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Austral Peace and Security Network (APSNet)
Thursday 3 November, 2005
Bi-weekly report from the Nautilus Institute at RMIT, Australia.
- NT Nuclear Waste Dump Jumps First Hurdle
- BHP Plans Uranium Mine Upgrade
- Balance Is Crucial For Anti-Terrorism Bill
- State Shut The Door On Civil Liberties
- Police On Standby For Terror Cell Raids
APSNet Policy Forum Online: Paul Monk, Rethinking China: Australia and the World.
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NT Nuclear Waste Dump Jumps First Hurdle
AAP, Age, 2005-11-02Controversial laws have been passed by the House of Representatives to clear the way for a nuclear waste dump to be built in the Northern Territory despite widespread opposition.
Of related interest: Northern Territory Government “No Nuclear Wasted Dump” Web site.
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BHP Plans Uranium Mine Upgrade
AAP, SMH, 2005-11-02BHP Billiton expects growing global demand for nuclear power to ensure viability for a proposed $5 billion upgrade at its Olympic Dam copper-uranium mine.
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Balance Is Crucial For Anti-Terrorism Bill
Derek Woolner AFR, 2005-11-03What is really needed are strong performance incentives for the security services, for their performance will determine whether the legislation* makes us more, or less, secure. *subscription required
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State Shut The Door On Civil Liberties
Patrick Keyzer SMH 2005-11-02A Queensland ruling shows a challenge to the new detention laws is likely to fail.
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Police On Standby For Terror Cell Raids
Tom Allard, Marian Wilkinson, Joseph Kerr, SMH, 2005-11-03Security agencies are poised to swoop on alleged terrorist cells throughout the country once Parliament passes an amendment to the anti-terrorism laws today.
APSNet Policy Forum Online: Paul Monk, Rethinking China: Australia and the World.
From Paul Monk‘s speech at the launch of his book Thunder From the Silent Zone: Rethinking China (Scribe, October 2005).
“My subject is rethinking China, and how such rethinking is likely to impact on Australia and the world at large, or at the very least Australia’s place in the world. I would like to dwell on three things. The nature of ‘rethinking’; the nature of ‘China’ and the challenges for Australia, as regards its place in a world in which China is becoming a more and more substantial presence. The bedrock idea is that the complexities in the equation, the challenges China faces, the constraints on the growth of its power in the 21st century world and the changes it may well undergo in the years ahead should compel us to think, at a minimum, in terms of four different kinds of scenarios for China’s future. I call these four scenarios mutation, maturation, militarisation and metastasis. Each is distinct in both its nature and its implications from the tacit standard, uncritical scenario, which I call the Linear Ascent Model or LAM.”
Read the full speech: Rethinking China: Australia and the World