APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, January 25, 2007

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Austral Peace and Security Network (APSNet)

Twice weekly report from the Nautilus Institute at RMIT, Australia.

Thursday 25 January 2007

  1. Solomons PM Stands Firm on Arming Guards
  2. Terrorists Open New Front in Indonesia
  3. Indonesia: Drilling Likely Cause of Java Mud Flow: Study
  4. Interim Fiji AG Wants Military to Use Public Order Act
  5. Iraq: Analysts See a Chance for Maliki Success
  6. Protecting Australia against Terrorism 2006
  7. Row over Anti-Rocket Defence
  8. Bird Flu: Risks, Laws and Rights

Austral Policy Forum 07-01A: National Security and the Failed State in Remote Australia – Michael C.Dillon

 

  1. Solomons PM Stands Firm on Arming Guards, ABC, 2007-01-23

    Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare says RAMSI’s decision in 2003 to abolish the three armed units of the Solomons police was a serious mistake, and if that reflects the kind of law enforcement agency RAMSI wants for his country, RAMSI has no place in the Solomon Islands. RAMSI special coordinator Tim George says that RAMSI believes neither the country’s police nor its general population is ready for re-arming.

     

  2. Terrorists Open New Front in Indonesia, Lindsay Murdoch, SMH, 2007-01-24

    Sidney Jones of ICG, says dormant Java-based cells of Jemaah Islamiah seem to have been reactivated by US and Australian-trained anti-terrorist squad attacks on militant strongholds near the Sulawesi town of Poso, 1700 kilometres east of Jakarta.

  3. Drilling Likely Cause of Java Mud Flow: Study, Lindsay Murdoch, Age, 2007-01-25

    A mud volcano that erupted in Indonesia, causing an unprecedented environmental disaster, was most probably caused by drilling for gas by a consortium that includes the Australian company Santos, according to scientists. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said this month the compensation bill could be about $A536 million.

  4. Interim Fiji AG Wants Military to Use Public Order Act, RNZI, 2007-01-24

    Fiji’s interim attorney general, Aiyaz Sayed-Khayum, has asked the military to liaise with police to use the Public Order Act to charge people believed to be making inciteful comments. This [reportedly] follows an incident when soldiers apprehended a Suva lawyer to caution him about statements he made on radio. Mr Sayed-Khayum says he suggested to the military that it would be better to take these matters to the police.

     

  5. Analysts See a Chance for Maliki Success, Walter Pincus, Washington Post, 2007-01-24

    The draft of a new National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq says it will be “very difficult” but “not impossible” for the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to succeed in providing better governance in that war-ravaged country, a top intelligence official told a US Senate committee.

     

  6. Protecting Australia against Terrorism 2006, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, 2006

    This publication updates the 2004 edition of Protecting Australia Against Terrorism and describes the Australian Government’s counter-terrorism strategy. Australia’s Ambassador for Counter-Terrorism, based in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, is responsible for the development and implementation of Australia’s international counter terrorism agenda.

  7. Row Over Anti-Rocket Defence, David Nason and Simon Hayes, Australian, 2006-01-20

    Alexander Downer has raised the prospect of Australian commercial airliners being ordered to carry missile evasion technology to protect against terrorists using shoulder-launched rockets. Airlines are reluctant to wear costs to defend against attacks the Government admits are unlikely.

  8. Bird Flu: Risks, Laws and Rights, Ian Townsend, ABC, 2007-01-21 [transcript]

    Scientists, lawyers, politicians, security forces – everyone’s walking a fine line with avian flu, between the rights of the individual and the rights of the wider public. When a pandemic happens each of us will be on our own, as the authorities look at the big picture.

Austral Policy Forum 07-01A: National Security and the Failed State in Remote Australia – Michael C Dillon

Michael C. Dillon, Australian policy analyst, writes that, “the implications for national security which flow from policy outcomes in the Indigenous domain in Australia, particularly in remote Australia, are more significant than generally recognised.” This is true in both positive and negative terms. Dillon argues that negative impacts for Australian national security derive from the “longstanding economic and social disadvantage faced by Indigenous citizens” and “the apparent incapacity of governments to both address the disadvantage and effectively ensure order and good governance.” In important respects, the “‘failed-state’ policy-set” that Australian governments have applied to the Pacific is in fact relevant to the Indigenous domain, with significant implications for national security policy. “Such an expanded policy framework would include addressing the under-investment in the Indigenous-owned estate.”

 

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