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, September 22, 2008

  1. RI, Australia to Co-Produce Weaponry
  2. Afghan Civilian Deaths: Joint Inquiry Ordered
  3. Human Rights Watch Raises Renewed Concerns over Abuse by PNG Police
  4. Foreign Troops Needed in East Timor for at Least another Year: PM
  5. Afghanistan Opium: A Growing Concern
  6. Pakistan: the New Frontline
  7. Second Khushab Plutonium Production Reactor Nears Completion
  8. Pacific Islands: Beyond Good Governance
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, September 18, 2008

  1. Ties with Russia at turning point: Rudd
  2. Base Deal in New Caledonia
  3. Defence to Move to Countering Terror: Robert McClelland
  4. When War Criminals Hide Out in the Open
  5. Tomgram: Tariq Ali, Has the U.S. Invasion of Pakistan Begun?
  6. NATO Tries To Reduce Afghan Casualties
  7. Is It Really Too Dangerous To Downgrade The Terrorist Threat?
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, September 15, 2008

  1. Santos Stuck in Mudflow Controversy
  2. Outcry in Indonesia over Australian Treatment of Fishermen
  3. $151m Planes a ‘Disaster’
  4. Remote Australia on the Verge of a ‘Failed State’
  5. Improving Development and Respecting Sovereignty: Australia and Papua New Guinea
  6. Restraining Nuclear Arms in the Asian Century: an Agenda for Australia
  7. Asia’s Arms No Cause for Alarm
  8. How We’re Helping the Philippines in its Dirty War
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, September 11, 2008

  1. Special Forces May Get Infantry Combat Support in Afghanistan
  2. Australia PM Rudd Flags Arms Build-Up
  3. Heat on Russian Uranium Deal
  4. Nuclear Security: What Else Can Australia Do?
  5. Bush Sends More Troops to Afghanistan
  6. Norwegian Govt Fund Blacklists Rio Tinto
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, September 8, 2008

  1. More Diggers Wanted for Afghanistan
  2. U.S. and Pakistan Meet Secretly to Discuss Border Violence
  3. India Uranium Sales Ban Stays
  4. Former Envoy Says We Can Do More on Nuclear Disarmament
  5. Tread Warily Near a Swaggering Bear
  6. Spy Case Note Gone
  7. Younger Australians Wary of ‘US Meddling’
  8. Muslim Unrest in Philippines May Spread to Neighbours: Analysts
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, September 4, 2008

  1. Diggers Locked into Bitter Conflict with No Boundaries
  2. Australian Defence Budget Surges to World’s 13th Largest
  3. Putin’s Ultimatum to Rudd
  4. Dili Investigator Called to Canberra as Evidence of Execution Mounts
  5. The Maritime Self-Defence Force Mission in the Indian Ocean: Afghanistan, NATO and Japan’s Political Impasse
  6. Secret Memo Outlines U.S. Restrictions on Nuclear Deal with India
  7. There’s a Storm Bigger than Terrorism and Only We Can Save Ourselves
  8. People Trafficking: an Update on Australia’s Response
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, September 1, 2008

  1. Top-Level Shake-Up to Bolster National Security
  2. Diggers Repel Taliban Attacks while Building Bridges in Record Time
  3. Soldiers Cleared of Beating Claim
  4. ADF Capability Review: C4ISR (EW)
  5. Afghanistan: On the Cliff-Edge
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, August 28, 2008

  1. New Army Chief Flags Shake-Up to Fight Modern War
  2. ‘Too Few’ Troops Confront Taliban
  3. Afghan Government Obliges NATO to Get Clearance for Air Strikes
  4. Public Opinion in Australia towards Defence, Security and Terrorism
  5. Greenhouse Cops Needed On Planetary Beat
  6. ASEAN Agrees Region to Have Nuclear Power Plants
  7. Pakistan’s Political Turmoil: Musharraf and Beyond
  8. China Civil Society Report: Mass Incidents in China
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, August 25, 2008

  1. UN Report says Timor at Human Rights Crossroads
  2. Rudd Remains Firm on E Timor Guest Workers
  3. Guest Worker Policy to Spread to East Timor
  4. Menace of the Growing Red Fleet
  5. Debating China’s Future
  6. Can I Say, Kevin, it’s not your Best Shot
  7. Asia Could See Growing WMD Threat, Expert Warns
  8. Our Turn to be Heard on Arms Spending
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, August 21, 2008

  1. Seasonal Workers for Australia
  2. Pacific Forum Warns Fiji of Suspension
  3. Science Doesn’t Back Ramos Horta Story
  4. Diggers Play Role in Taliban Leader’s Death
  5. Securing Australia’s Maritime Domain
  6. Philippine Peace Process in Disarray
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