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ABC Radio National News: Pacific security report reiterates economic failures
Linda Mottram, Canberra
Last Updated: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:24:00 +1100
An Australian Senate committee has reported on its inquiry into security in the Pacific, finding the core problem is the Pacific... Read more...
ABC Radio National: Australian Senate report on Pacific Security
Updated February 25, 2010 17:51:16
An Australian Senate inquiry has found that if Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Island states did more to grow their economies, their security capacity and outlook ... Read more...
Speech in the Senate: Report of Inquiry into Security Challenges facing Papua New Guineau and the island states of the southwest Pacific
Senator TROOD (Queensland) (11:29 AM) —I present the final report of the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee on security challenges facing Papua New Guinea and the island states of... Read more...
Rudd charts terrorism strategy
CANBERRA – The risk of an Australian committing a terrorist act is one of this country’s key security threats, according to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
Flanked by Attorney-General Robert McClell... Read more...
Australian spy agency turns up heat on people smugglers
ABC Radio National - Asia Pacific Program
The Australian government is turning up the heat on people smugglers with an announcement that it wants to widen the brief of the country's security intellig... Read more...
People-smuggling penalties bolstered
Australian Financial Review
ASIO will get broader powers to deal with people smuggling and the federal government will toughen penalties for offenders after an influx of asylum-seeker boats.
Announc... Read more...