Semi-Weekly Bulletin

The Austral Peace and Security Network (APSNet) Semi-Weekly Bulletin covered critical national and regional security issues, broadly understood, in Australia and the surrounding region. Archives from 2005 until 2010.

APSNet, Semi-Weekly Bulletin

APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, August 10, 2009

  1. Rio spied for six years: China
  2. Australia, Indonesia in carbon trading plan
  3. Call for licence to spy on citizens
  4. A failure to deal with Fiji blots regional forum’s copybook
  5. Migration, security linked: MP
  6. US court clears way for class action against big miner
  7. [Afghanistan] Militants ‘waiting out the coalition’
  8. Military says it’s happy to assist police, but wants role spelled out
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, August 6, 2009

  1. Olympic Dam economics must be for the greater good
  2. Talisman Sabre military exercises, war and the environment
  3. Fretilin criticises Dili arms deal with Jakarta
  4. [East Timor] Campos’s crimes continued
  5. Islanders’ choice: integrate or emigrate
  6. Infection risk spurs Torres Strait review
  7. A tighter net: strengthening the Proliferation Security Initiative
  8. US faces huge bill for Afghan security
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, August 3, 2009

  1. Burma’s nuclear bomb alive and ticking
  2. John Faulkner won’t meet arms dealers
  3. Hu case would breach Australian law: China
  4. Iraq experience helps stem the growth of evil flowers in Afghanistan
  5. Afghan, Pakistani conflicts spilling into Central Asian states?
  6. Flag lowered as last 12 Diggers leave Iraq
  7. Mine killings put a vital treaty at risk
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, July 30, 2009

  1. The company with the right contacts
  2. [Solomon Islands] Aiming higher
  3. Afghanistan and Iraq: western wars, genocidal risks
  4. More US troops may be needed in Afghanistan, says Pentagon advisor
  5. Taliban issues code of conduct
  6. US envoy: most Taliban funds come from overseas
  7. Security checks at ports not up to scratch
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, July 27, 2009

  1. Death inquiry reveals Afghan troop failings
  2. MoD sends 125 troops to Afghanistan after heavy losses
  3. Mini-reactors shrink nuclear threat
  4. Pacific Islanders cry for help
  5. Corruption fighters rouse resistance in Indonesia
  6. Indonesia: The hotel bombings
  7. India launches its first nuclear sub
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, July 23, 2009

  1. PM Kevin Rudd told nuclear is best hope by Rio Tinto
  2. Pullout could lead to civil war, defence force chief warns
  3. Troops training plan to limit civilian deaths in Afghanistan
  4. Rudd to toughen terror laws
  5. Into the firing line
  6. Clinton cites concerns of arms aid to Myanmar
  7. New government in New Caledonia
  8. [Indonesia] House approves Rp 5.5t for antiterror
  9. Two shot in latest Freeport attack in Papua
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, July 20, 2009

  1. Terror act will justify clamp on hardliners
  2. Defense Minister: budget boost mostly for upkeep
  3. Who killed Drew Grant?
  4. Afghan link is ill-timed rhetoric
  5. Police to be armed for Afghan job
  6. Courted by Europe? Advancing Australia’s relations with the European Union in the new security environment
  7. More talks not troops, says President Hamid Karzai
  8. Chinese interest in Lynas raises strategic issues
  9. Stop interfering, China tells Australians
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, July 16, 2009

  1. Secretive arms tycoon behind new uranium mine
  2. RAAF’s early-warning radar aircraft back on track
  3. RI Navy cooperating with USPACOM
  4. Police deny bullets removed from Australian’s body
  5. Jose Ramos Horta guards ‘fled rebels’
  6. Hu case poses reality check for Australia
  7. Mounting casualties in Afghanistan spur concern
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, July 13, 2009

  1. President backed Rio spy probe
  2. Freeport rocked by Papua killings
  3. Government to raise defense budget by 20 percent
  4. U.S. general sees afghan army, police insufficient
  5. Dutch exit vexes ally
  6. Afghanistan’s twisting path
  7. New-breed RAAF fighter may see Afghanistan action
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, July 9, 2009

  1. Afghan asylum-seekers ‘rescued’ off Indonesia after AFP tip-off
  2. Australian was spying, says China
  3. Indonesia: A runaway winner,
  4. PNG bank closure cripples province
  5. Govt urged to front up on climate funds
  6. Fugitive former Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra’s secret Fiji talks
  7. No cap on troops for Afghanistan
  8. Crossing the Helmand
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