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by jwithers — last modified 2008-04-17 21:50

Austral Peace and Security Network 2006 Archive

Austral Peace and Security Network Twice weekly Report, from the Nautilus Institute at RMIT, Melbourne, Australia. This archive contains the 2006 issues. Other years are available in the APSNet archive.

Monday 18 December 2006

  1. Troubled Stealth Fighter Tackles First Test Flight
  2. France Will Withdraw Some Forces from Afghanistan
  3. Iraq Out of Sight
  4. Small Arms Analysis of Iraq Study Group Report
  5. RAMSI: Voice of the People - People's Survey Pilot 2006
  6. Panel Seeks Consensus on U.S. Nuclear Arsenal

Austral Policy Forum 06-36A: Papua and the Security Cooperation Treaty with Indonesia - Richard Chauvel

Austral Policy Forum 06-37A: Aceh: Elections and the Possibility of Peace - Edward Aspinall

Thursday 14 December 2006

  1. Papuan Artists 'Rejected by Security Pact'
  2. Britain: Military Shortages Pose Danger
  3. Saudis Say they Might Back Sunnis if US Leaves Iraq
  4. Afghanistan: One War We Can Still Win
  5. Aceh: Irwandi Ready to Cooperate with Jakarta
  6. Pacific Plan Updated
  7. Experts Explode Ziggy's Nuclear Power Theory

Monday 11 December 2006

  1. Iraq: Australian Role to Be Reassessed
  2. Clash Leaves Two Dead in Indonesia's Papua Province
  3. Fiji Troops Pursue Crackdown on Opposition
  4. Election Aceh's First Step towards Freer Future
  5. Security Ignored in Half-Baked Effort on Warming
  6. Australia Hides a 'Failed State'

Thursday 7 December 2006

  1. Australia: Navy Granted Power to Shoot at Illegal Fishers
  2. Fiji: Military Declares State of Emergency
  3. Indonesia: Ministry to Reactivate Grassroots Spy Networks to 'Combat Terror'
  4. Agreement between Australia and the Republic of Indonesia on the Framework for Security Cooperation
  5. Get Out of Iraq by 2008, Panel Tells Bush
  6. Afghanistan Opium Crop Sets Record
  7. Yellowcake Exports to China Get Green Light
  8. Japan, Australia Agree to Start Economic Partnership Talks

Austral Policy Forum 06-35A: Avoiding the Cause: Australia and Political Persecution in West Papua - Scott Burchill

Monday 4 December 2006

  1. Fiji Police Say Military Has Not Attempted to Take Over its Tactical Response Unit
  2. One Dead, 17 Hurt in East Timor Violence
  3. Iraq: Rumsfeld's Shocking Memo
  4. After Iraq
  5. Out of Control in Indonesia
  6. NT to Jail all Illegal Fishermen

Thursday 30 November 2006

  1. Boost in Troops a Must for Iraq Win
  2. NATO Signals Troop Reinforcement in Afghanistan
  3. New RAMSI Head Aims at Establishing Good Dialogue
  4. Fiji at Flashpoint as Armed Troops Lock Down Suva
  5. Analysis of the Draft Report of the Uranium Mining, Processing and Nuclear Energy Review
  6. Nuclear Debate: Part Four: Australia and the World
  7. Bill to Cut Traditional Owners Out of Waste Dump Consultations
  8. Mindanao: A Gamble Worth Taking

Monday 27 November 2006

  1. Iraq: British Exit Plan Not for Us: Nelson
  2. Fighter Tail Spin Feared
  3. Indonesia-India: The Start of a Beautiful Friendship?
  4. War on Terror Costs Us $20bn
  5. Limitations of Safeguards on Nuclear Materials
  6. Out Today: The Wheat Scandal that Has Plagued Australia
  7. Survey to Upgrade Barrier Reef Detail
  8. Rapid Tests for Bird Flu Are Flawed

Thursday 23 November 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

Monday 20 November 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

Thursday 16 November 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

Monday 13 November 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

Thursday 9 November 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

Austral Policy Forum 06-34A: The Downfall of Thaksin Shinawatra's Chief Executive Officer-State - Kelvin Rowley

Monday 6 November 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?

