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, November 23, 2006

  1. Howard May Lift Iraq Troop Numbers
  2. Crisis Looms in Dili as Wet Approaches
  3. Alternatives Sought to Papua Border Militarization
  4. Australia May Expand NATO Relationship
  5. Australia Researching Missile Defence
  6. Thumbs Down on Nuclear Power
  7. India and China in 10-Point Ties Pact
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, November 20, 2006

  1. Indonesia Pursues $1 Billion Arms Deal with Russia
  2. Evacuees Tell How Tonga Erupted into Violence
  3. Fiji’s Power-Sharing Arrangement on Brink of Collapse
  4. New Afghan Police Force Deployed
  5. India Tests Medium Range Missile
  6. No Need for Cloaking Effect with Indonesian Ties
  7. Australia: Uses of Layered Identities
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, November 16, 2006

  1. Papua Question Hangs over New Pact with Indonesia
  2. Australian Aircraft Could Help Safeguard Strait of Malacca, Says Malaysia
  3. Fiji Army Opposes Foreign Intervention
  4. Solomons: Aussie Troops Face Sex Claims
  5. Reconciliation on East Timor Streets
  6. Violence in Afghanistan Increasing
  7. Documents Show Austrade Knew of AWB’s Link to Alia
  8. Australia Implements UN Security Council Sanctions against North Korea
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, November 13, 2006

  1. Diabetes ‘Threatens to Wipe Out Aborigines’
  2. Ruddock Warned of ‘War Crime’
  3. Alkatiri Leaves Dili after Probe
  4. US Intelligence Reveals Extent of Iraq Carnage
  5. Insight Afghanistan: Karzai Discusses Worsening Security in Interview
  6. Myanmar: The UNSC Backlash?
  7. Philippines Killings Rise, and U.S. Firms Speak Out
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, November 9, 2006

  1. Australia to Help Indonesia Go Nuclear, Control Papua
  2. Nuclear Debate: Part One: The Plan
  3. Bush Ousts Embattled Rumsfeld; Democrats near Control of Senate
  4. US Election: What does it mean for Iraq?
  5. Who’s the Real Boss of Indonesia: Yudhoyono or Golkar’s Kalla?
  6. Chiefs Meet without Fiji President
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, November 6, 2006

  1. Australia Reinforces Fiji Mission Amid Unrest
  2. Iraq: Hell Moves a Step Closer
  3. U.S. Seeks Silence on Secret CIA Prisons
  4. China-US War a Risk: Defence
  5. Australia’s Uranium Export Safeguards Found Wanting
  6. Maritime Interdiction of North Korean WMD Trade: Who Will Do What?
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, November 2, 2006

  1. Dili Gangs Linked To Political Players
  2. Perils of Peacekeeping
  3. Fiji: High Noon in Suva
  4. Anger in Papua over Murder Trial, Presence of Freeport
  5. Solomons: We Love RAMSI, But…
  6. US: Military Charts Movement of Conflict in Iraq Toward Chaos
  7. The Media’s Role in the Fight Against Terrorism
  8. Stern Gives Revolution the Green Light
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, October 30, 2006

  1. Aussies Imprisoned in Yemen
  2. E Timor to Probe ADF Slayings Rumours
  3. Iraq: Tipping Point for War’s Supporters?
  4. Afghanistan War is ‘Cuckoo’, Says Blair’s Favourite General
  5. Bullets Withheld from Fijian Army
  6. Climate’s Last Chance
  7. Amnesty Chief wants Hicks to Come Home
  8. PNG: Government Must End Continuing Police Brutality against Children
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, October 26, 2006

  1. ‘Out of Iraq in 18 Months’
  2. Timor Tensions Build as Army Makes Push
  3. Pacific Leaders Agree to RAMSI Review
  4. PNG: Government Recalls Officers
  5. Resign, Army Reminds Fiji Government
  6. US Encourages Pacific Nations to Deploy Peacekeepers
  7. Germany in Radical Shake-Up of Military
  8. ASIO Forms Data Processing Arm
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, October 23, 2006

  1. Australia: Spies’ Iraq Outlook Bleak
  2. The Genteel Revolt that Is Remaking US Policy on Iraq
  3. Australia Would Join N Korea Blockade
  4. Technical Analysis of the DPRK Nuclear Test
  5. Australia Condemned over Solomons Raid
  6. Outbreak of Violence Halted in East Timor
  7. Secret Service: Australia’s Spy Masters Show their Face
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