In May 1974 several hundred people travelled to North West Cape from around Australia to protest and occupy the base and "symbolically reclaiming it for the Australian people". During the occupation the Eureka Flag was flown over the base with fifty-five people arrested during the protest. Songs composed in the campaign against North West Cape and other US bases in Australia include We don't want no Yankee Bases and Omega Doodle which have become part of the Australian folkloric tradition.Warren Fahey, The Balls of Bob Menzies: Australian Political Songs 1900-1980, pp288-289, pp299-300, Angus and Robertson Publishers, 1989, From 1967 until October 1992 a USN Naval Security Group Detachment was stationed at the facility.