Monday 2 November 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

Monday 30 October 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

Thursday 26 October 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

Monday 23 October 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

Thursday 19 October 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

Austral Policy Forum 06-33A: Guns and the Pacific: A Wasteful Hiccup at the United Nations - Philip Alpers

Monday 16 October 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

Thursday 12 October 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. Briefing Note: Afghanistan

Monday 9 October 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

Thursday 5 October 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

Monday 2 October 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

Thursday 28 September 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

Monday 25 September 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

Thursday 21 September 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

Austral Policy Forum 06-32A: Whither The Japan-Australia Security Relationship? - Desmond Ball

Monday 18 September 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

Thursday 7 September 2006

  1. Tokyo Urged to Consider N-Bombs
  2. Downer Defies UN over Timor Troops
  3. Violence in Papua More Than Just About Tribal Rivalry
  4. Afghanistan: Campaign against Taliban 'Causes Misery and Hunger'
  5. Australia: Submarine Fleet 'Should Go Nuclear'
  6. US Spy Chief Makes Not-So-Secret Visit
  7. Pacific: Newcomers Face a Rising Tide of Resentment

Austral Policy Forum 06-31A: Preventing Accidental Disease Outbreaks: Biosafety in East Asia - Christian Enemark

Monday 4 September 2006

  1. Australian Govt. Boosts Iraq Troops
  2. Hundreds Killed in Afghanistan Battle
  3. East Timor: Venom Threatens Separate Mission
  4. Pacific: A Neighbourhood Living on the Edge
  5. Australia and the Nuclear Renaissance

Thursday 31 August 2006

  1. Rebel Officer in Timor Mass Jailbreak
  2. UN Acts to Stamp out Sex Abuse by Staff in East Timor
  3. PNG Arrests Indonesian Fishermen
  4. Papua Shrouded by Misperceptions
  5. Australia: Weapons Cover-Up Revealed
  6. Indonesia's Powderkeg
  7. World Bank Calls on Indonesia to Do More to Fight Bird Flu Virus
  8. Physicist Joins PM's Nuclear Taskforce

Monday 28 August 2006

  1. Australia: We Want You: $10bn to Raise Army Recruits
  2. Australian Army Decision Just Right
  3. PM Hits a Trouble Spot
  4. Police to Return to PNG
  5. Army to Reduce E Timor Troops
  6. 100 Delegates from Papua and PNG to Hold Meeting in W Kalimantan
  7. Tokyo Company Accused Of Exporting Parts for Nuclear Weapons
  8. United Nations Taking A More Visible Pacific Role

Thursday 24 August 2006

  1. Jakarta Wants in on our Nuclear Debate
  2. The National Radioactive Waste Facility
  3. East Timor Ends Emergency Measures
  4. Papua-PNG: Caught in the Crossfire
  5. Overseas Federal Police Unit Doubles
  6. US Opinion: Shifting Sands in Iraq
  7. 'Jihad Jack' Set Free
  8. Physicists Back Claim that US-Indian Deal Could Allow for 50 New Indian Nuclear Weapons a Year

Austral Policy Forum 06-30A: Burma and Its Neighbours: The Geopolitics of Gas - Åshild Kolås and Stein Tønnesson

Monday 21 August 2006

  1. Farewell of Australian Troops, Bound for Afghanistan
  2. Tehran Accuses Australia
  3. Human Rights: Australia versus the UN
  4. 'A Reckoning Awaits' on China's Power
  5. Oil 'Time Bomb' in Philippines
  6. Mud Flood Threatens Java Residents
  7. Timor, Status of Forces Agreements

Austral Policy Forum 06-29A: Why is Australia fighting in New York to keep control of the Peacekeeping Force in Timor-Leste? - Helen Hill

Thursday 17 August 2006

  1. US Backs Howard's Nuclear Vision
  2. UN Battles Australia Over East Timor Presence
  3. Australian Soldiers Injured By Rocket Attack in Baghdad
  4. Australian Forces Build Regional Links
  5. Australian Military 'Stretched Too Thin' To Join Peacekeepers in Lebanon
  6. Indonesia: Bombing Season Is Back
  7. Radicals Brainwashing Aborigines in Prison
  8. How Are The Neighbours? The Millennium Development Goals and Our Region

