L19: September 11 and Beyond

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L19 September 11 and Beyond

• If we left this contest only to America, we would
  be leaving it to them to defend our rights and
  those of all the other people of the world who
  have a commitment to freedom and liberty. We
  will not do it. We admire their strength and
  greatness, but Australians have always been a
  people prepared to fight our own fights.
• To do anything less on this occasion would be
  both strategically inept and morally
  indefensible, especially given the strength of
  our mutual commitment with the United States
  under the ANZUS pact.
• -- John Howard, 2001

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Australias Foreign Policy Response to S11

• Invoking Article IV of the ANZUS Treaty
• Writing the US a Blank Cheque
• Australia will provide all the support that
  might be requested of us by the US.
• War in Afghanistan (2001)
• Invasion of Iraq (2003)

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Australias Domestic Responses to S11

• Airport Security
• Anti-Terror Laws
• ASIO Act Amendment Bill
• Security Legislation Amendment (Terrorism) Bill
• Financial Expansion of the CT Budget

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Australias Domestic Responses to S11

• The Public Information Campaign
• Anti-Terror Kit
• TV Advertisements
• National Alert System
• The National Security Hotline
• CT White Papers
• Protecting Australia Against Terrorism, (PMC,
  2004)
• Transnational Terrorism, (DFAT, 2004)

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Australia Confronts Terrorism

• Bali Bombing (2002)
• Embassy Bombing Jakarta (2004)
• Abduction of an Australian citizen in Iraq (2005)
• Interpreting Australias Terrorist Encounters
  Abroad

Australian Embassy Bombing, Jakarta
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Theorising Australian Security After September 11

• Why the Terrorism Discourse?
• The Influence of neo-Conservatism
• A Departure from Realist Foreign Policy
• Good International Citizen or Rogue State?
• A Big Brother State?
• The US Alliance