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, April 20, 2006

  1. Islanders still unable to think as a nation
  2. Editorial: Cool heads needed over West Papua
  3. Papua New Guinea (PNG) to intensify joint patrol in borders
  4. Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) set to stay in Iraq after June
  5. Australian troops ready for Afghanistan
  6. Jet fighter costs go skyward as price of rival nosedives
  7. A blight on our reputation; a potential blow to security
  8. Christian Pine Gap protesters hampered by “secrecy”
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, April 13, 2006

  1. Prime Minister Slams Door on Boatpeople
  2. Border Patrols to Deter Papuans
  3. Military Prepares Country Bunker, New Joint Operations Command
  4. Australia Named as Extinction ‘Hotspot’
  5. China’s Emergence: Implications for Australia
  6. Precarious State: Afghanistan and the International and Australian Response
  7. Special Report: East Timor Military Turmoil
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, April 10, 2006

  1. Canberra Backing Push for Papuan Autonomy
  2. Jakarta Kept in the Dark
  3. NZ Troops to Stay in Afghanistan
  4. U.S. Study Paints Somber Portrait of Iraqi Discord
  5. Nelson Takes the Long View
  6. Companies Urge Action on Warming
  7. Burden Sharing in the Straits, Not So Straight Forward
  8. Austral Policy Forum: Uranium sales to India: What should Australia’s price be? – Ron Huisken
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, April 6, 2006

  1. Joint Naval Patrols with Indonesia Mooted
  2. Letter from Indonesia: The Papuans Say, This Land and its Ores are Ours
  3. Indonesian Diplomacy: Much Ado about Nothing
  4. The Nuclear Obsession That Will Hurt Us
  5. Defence Casts Doubt on Building Warships Here
  6. Operation Breakwater – Protecting our Borders Whilst Netting 23 Suspected Illegal Fishing Vessels
  7. Embassy Probes Professor’s Death in Iraq
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, April 3, 2006

  1. Australian, Dutch Forces to Join under NATO Umbrella
  2. Papuans ‘Vanishing’ after Mine Protest
  3. The Uranium Minefield
  4. So Many Special Friends – Which One to Choose?
  5. Iraq: Why a Strategic Blunder Looked So Attractive
  6. Annual Defence Meeting Planned
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, March 30, 2006

  1. Papua Crucial To Indonesia: Why Jakarta Is So Sensitive about Independence Movements
  2. Energy Needs Divert Focus From Nuclear Arms
  3. International Forces Must Be Maintained in Kabul
  4. Australian Foreign Policy and the Management of Intelligence Post-September 11
  5. The Testament of Solomons: RAMSI and International State-Building
  6. Special Report: West Papua – Starting Points
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, March 27, 2006

  1. Indonesia Recalls Ambassador to Australia
  2. Papua: The Dangers of Shutting Down Dialogue
  3. New ADI Boss May Defend Conflict
  4. Sharing the Shame of AWB
  5. Straits of Malacca Not a “War-Risk” Zone
  6. What Price Security?: Australia’s Terrorism Laws
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, March 23, 2006

  1. The Wheat Buck Stops Here
  2. Searching For the Exit from Iraq
  3. PNG: Government Ready to Welcome UN Intervention
  4. Vietnam Cancers Linked to Water
  5. Defence Minister Gets More Money
  6. Illegal Boats ‘Plundering, Outwitting Coast Watch’
  7. Nuclear Safety Net Must Remain Strong
  8. Call for NZ and US to Cooperate More in the Pacific
  9. Defence Bidder on Spy Charge
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, March 20, 2006

  1. E. Timor Sacks Hundreds of Troops
  2. Indonesia: Investigate Escalating Violence in Papua
  3. How Shock And Awe Turned To Fear And Loathing In Iraq
  4. Cost of War is High, but Affordable
  5. A Flight of Fancy: the Joint Strike Fighters
  6. Afghan Endgame ’20 Years Away’
  7. The 2006 US National Security Strategy: Issue Brief
  8. Key States Reaffirm Ridding the World of Nuclear Weapons
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APSNet Semi-Weekly Bulletin, March 16, 2006

  1. Brendan Nelson addresses the Australian Defence Magazine Conference
  2. Containing China a Big Mistake: Alexander Downer
  3. Secret Software May Crash Fighter Deal
  4. Iraq: The Doomed Adventure
  5. RI Queries Rice on Security Program
  6. Special Report: In Depth on the India-US Nuclear Agreement
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