Monday 14 August 2006

  1. Afghanistan: Unclear and Present Danger
  2. Indonesian Strategy 'Defeats' Australia
  3. World Bank Urges Seasonal Labour Plan for Pacific
  4. Lebanon: Australia to Keep Out of Peacekeeping
  5. UN Looks to Beef Up Police in East Timor
  6. Australia-Japan: Downer's New Samurai
  7. PM's Secretary May Take Post in Defence
  8. Beazley Maps out Defence Position

Thursday 10 August 2006

  1. Indonesia: Official Admits Mistakes in Timor
  2. Australia 'Should Lead E Timor Mission'
  3. Afghanistan: PM Warns of Casualties
  4. PNG: NGO Releases Report Critical Of Logging Industry
  5. Malacca: Strait Struck From Piracy High-Risk List
  6. Indonesia Records another Bird Flu Death

Austral Policy Forum 06-27A: Missiles and sanctions: Has a watershed been reached in the Korean nuclear crisis? - James Cotton

Monday 7 August 2006

  1. Australia, PNG Team Up To Secure Border
  2. Australia In Poor Shape To Aid PNG, Says Analyst
  3. Jihad leader's suicide bomb warning
  4. West Papua Border Mission May/June 2006
  5. US Strategy Reaping Chaos Aplenty
  6. Australia: Nelson reiterates commitment to Iraq
  7. Australia: Budget sinks top-end technology hopes
  8. Australia: Claims queried on role of prison ship

Austral Policy Forum 06-26A: Australian government assault rifle now a common crime gun in Papua New Guinea - Philip Alpers

Thursday 3 August 2006

  1. Australia: Illegals to Be Held On Prison Hulk
  2. State of Emergency Declared in PNG Southern Highlands Province
  3. Defence Outlay Must Rise
  4. RMIT Wins Lucrative Defence Contract
  5. Australia Close to Surveillance Ability
  6. Fierce Fighting in S. Philippines
  7. Bomb Kills Three Thai Policemen
  8. EU May Extend Peace Mission in Aceh
  9. H5N1 Ravages Bali Chickens

Monday 31 July 2006

  1. Troops Could Go to Lebanon
  2. Aping the US on Israel
  3. Diggers Start Timor Withdrawal in Weeks
  4. Canberra in Iraq Oil Grab Bid for BHP
  5. Guest Workers Here To Stay
  6. Unmanned Aircraft to Patrol NW Shelf
  7. Defence: Hey, Big Spender
  8. WHO: 'Rapid Response' Targets Bird Flu

Austral Policy Forum 06-25A: Crisis in Timor-Leste - Richard Curtain

Thursday 27 July 2006

  1. Lebanon: Australian Troops Ordered Out
  2. Afghanistan: 100 Diggers to Reinforce Mission
  3. East Timor: Lobato Retracts Admission He Armed Hit Squad
  4. East Timor: UN Efforts Amount to Castles in the Air
  5. Britain and UN Dance to the US Tune
  6. China Finds Fault over Treatment of Aborigines
  7. Distrustful, Unco-operative Canberra Goes Quiet in a Crisis
  8. Australia: Beazley Ditches Uranium Mine Ban

Monday 24 July 2006

  1. Australia: Extra Troops to Face Afghan Anarchy
  2. US Bombers to Practise in NT
  3. Nelson: Army Needs Troops
  4. Military Acquisitions: Defence's Discipline Problem
  5. Timor Back In Business
  6. Timor Teens Terrorise Camps of Displaced
  7. Eye on Iraq: Grim News
  8. North Korea: Embrace Tiger, Retreat to Mountain, Test Nuke

Austral Policy Forum 06-24A: Australia's New Nuclear Ambitions - Richard Broinowski

Thursday 20 July 2006

  1. Australian Defence Force (ADF) Personnel on Way to Beirut
  2. Townsville Troops Head Home from E Timor
  3. RAMSI: Solomons Forces Face 'Growing Hostility'
  4. Uranium: Howard's Nuke Challenge to Bush
  5. Strengthening Australia's Maritime Security
  6. Damning Assessment of Tsunami Aid
  7. Escalating Middle-East Conflicts - The Markets and the Region React
  8. Briefing Notes: Lebanon-Israel Conflict

