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, October 27, 2008

  1. Intelligence Gaps Blamed For Fatal Afghan Gunfight
  2. Habib Says ASIO Linked To Torture
  3. The Seven-Year Stitch
  4. Afghans Sent Home to Die
  5. Pakistan Will Give Arms to Tribal Militias
  6. East Timor Tries To Buy Some Time
  7. The Thin Green Line Climate Change and Australian Policing
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, October 23, 2008

  1. Canberra Asked For Help on N Korea
  2. ADF East Timor Deployment to Reduce – A Positive Sign of Stability
  3. Defence Budget to Keep Its Increase
  4. Diggers Start New Role in Afghanistan
  5. Afghan Military Victory ‘Unlikely’
  6. Meltdown Boosts PM’s Asia Pacific Vision
  7. Five Arrested Over Foiled Indonesia Bomb Plot
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, October 20, 2008

  1. Climate Change Expert Worries Financial Crisis Will be ‘Excuse’ to  Delay Action
  2. Several Thousand Papuans March for Independence
  3. Study Finds Decreased Public Support for RAMSI
  4. Security Beneath the Waves
  5. NATO Pessimism: The West Is at a Loss in Afghanistan
  6. China to Help Pakistan Build Two More Nuclear Power Plants
  7. Imperial Pretensions and the Financial Crunch
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, October 16, 2008

  1. Rudd Breaks Pledge on Iran
  2. Defence Spending Caught in the Crossfire
  3. Reversal of Fortune Leaves Kabul under Taliban’s Thumb
  4. A Mad Scramble over Afghanistan
  5. Report Predicts Chronic Food Shortage in E Timor
  6. Mistrust Threatens a Hard-Won Peace
  7. Rise of the Rest: The Challenges of the New World Order
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, October 13, 2008

  1. Diggers Work in Afghanistan Vital: Smith
  2. Fears of Unrest Swirl in Troubled East Timor
  3. East Timor Prosecutor Blames President over Trial Delay
  4. Wars without End
  5. Water Fiasco Looms for POM Naval Base
  6. PNG Govt Set to Toughen Gun Laws
  7. US Controls Bird Flu Vaccines over Bioweapon Fears
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, October 9, 2008

  1. Ex-envoy Counters Rudd on Arms Race
  2. New U.S. Intelligence Report Warns ‘Victory’ Not Certain in Iraq
  3. Fitzgibbon Echoes Frustrations over Afghanistan War
  4. Modest Objectives in War on Terror
  5. Germans Boost Afghan Role
  6. High Court Dismisses Fiji Coup Case
  7. Implications of Climate Change for Australian Fisheries and Aquaculture: A Preliminary Assessment
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, October 6, 2008

  1. Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan
  2. War on Taliban Cannot be Won, says Army Chief
  3. ASNO: Nuclear Watchdog Feels the Heat over Russia Deal
  4. Military Losing Edge: Combet
  5. The War on Terror: Seven Years On (Pt 2)
  6. Rise of the Rest: The Challenges of the New World Order
  7. PNG: Officers Back – But Not on the Beat
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, October 2, 2008

  1. Defence White Paper to Decide Future of Patrol Boat
  2. Diggers Nab another Taliban Insurgent
  3. British Envoy Says Mission in Afghanistan Is Doomed, According to Leaked Memo
  4. Japan Premier Aso Promises Terrorism Fight, Growth in UN Speech
  5. Timor Police Tensions Worry Authorities
  6. UN Told of Coup Cycle, Peacekeeping Link
  7. Iraq: Is This a ‘Victory’?
  8. US Senate Passes Indian Nuclear Deal
  9. Balancing Competitive Demands: A Contribution to the 2008 Defence White Paper Community Consultation Process
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, September 29, 2008

  1. Police Urged to Arrest East Timor Collaborator
  2. Navy Has Right to Fire at Illegal Fishing Boats
  3. Ambush in Papua: Lost in the Fog
  4. Afghanistan Slips under a Blind Eye
  5. Australia and the World: Public Opinion and Foreign Policy
  6. Air Force May Have to Forgo Hopes for Joint Strike Fighter
  7. Indonesia’s Statement at 63rd UN General Assembly
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, September 25, 2008

  1. A second nuclear age
  2. Indonesia: Survey sees progress in graft fight
  3. U.N. Security Council Unanimously Approves Extension of NATO-Led Forces in Afghanistan
  4. Gates cautions against rapid US buildup in Afghanistan
  5. Projects group ‘should split from Defence’
  6. Two Papuan asylum seekers return home
  7. Study Of Satellite Imagery Casts Doubt On Surge’s Success In Baghdad
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