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A DEFENCE POLICY AT THE CROSSROADS A leading Australian defence expert has warned that the Federal Government must not wind back on the need to protect the nation, in favour of developing expeditionary capabilities for overseas involvement with coalition allies. A NATION ON ALERT AGAINST NEIGHBOURHOOD TERRORISM The proliferation of South East Asian-based Islamist terrorist groups with cells in Australia poses the single biggest threat to Australian interests in the immediate to long term future, one of the world’s foremost terrorism authorities has told the third Charles Darwin Symposium. GOOD PUBLIC HEALTH THE PERFECT PILL FOR POLITICAL STABILITY A Victorian public health physician and medical epidemiologist, Dr Michael Toole, believes Darwin is geographically poised to play a key role as Australia’s ‘window’ on the major humanitarian needs of countries to its north. IRREGULAR IMMIGRATION – THE FRAGILE CALM BEFORE NEW WAVES Former transnational intelligence analyst Andrew Wilkie has labeled Australia’s border protection policy as ‘fragile, unsustainable and unethical’. He has also predicted significant future arrivals of asylum seekers, both from traditional and new sources. AUSTRALIA FAILS THE MANDATORY DETENTION TEST Australia’s globally notorious mandatory detention policy for unauthorised entrants was more extreme than that of any other Asia Pacific nation, a world-respected human rights and refugee law specialist has told the third Charles Darwin Symposium.
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