Monday 17 July 2006

  1. Australian Troops Hand Over to Iraqi Control
  2. Papua: Security Job at Freeport Given to Police
  3. Afghanistan: No Longer Peacemakers
  4. Australia and Indonesia Remain the 'Odd Couple' of Southeast Asia
  5. Nuclear Threat: Securing the Bomb 2006
  6. The Papua Region Is the HIV Capital of Indonesia - But Why?
  7. Indonesia: Bird Flu-Free RI Not Likely Anytime Soon
  8. East Java: Santos at Centre of Toxic Mud Disaster

Austral Policy Forum 06-23A: Australian Nuclear Weapons: The Story So Far - Richard Broinowski

Thursday 13 July 2006

  1. Iraq: AWB Faces Writ over Racketeering Claim
  2. Defence Admits It Snubbed Iraqis
  3. Downer Resolved to Reduce Timor Force
  4. East Timor: Too Many Men with Too Many Guns
  5. Pacific: Guest Workers Are Already Here
  6. Solomon's Central Bank Governor Warns of Economic Disaster
  7. Australia: Maritime Security and Illegal Fishing a National Disgrace
  8. Indian Test Further Highlights Australian Exposure

Austral Policy Forum 06-22A: Suggestions for the Next United Nations Mission in Timor-Leste - Charles Scheiner

Monday 10 July 2006

  1. East Timor: Guns Still Missing as PM Changes
  2. East Timor: The Story We Weren't Told
  3. Troop Boost on Cards for Afghanistan
  4. China Wants Pyongyang Stronger, Not Weakened
  5. Burma Seeks Nuclear Weapons Alliance with N Korea
  6. Australia: PM Rules Out Nuclear Waste
  7. Australia: The Nuclear Option
  8. Environment: The Threat to the Planet

Thursday 6 July 2006

  1. Afghanistan: Troops Face Resurgent Taliban on Home Turf
  2. Australia, India to Strengthen Defence Links
  3. Australia: Troops Hit by Equipment 'Stuff-Ups'
  4. North Korea: Yet Another Failure to Launch the Taepodong Missile
  5. Pirates Hit Two UN Ships in Malacca Strait
  6. Iraq and Vietnam: Different Battles, Different Response
  7. Why Trying to Appease Indonesia Doesn't Work
  8. Regional Allies in the Fight against Bird Flu

Monday 3 July 2006

  1. East Timor: Ramos Horta urges Australia to lead UN Force
  2. Aust-Indonesia Security Treaty: Beyond the Personal
  3. Australian Foreign Policy: Messy Times ahead for this Ragtag Empire
  4. Australia's other War in Iraq
  5. Small Arms: Just what is doing all the Killing?
  6. North Korea: Nelson right to show Restraint
  7. PNG Declines to accommodate Papuan Asylum Seekers
  8. Afghanistan and its Future

Policy Forum: Discussion of "The Proliferation Security Initiative: Coming in from the Cold" - Comments by Mark Valencia and a response by Ron Huisken

Thursday 29 June 2006

  1. East Timor: Alkatiri Speaks
  2. No Quick Fix in East Timor
  3. 'Justice on the Cheap' Revisited: The Failure of the Serious Crimes Trials in East Timor
  4. Why Indonesia Needs a New Way in Politics
  5. What's Wrong in Papua
  6. North Korea: US Has Right to Missile Defence, says Howard
  7. Stubborn Kyoto Stand Will Cost Us Dearly

Monday 26 June 2006

  1. East Timor PM resigns
  2. East Timor: Canberra Risks Accusations Of Backing A Coup
  3. Indonesia, Beefing Up Defense, Seeks Submarines, Jets
  4. West Papua: Indonesian Police 'Tortured Papuans'
  5. PNG: Guns Destruction Raises Big Concern
  6. The Rape Of PNG Forests
  7. North East Asia: As Pentagon Narrows Focus, A Little Local Knowledge Might Be Wise
  8. Australia: The Tampa Effect Isn't Likely To Reappear
  9. Nauru Given $40m To Take Refugees - And Fight Graft
  10. Indonesia: Bird Flu Funding Plan For Jakarta

Policy Forum: Indonesia's good intentions, bad "fengshui" - Projecting international image and coping with domestic disasters by Yeo Lay Hwee and Cynthia Chang

