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 19, 2006

  1. UN Commission of Inquiry Issues Report on Violent Crisis that Shook Timor-Leste
  2. Moti Affair Offers a Lesson for a Short-Sighted Neighbour
  3. Iraq: A War that Has Run Out of Control
  4. Washington’s Worst-Kept Secret: Changes are Coming in Iraq Policy
  5. Straight Talk about Japan’s Nuclear Option
  6. Are We Ready for Nuclear War?
  7. Russian Company to Build First RI Nuclear Power Plant
  8. ASIO Expands to Counter Increased Threats
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, October 16, 2006

  1. Iraq Has Boosted Terrorists – Cosgrove Turnaround
  2. PNG Leader Told: You’re Not Welcome
  3. SAS Terror Hunt Risks Manila Pact
  4. Another Activist Cleric Is Killed in Philippines
  5. Australia, Indonesia and the World: Public Opinion and Foreign Policy
  6. Briefing Note: Government Reponses to Citizen Claims of Rendition and Torture
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, October 12, 2006

  1. Dr Strangelove in Pyongyang
  2. Over the Horizon: Long Term Implications of Australia’s Engagement in the ‘Arc of Instability’
  3. Charting a Course within Societies in Flux
  4. Timor Leader Told to Stand Down
  5. Iraqi War Deaths Number 655,000: Report
  6. Afghanistan: The Long Shadow of the Past
  7. Afghanistan: Briefing Notes
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, October 9, 2006

  1. PM Condemns N Korea Nuclear Test
  2. Bring Troops Home from Iraq Now: Poll
  3. A New Diplomacy over Papua
  4. Indonesia: Acquittal Bolsters Impunity for Munir’s Murder
  5. Charges over Timor Violence
  6. Climate Change: Shock Report
  7. Pope Urges Australians: Confront Aboriginal Pain
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, October 5, 2006

  1. Burma Wants Help Over Terrorists
  2. Howard’s Dire Warning for Pyongyang
  3. British Troops in Secret Truce with the Taliban
  4. World: Arms Sales Record as Firms Duck Controls with ‘Flat-Pack’ Weapons
  5. Indonesia: Arms Procurement Still Chaotic: Analysts, Politicians
  6. BHP Declares Local Uranium Industry Not Viable
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, October 2, 2006

  1. Most Iraqis Favor Immediate U.S. Pullout, Polls Show
  2. Iraq at the Gates of Hell: George Bush’s Iraq in 21 Questions
  3. Australia: Responsive, Only to his Political Masters
  4. Afghan Attacks Up Despite Truce
  5. Terrorist Nuclear Weapon Construction: How Difficult?
  6. Australia Urged to Step in as China Stokes Illegal Logging
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, September 28, 2006

  1. The Bush Administration is Running Out of Troops, Money and Ideas
  2. It May Take 10 Years, But Afghan War Winnable: Defence Chief
  3. The ADF Rejects the Allegations Made By the Taliban
  4. Pakistan on Edge
  5. China Now Route of Choice for Traffickers
  6. Solomon Islands: Pacific: Tangled Webs
  7. East Timor Drama Had No Hidden Agenda
  8. Indonesia Proposes Joint Sea Patrols to Prevent Illegal Fishing in PNG
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, September 25, 2006

  1. Indonesia: SBY Blasted For Slow Pace of Military Reforms
  2. Departing UN Envoy Warns Timor-Leste of the Danger of ‘Black Hole’ of Conflict
  3. Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terrorism Threat
  4. Total war: This is an Era of Difficult Choices that No One Wants to Make
  5. Pakistan ‘Not Doing Enough’ to Help Diggers
  6. India Pushes to the Brink on Uranium
  7. Fiji’s Military Leader Says He Will Not Be Silenced
  8. Army’s $500m Tanks in the Wars
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, September 21, 2006

  1. Australia, Japan Act against Groups with N Korea Links
  2. Downer Tips Iran Action
  3. Thailand: Howard Deplores Takeover but Military Ties Remain
  4. Afghanistan and Iraq: Troop Withdrawal a Mistake, Downer
  5. Australia Probes Soldiers’ Iraq Videos
  6. East Timor: Evidence Mounts against Gusmão
  7. The Killer Catching a Ride with HIV
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, September 18, 2006

  1. Afghanistan: Not the Best Strategy
  2. Diggers’ Duties in Iraq Extended
  3. Keelty: Terrorism not Fault of Muslims
  4. Australian: Chief of Army Philippines Visit
  5. Solomon Islands PM Drops Einfeld
  6. Warning on Travel to East Timor
  7. Are the Wharves our Weakest Link?
  8. Iranian Nuclear Issue Putting the Region, Global Peace at Risk
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