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, July 6, 2009

  1. Afghanistan: A child, a battle and a place with no name
  2. Afghanistan: Voice of defiance
  3. U.S. faces resentment in Afghan region
  4. Law ‘too harsh’ on Indonesian people-smugglers
  5. PM Kevin Rudd too defensive on China: Paul Keating
  6. Japan envoy wins UN nuclear post
  7. France votes to pay nuclear-testing victims
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, July 2, 2009

  1. $60bn defence hardware plan
  2. SBY implicated in cover up of ambush murder of U.S. citizens
  3. Warning on wave of boat people
  4. East Timor president defends PM
  5. PNG’s climate change head ‘suspended’
  6. Rudd puts a bomb under diplomacy
  7. Aust ‘lacks manpower’ to keep Pacific peace
  8. Time for healing in Iraq: Gillard
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, June 29, 2009

  1. Aussie spy data points to Papua murder cover-up
  2. Indonesia: Military tells watchdog to ‘eat’ report on Papua
  3. Peace is our best defence
  4. Timor PM faces calls to resign
  5. Japan, TNI seek to increase cooperation
  6. Australia has most ecstasy labs: UN
  7. US vote a spur for push on ETS
  8. New radar ready for rollout in Afghanistan
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, June 25, 2009

  1. Experts shoot holes in Kevin Rudd’s defence white paper
  2. Palestinian Authority wants Diggers in Gaza
  3. Legal battle to halt polluting power plants
  4. DMO defends secrecy on industry aid
  5. Unfinished business: Police accountability in Indonesia
  6. Military moves high-tech tools to Afghanistan
  7. In reversal, Kyrgyzstan won’t close a U.S. base
  8. Don’t let torturers off the hook: UN
  9. Australia urged to listen to poorer nations
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, June 22, 2009

  1. Department of Defence moves to bring horizon closer
  2. AFP to launch full probe into banknote firm
  3. $415m bomb-proof Australian embassy for Jakarta
  4. Iraq, AfPak, beyond: the global cost of war
  5. U.S. agencies eye coordinated Afghan “civilian surge”
  6. NATO supply lines in Afghanistan: The search for alternative routes
  7. Chinese give PM Kevin Rudd lesson on neoliberalism
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, June 18, 2009

  1. RAN ships blockaded Chinese arms to Timor
  2. Russia deal hits weapon purge plan
  3. $1.4bn wasted on cancelled Seasprite
  4. Deciding to go to war should not be left to the PM
  5. Defence boss ‘faces a culture of secrecy’
  6. New Afghanistan commander will review troop placements
  7. US drone attacks cloaked in secrecy
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, June 15, 2009

  1. Faulkner wants limited Afghan role
  2. Mission possible: Abort shopping spree
  3. Heat of Afghanistan battle bonds brothers in arms
  4. General David Petraeus flags a change of strategy in Afghanistan
  5. Pakistan calls for help to defeat Taliban
  6. Indonesia: Deteriorating primary defense weapon system
  7. Japanese give POW Joe Coombs a hearing
  8. Mindanao: Poverty on the frontlines
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, June 11, 2009

  1. Vets lifted by call on atomic tests
  2. RI says Washington should take the lead
  3. PNG government defends mine crackdown
  4. More leeway for new U.S. commander in Afghanistan
  5. Hardheads set to whip defence into line
  6. Hypocrisy and people smuggling
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, June 4, 2009

  1. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono steps ups threat in Malaysia sea dispute
  2. Japan plans enhanced space-based missile alert system
  3. Uygur detainees: Canberra caught in diplomatic vice
  4. Pacific Island states win small victory at UN
  5. Civilian deaths jeopardize Afghan war effort: US general
  6. Indonesian smuggling route shut, say police
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, June 1, 2009

  1. Australia joins Somalian piracy fight
  2. Indonesian appeal for more help in stopping boatpeople
  3. Indonesia to buy more jets
  4. Indonesia, Malaysia face off at sea
  5. Australians kill Taliban bomber
  6. All clear, says defence head on war incidents
  7. Pakistan and the “AfPak” strategy
  8. Military jargon led to accidental mortar strike
  9. Japan: Most leaders not told of nuke pact with U.S.
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