Thursday 22 June 2006

  1. Iraqi Fury at Australian Shooting
  2. East Timor: FRETILIN Poised to Sack Alkatiri
  3. Australian Army Rushes to Set Up Base for 3000 in Timor
  4. Corruption Rife In Indonesian Military
  5. More Bang for Defence Equipment
  6. Indonesia's Fight Against Bird Flu Needs International Support: FAO
  7. Heating Up The Planet: Climate Change and Security
  8. Nautilus News: North Korea Warned Against Long-Range Missile Test

Monday 19 June 2006

  1. Giant New Bases to House US Troops
  2. Indonesia Plays Down Security Deal
  3. Timor Minister Equipped Police as Private Army
  4. More Police to Patrol 'Tense' Timor
  5. Troops leave for Solomon Islands
  6. Afghan POWs Denied Rights Because 'It's Not a War'
  7. Briefing Notes: US Expansion and Upgrading of Joint Australia-US Training Facilities

Thursday 15 June 2006

  1. Australia Resists UN Takeover of Timor Security
  2. East Timor: The Traumatic Birth of a Nation
  3. Indonesia: Treaty Won't Bring True Accord
  4. West Has Been Helping Itself, Not Afghanistan
  5. US Calls on Canberra to Uncover Spy Report
  6. Australia Spends Up Big on Defence
  7. Improved Military Satellite Communications for Defence
  8. Australia and Turkey Sign Defence Cooperation Agreement

Austral Policy Forum 06-20A: The Real Pacific Solution: A NATO for Asia - Nick Bisley

Monday 12 June 2006

  1. Southern Philippines: Terrorists on the Run
  2. The Tragedy that is Timor
  3. PNG: Terror Threat
  4. Come Home, Iraq Workers Warned
  5. The Iraq War Will Seriously Damage the US
  6. Deaths Darken Cloud over Gloomy Hicks
  7. Heat on Our Security

Austral Policy Forum 06-19A: Multiple Jeopardies: Emerging Global Rules for Climate Change Adaptation - Peter Hayes

Thursday 8 June 2006

  1. Alkatiri Agrees to Investigation of Start of Mayhem in East Timor
  2. Timor Asks for More NZ Help
  3. Troops to Minister: Does One Of Us Have To Die Before It's War?
  4. Security Treaty to Smooth Over Rift with Jakarta
  5. Australia Hosts APEC Pandemic Influenza Exercise
  6. Cheating Our Way Towards Kyoto

Austral Policy Forum 06-18A: Ten Questions About East Timor For Which We Need Answers - Richard Tanter

Monday 5 June 2006

  1. Downer Puts Plan for Timor Future
  2. Portuguese Refuse Australian Command in Timor
  3. Invisible Enemy Strikes Australian Troops in Iraq
  4. Don't Endanger Nuclear Energy Debate
  5. Japan Maritime Aircraft to Visit RAAF
  6. Defence White Paper in Fiji Recommends Cutting Army By 50 Percent
  7. Judges Seek Fair Trial For Hicks

Austral Policy Forum 06-17A: We had a House in Dili - Jacqueline Siapno

Thursday 1 June 2006

  1. Mob Steals Criminal Files from 1999 Bloodshed in E Timor
  2. A Display of Power: E Timor
  3. Australia Urges Alkatiri to Put Timor First
  4. Australians Safe Despite Vehicle Bombing in Iraq
  5. Overseas Missions Get Their Own Police
  6. Papuan Religious Leader Spooked by Indonesian Security Officers
  7. The Other Disaster on our Doorstep: PNG

Monday 29 May 2006

  1. E. Timor: A Delicate Balance in a Young, Divided Nation
  2. Indonesia Spying on Papuans: Greens
  3. Going to War: Penetrating the Veil on Iraq
  4. More than 1,000 Brits Have Deserted Iraq War
  5. Climate Body Finds U.S. Well is Dry

Thursday 25 May 2006

  1. PM Sends Commandos into Dili
  2. Australia to Reduce Troop Numbers in the Solomons
  3. Diggers to Pull Out of Muthanna if Iraqis Take Over
  4. W.H.O. to Study Bird Flu Deaths in Family
  5. China Expands Military Reach
  6. NZ to Allow Guest Workers from Pacific Nations
  7. Climate Alert Spurs Nuclear Debate
  8. Inquiry into Australia's Defence Relations with the United States

