Australian Maritime Issues 2007 - Royal Australian Navy

New Threats, New Approaches: Australia’s Maritime Security Cooperation in South East Asia
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Department of Defence, Australia’s National Security: A Defence Update 2007, pp. 10, 37.
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Other MOUs have been signed with Fiji, East Timor, India and Papua New Guinea.
24
Michael Richardson, ‘Maritime attacks could damage our gas exports’, The Australian,
12 July 2005.
25
Richardson, ‘Maritime attacks could damage our gas exports’; Michael Richardson, ‘Australia
and the Philippines expand cooperation in sea surveillance’, The Jakarta Post, 4 July 2006.
26
Attorney-General’s Department, Security Environment Update, Attorney-General’s Department,
Canberra, 8 May 2007. For commentary on Laos, see Sheng Lijun, ‘China-ASEAN cooperation
against illicit drugs from the Golden Triangle’, Asian Perspective, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2006,
pp. 97-126.
27
Australian Federal Police, ‘Fighting terrorism at its source’, accessed 21 December 2007.
28
Australian Federal Police, Annual Report 2004–05, Australian Federal Police, Canberra, p. 20.
29
Australian Federal Police, Annual Report 2004–05, pp. 21, 65.
30
Attorney-General’s Department, ‘Security Environment Update’, Attorney-General’s
Department, Canberra, 9 May 2006; Senator the Hon. Chris Ellison, Minister for Justice and
Customs, ‘Customs Border Protection Capability Strengthened’, Press release, Attorney-
General’s Department, Canberra, 9 May 2006.
31
See Navy and combined services exercises listed in Department of Defence, Defence Annual
Report 2006–07, Department of Defence, Canberra, 2007, pp. 467-471.
32
Launched by President George W. Bush in 2003, the PSI aims to prevent the spread by air,
sea or land of weapons of mass destruction, their delivery systems and component materials
between states or non-state actors of proliferation concern. More than 75 countries currently
support the PSI.
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Michelle Wiese Bockman, ‘RAAF set to fight piracy from the air’, The Australian, 19 September
2005.
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Rob Taylor, ‘Australia may send aircraft to guard Malacca Straits’, Australian Associated Press,
9 December 2005.
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‘Indonesia gives nod to Malacca patrols’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 10-11 December 2005.
36
The Hon. Warren Truss, MP, ‘Address to the Port and Maritime Security and Counterterrorism
Conference 2006’, WS12/2006, 18 May 2006, accessed 23 June 2006; AusAID, Fact Sheet: Aid Activities
in the Philippines, AusAID, Canberra, 2006.
37
Attorney-General’s Department, Security Environment Update 2006.
38
Anthony Bergin and Sam Bateman, Future Unknown: The Terrorist Threat to Australian Maritime
Security, Australian Strategic Policy Institute, Canberra, April 2005, p. 65.
39
Ellison, ‘Customs Border Protection Capability Strengthened’.
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The following draws extensively on Caroline Millar, ‘“Bali Process” – Building Regional
Cooperation to Combat People Smuggling and Trafficking in Persons’, Speech at the Institute
for the Study of Global Movements, Monash University, 29 July 2004, accessed 22 June 2006;
and the Bali process website at .