As with the 'knitting nannas' there is a respect by fellow activists and even the authorities for community elders engaging in civil disobedience or as Jo Vallentine (a Quaker Granny) calls it 'holy obedience' -- following a higher order when the law of the day does not do us justice.—Frontline Films
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