Austral Policy Forum 06-16A: Australian foreign policy in the twentieth century: the problem of having special friends - David Martin Jones

Monday 22 May 2006

  1. Indonesia Challenges PM on Papua
  2. Japan to Help Rebuild Iraq After SDF Pullout: Koizumi
  3. U.S. Should Close Prison in Cuba, U.N. Panel Says
  4. Hopes Rise for Deal to End Timor Unrest
  5. Fiji Plans to Bar the Country's Armed Forces Commander from Politics, PM Says
  6. Armed Attacks in Bougainville
  7. Solomons PM Wants Inquiry on Police
  8. Pacific Unrest Brings NZ and Australia Closer on Defence
  9. Role for Australia in Future Action Dialogue on Climate Change

Thursday 18 May 2006

  1. PM Takes the Helm in Pacific Region
  2. Give Us A Break - Philippines Rejects Anti-Terrorism Critics
  3. Personnel Land in East Timor
  4. Fiji Election Win for SDL, Military Commander Challenges Leaders
  5. Jakarta's Envoy to Return to Canberra
  6. Australia Glad To Sell, Not Lease, Uranium
  7. US, Australia Sign Anti-Terrorism Pact
  8. Canada to Join Kyoto Rival

Monday 15 May 2006

  1. Canberra, Manila Fight Terrorism
  2. A Seasonal Guest-Worker Program for Australia?
  3. It's the Region, Stupid: Defence Assets Overstretched
  4. Diggers Battle Afghan Hell
  5. Problem of Papuan Refugees
  6. Indonesia Joins Iran in Nuclear Dream
  7. Troops on Standby for Timor Strife
  8. China - A Test of Mateship
  9. Special Report: North Korea and Financial Sanctions

Thursday 11 May 2006

  1. Troops Facing Greater Risks in Afghanistan, Iraq
  2. Korean Troops in Iraq to Start Returning Home
  3. Defence Budget: An Embarrassment of Riches to Fight New Threats
  4. Iran Looks to Muslim World for New Friends
  5. Mari Alkitri: Someone Wants a Coup d'�tat, East Timor
  6. Indonesia Says Deal Reached on Asylum
  7. Papuan Activist 'Stabbed To Death'
  8. The U.S.-India Deal: Can an Asian Nuclear Build Up Be Avoided?

Monday 8 May 2006

  1. Fresh Australian Troops for Southern Iraq
  2. Extra Australian Troops for Afghanistan
  3. Iraq Afghan Wars Cost US $439 Billion So Far
  4. Fleeing Dili Residents Begin to Return Following Reassurances
  5. Former Guerillas Demand E Timor They Fought For
  6. Separatists Do Not Represent All Papuans
  7. PM Sogavare Replies to Downer
  8. US Wants ANZUS Shipshape

Thursday 4 May 2006

  1. Struggle for a future: The threat of a new civil war looms in East Timor
  2. Solomon Islands: A mess in need of minders
  3. Victorian hurt in Iraq blast
  4. Defence force in copters debacle
  5. Time to intervene: A UN peacekeeping force is the only solution for Darfur
  6. Australia-US Alliance Series: Week 4
  7. PNG Indigenous Lawyer vs. International Logging Interests
  8. Freeport mine 'poisoning' West Papua's environment

Austral Policy Forum 06-15A: Selective outrage and unacknowledged fantasies: re-thinking Papua, Indonesia and Australia - Edward Aspinall

Thursday 1 May 2006

  1. Leaked Email Shows Hand of Canberra in Honiara
  2. Timor's Rocky Road
  3. Political Elites 'Prolonging' Sulawesi Sectarian Conflict
  4. Separatism in Papua a Racist Aim: Vanstone
  5. NATO Mulls Australian Alliance
  6. Goff Welcomes Call for US to Build Relations
  7. Special Report - Solomon Islands: background

Thursday 27 April 2006

  1. Ex-Soldiers Threaten Guerilla War in East Timor
  2. East Timor: Torture and Mistreatment by Police
  3. Officers Return to PNG
  4. Focus on Papua a Symptom of Narrow Vision
  5. Intelligence Gap Fails Melanesian Security Forces
  6. Hill to Advise on Diggers for Sudan
  7. Arms Bust Puts Indonesia under the Gun
  8. Nuclear Test Findings Look Grim For Veterans

