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, February 14, 2008

  1. PM’s Defence Dilemma
  2. Searching for Australia’s Role in Timor
  3. Australian Troops Criticised over Attacks
  4. Aust/US Military: Importance of Collaboration in Counter Terrorism
  5. Defeat a ‘Real Possibility’ in Afghanistan
  6. Iraq: When Should US Troops Leave?
  7. Southeast Asia’s Looming Nuclear Power Industry
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, February 11, 2008

  1. East Timor: Ramos-Horta Stable after Shooting
  2. Minister Delivers NATO Ultimatum
  3. Australia Set to Stay in Nuclear Club
  4. Thailand: Business Leaders Back Nuclear Energy
  5. French Polynesia: Nuclear Test Veterans Are Still Battling
  6. Chinook Detachment Returns to Afghanistan
  7. A Mission Impossible
  8. Policy Forum 08-1A: East Timor: The Crisis Beyond the Coup Attempt – Richard Tanter
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, February 7, 2008

  1. Japan Jittery Over Closer Ties between Australia and China
  2. Australia Condemns Taiwan UN Vote
  3. Aussies Outstay Their East Timor Welcome
  4. Minister to Deliver Warning to NATO
  5. Indonesia and Singapore’s Defense Cooperation Agreement Cancelled
  6. Tough TB Strain ‘Could Reach Qld Shores’
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, February 4, 2008

  1. Timor-Leste: A State of Insecurity
  2. The Nation Builder
  3. RI Nuclear Plan Needs Further Study, Gus Dur
  4. In Iraq, Three Wars Engage U.S. – Shiite Extremists Pose Greatest Challenge, Military Officials Say
  5. Germany Rejects Southern Afghanistan Troop Request
  6. Keeping Our Heads below Water: Australia’s Future Submarine
  7. Standing on Secret Ground
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, January 31, 2008

  1. Defence Chief Baulks at More Diggers for Afghanistan
  2. Billion Dollar Blowouts
  3. Solomons Mission ‘Bogged for Years’
  4. Downer Discusses Suharto’s Role in the Region
  5. Safeguarding Iraqi Oil a Vital Task
  6. Tortured in Thailand
  7. Indonesia’s 100th Bird Flu Death Shows Disease Out of Control: Experts
  8. China, East Timor Sign Cooperation Accord
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, January 24, 2008

  1. Foreign Minister to Visit US and Japan
  2. Putting Diplomacy to the Test
  3. Whalers Refuse to Accept Injunction
  4. Muhammadiyah: Thai Govt Should Use Soft Power in Dealing with the South
  5. North Korea to Close its Embassy in Australia to Save Costs, Diplomat Says
  6. Indonesia’s Ailing Suharto Eludes Court
  7. Further UN Support Crucial in Timor-Leste
  8. Climate Change: Marshalling Asia to Act
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, January 21, 2008

  1. Rudd to Shake Up National Security
  2. Report Warns E Timor Could Relapse Into Unrest
  3. Diggers ‘Let Down’ Dutch Allies in Deadly Battle with Taliban
  4. Frontier Insurgency Spills into a Pakistani City
  5. Brisbane – Australia’s ‘Counter-Terror Hub’
  6. Labour Closes Door for Unskilled Workers
  7. PNG: Moran Landowners Give Govt 48 Hours
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, January 17, 2008

  1. People Smuggler Blocks to Continue, Says Minister
  2. The ‘War on Terror’ Moves East
  3. Solomons Wants Bigger Role in RAMSI
  4. RI, China to Conduct Joint Military Training
  5. Indonesia, Iran to Cooperate on Bird Flu, HIV/AIDS Research
  6. Peace Hopes Fade in S Philippines
  7. Aussie Jobs ‘Could Aid’ East Timorese
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, January 14, 2008

  1. Australia to Review Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet Purchase
  2. Iraq Pullout Talks Under Way: General
  3. Deaths in Iraq: The Numbers Game, Revisited
  4. Australia Tracks Japan Whalers
  5. Building a Real Rapport with Pacific Islanders
  6. The Pakistan-Afghanistan Abyss
  7. Japan PM Forces Naval Bill Approval
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, December 13, 2007

  1. New Drive to Talk Burma into Reform
  2. US Intelligence Personnel Tap Indonesian Phones
  3. Dutch Pound Taliban Positions
  4. Taliban Regroup After Losing City
  5. British to Hand Over Basra in Days
  6. The War on Terror After Iraq: Report of an Independent Task Force
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