Posted on February 26, 2010
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 th... Read more...
Posted on February 25, 2010
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 the... Read more...
Senator TROOD (Queensland) (11:29 AM) —I present the final report of the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee on security challenge... Read more...
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.... Read more...
Posted on February 24, 2010
ABC Radio National - Asia Pacific Program The Australian government is turning up the heat on people smugglers with an announcement that it wants to ... Read more...
Australian Financial Review ASIO will get broader powers to deal with people smuggling and the federal government will toughen penalties for offender... Read more...
SBS World News - The federal government won't rule out the possibility that UK residents will be subject to tougher visa measures outlined in a new c... Read more...
The Australian & Canberra Times AUSTRALIA could face a diplomatic backlash over new terror measures which force foreign visitors from a handful o... Read more...
PEOPLE smugglers and those who finance them are to face a raft of new fines and extra jail time as the Rudd Government recruits ASIO to help combat th... Read more...
Posted on February 23, 2010
ABC Radio Australia: Asia Pacific Program Terrorism experts say the Australian Government's new counter-terrorism policy fails to act on the threats ... Read more...
The Rudd Government’s counter-terrorism white paper reveals little we didn’t already know and is alarmingly thin on strategic detail, the Chair of the... Read more...
The federal government has almost doubled aid spending on Africa since coming to office, opening Ausaid of- fices and triggering accusations of blata... Read more...
Posted on February 20, 2010
Conservationists applauded yesterday Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's promise to site Japan in the international courts if it does not agree to stop whalin... Read more...
Posted on February 19, 2010
New Foreign Affairs secretary, Dennis Richardson, seems to have set a new accountability record by appearing last Thursday at the Senate Foreign Affai... Read more...
Kevin Rudd’s effort to stop Japanese whaling by promising to launch court action against Japan by November is unlikely to achieve its purpose, and rev... Read more...
Posted on February 18, 2010
Sydney Morning Herald & The Age - AAP "We are going to these games." That's the defiant message from Australian Commonwealth Games off... Read more...
Posted on February 16, 2010
Australian Financial Review The Rudd government's counterterrorism white paper is 14 months behind schedule with cabinet further delaying its release... Read more...
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott opened the LNP campaign office for the newly established Federal Seat of Wright on 12 February 2010. Hajna... Read more...
Posted on February 15, 2010
The relationship between Australia and India has been damaged by a spate of attacks on Indian nationals in Melbourne in recent months, the head of the... Read more...
AUSTRALIAN diplomatic staff based in Kabul will relocate from the high-security US embassy compound to take up new leased premises within months, Sena... Read more...
A fresh inquiry has been called into allegations sailors were running a sex ring aboard HMAS Success after the initial investigation was found to be b... Read more...
Posted on February 14, 2010
THE top brass of the Australian Defence Force have come under fire for spending $22,000 on three helicopters to fly them less than 200km. The... Read more...
Posted on February 11, 2010
Australia's highest military officer has admitted there was a lapse by his officers in the case of East Timorese woman Gracinda da Costa, who died las... Read more...
Australia's military chief has admitted there was a lapse by Australian forces in East Timor, in the case of a woman who died from injuries sustained ... Read more...
Posted on February 10, 2010
The death of an East Timorese woman, hit by an ADF vehicle in Dili on 18th December last year went unnoticed by the Australian Defence Force for almos... Read more...
Posted on February 09, 2010
Almost a year and a half since it was promised, the Rudd Government’s Counter-Terrorism White Paper is still nowhere to be seen, and the Department of... Read more...
Posted on February 05, 2010
THE ADVERTISER - THE chairman of a Senate Committee has slammed Defence over its ``appalling'' treatment of three sailors accused of misconduct ... Read more...
Posted on February 04, 2010
From: AAP February 03, 2010 8:10PM THE Federal Opposition is demanding to know why the Government has published information it is holding on ... Read more...
4 February 2010 Queensland Senator, Russell Trood, has demanded the Government reveal why it has released detailed information about hundreds of susp... Read more...
Posted on February 02, 2010
Senator Trood (Queensland) (6:54 PM) —I rise this evening to make some remarks about the National Library of Australia, which in 2008 celebrated its 4... Read more...
Senator Trood (Queensland) (6:22 PM) —One of the many profound consequences of the terrible terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 was the need for go... Read more...