Austral Policy Forum 06-14A: Australia, Indonesia and the Papuan Crises - Richard Chauvel

Thursday 24 April 2006

  1. What Really Went Wrong in the Solomons
  2. Solomons MP Held over Riots
  3. Indonesia's Rift with Australia
  4. Guest Worker Scheme May Be Better Pacific Solution for both Australia and Region
  5. Diggers in Iraq Face Riskier Role
  6. Push the Button on Nuclear Debate

Thursday 20 April 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"

Austral Policy Forum 06-13A: The Proliferation Security Initiative: Coming in from the Cold - Ron Huisken

Thursday 13 April 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

Monday 10 April 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

Thursday 6 April 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

Austral Policy Forum: 06-11A: Fiji, Iraq And The Privatisation Of Security - Nic Maclellan

Monday 3 April 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

Thursday 30 March 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

Policy Forum 06-10A: The MSDF Indian Ocean Deployment - Blue Water Militarization in a 'Normal Country' - Richard Tanter

Monday 27 March 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

Austral Policy Forum: 06/09A: A Firm Foundation: New Zealand Defence and Future Funding

Thursday 23 March 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

Monday 20 March 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

Thursday 16 March 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

Policy Forum 06-07A: Trilateral Congregation - Condi Rice's attempts in "Containing" China? - Yeo Lay Hwee and Lim Tai Wei

Monday 13 March 2006

  1. Defence Budget Fears
  2. China Rise The Focus Of Rice Talks
  3. Citizen To Terrorist A Quick Step: ASIO Chief
  4. Indian Nuclear Deal an Explosive Issue
  5. Lawyer Fears for 'Tortured' Australian
  6. All Clear For Uranium Sales To Chinese
  7. Thales (France) Plans Takeover of Australia's Largest Defence Manufacturer
  8. Ambassador Scolds Pro-Papua Mob

Thursday 9 March 2006

  1. Credentials the Cost of Nuclear Sell-Out
  2. 'Don't Let Treaty Be Barrier to Atomic Power Payoff'
  3. It's Not Necessary to Go All the Way with the USA
  4. Troops to Stay On in Iraq and Police Go to Sudan
  5. A Real Plan for Warming
  6. Maritime Security Deal Signed
  7. Group Takes Aim at Fishing Pirates

Austral Policy Forum Online: A New Era For Chinese Naval Expansion by You Ji.

Monday 6 March 2006

  1. PM Ready To Re-Examine Uranium Policy
  2. Bush Counters China through New Best Friend
  3. Helping Allies Is Key to Defence: Nelson
  4. ADF Signs Up For Giant Cargo Plane
  5. Customs Aircraft Cut But Go Hi-Tech
  6. More Soldiers Join Strike Over Military Conditions In East Timor
  7. Indonesia Says No Police Reinforcements for Papua Mine
  8. New Defence Capability Development Manual 2006
  9. Australians in Guantanamo Bay: The Detention of Mamdouh Habib and David Hicks

Austral Policy Forum Online: Indonesia's Big Brother Ambitions? by Lim Tai Wei & Yeo Lay Hwee.

Thursday 2 March 2006

  1. Missile Purchase to Upset Region
  2. Kopassus Troops Train in Australia
  3. Papua Travel Ban Halts Abuse Scrutiny: Envoy
  4. Mystery of How Vessel Was Lost
  5. Navy Figures Highlight Illegal Fishing Patrol Clashes

Monday 27 February 2006

  1. Papuan Backlash Closes Gold Mine
  2. Best Defence Seen As Mix of Regional and Global Strategy
  3. PM's Foreign Faces
  4. Nelson's Clear Eye On Law
  5. Corruption Undermines Aceh Tsunami Aid
  6. Mass Mutiny Hits E Timor Army
  7. US Tries To Avoid Iraq Civil War
  8. Cutting Edge: The Collins Experience
  9. Avian Flu 'To Come In From PNG'

Austral Policy Forum: West Papua, Refugees & Australia : Scott Burchill

Thursday 23 February 2006

  1. 200 More Troops for Afghanistan
  2. Relief for Stretched Hercules to Cost $2b
  3. Defence Papers for Cole Inquiry
  4. Nelson Tells Military to Cut Court Fights with Personnel
  5. AIDS Threat in PNG of African Levels, Warns Downer

Special Report: UN And Europe Are Right: Guantanamo Must Close

Austral Policy Forum: The Modern House of Tokelau: Self-determination in a Pacific Atoll Nation

Monday 20 February 2006

  1. PM Slams 'Jihadist' Muslims
  2. Seduction of Dr Nelson
  3. Xanana, SBY Let Shame File Slide
  4. Conflict Dogs Papuan Peace Chance
  5. Indonesia Caught In Moral Panic
  6. Does Tokelau Really Have A Future?
  7. Some SDF Members May Stay After Iraq Pullout

Special Report: AFP Death Penalty Guidelines

Special Report: Navy Fires on Illegal Fishing Boat

Thursday 16 February 2006

  1. ADF Shuns Used Gear After Bungle On Choppers
  2. New Iraq Role Ahead
  3. Bird Flu Threatens Misery For Millions
  4. Special Report: Australia, Japan and Southern Blue Fin Tuna

Monday 13 February 2006

  1. PM: Troops To Stay In Iraq
  2. US Alliance Overlooks Asia
  3. Investigation Launched Into Faulty Defence Equipment
  4. Spies In Dark On Kickbacks: PM
  5. CSIRO Muzzles Climate Scientists
  6. Special Report: Volcker Inquiry, Cole Inquiry And The Oil-For Food Program
  7. Special Report: New Zealand's Role in International Electronic Surveillance

Thursday 9 February 2006

  1. Hell of a Holiday Destination
  2. The Looming Conflict Over West Papua
  3. US Remarks Draw Unfriendly Fire
  4. The Ominous New Pact

Policy Forum Online 06-01A:
Representing and Misrepresenting Islam, Lily Zubaidah Rahim

Monday 6 February 2006

  1. US Wants Iraq Diggers To Stay Longer
  2. Lockheed Plans Rapid Rise Up Defence Ranks
  3. Asylum Case Threatens to Harm Ties, Envoy Warns
  4. Special Report: Environmental Security - Illegal Logging

Policy Forum Online 06-01A:The East Timor Truth Commission Report Shines, 2006-02-06, Gerry van Klinken

Thursday 2 February 2006

  1. Former ADF Head Issues Warning Over US Alliance
  2. Big Guns Shoot Down Call For Military Conscription
  3. Ambassador Carried Out His Mission
  4. ALP Won't Pursue Nuclear Power: Beazley
  5. Undiplomatic View
  6. Cyber Storm Bytes Back At Terrorists
  7. Special Report:Inquiry into Aerial Nuclear Testing in French Polynesia 1966-1974

Monday 30 January 2006

  1. Rift Looms Over Fate Of Papuan 'Refugees'
  2. Helping Out The Pacific
  3. Nuclear-Test Workers Demand France Change Its Attitude
  4. Stay Cool On China, US Told
  5. Australia's New Man Has Big Boots To Fill
  6. US Carrier Loses Jet

Thursday 26 January 2006

  1. Defence In Shambles: Beazley
  2. PNG: New Threat To Enhanced Cooperation Programme
  3. Army Base Expansion Approved
  4. Poor Report Card On Environment

Monday 23 January 2006

  1. Vanstone Refuses To Return Papuans
  2. West Papua Killing 'Not Linked' To Boat People
  3. One Of The Last Liberal Liberals
  4. A Land Of Fading Promise
  5. MP Warns Against Sabotaging ECPII
  6. Special Report: As Policy Leaders Ponder Australian Options

Thursday 19 January 2006

  1. Boat People To Test Jakarta Ties
  2. Coastguard Patrols End After Death
  3. Freeport Says It Paid Indonesia US$1 billion since 2004
  4. Gusmao To Hand Report To UN
  5. Australia-US Alliance
  6. N Korea Seeks To Restore Relationship

Monday 16 January 2006

  1. PM Pledges $100m To Help Climate
  2. What Should We Believe?
  3. Soldiers Given More Reasons To Shoot To Kill On Home Soil
  4. Watch On Asian Security
  5. Jindalee Radar Boosts BMD

Austral Peace and Security Network Twice weekly Report, from the Nautilus Institute at RMIT, Melbourne, Australia. This archive contains the 2006 issues. Other years are available in the APSNet archive.