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Just being a ‘good local cop’ isn’t easy
Posted By Karl Claxton on May 3, 2013 @ 12:31
Today’s Defence White Paper confirms an increasing focus on the security, stability and cohesion of Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and the South Pacific states.
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[1] Image: http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/20100712adf8114832_131_lo.jpg
[2] Defence White Paper: http://www.defence.gov.au/WhitePaper2013/index.htm
[3] bring our own immediate neighborhood back into sharp focus: http://www.lowyinstitute.org/files/smith_lowy_institute_090812.pdf
[4] commitments to distant land-based operations: http://www.minister.defence.gov.au/2013/04/16/minister-for-defence-speech-australian-strategic-policy-institute/
[5] Joint Communique: http://www.minister.defence.gov.au/files/2013/05/South-Pacific-Defence-Ministers-Meeting-Joint-Communique2.pdf
[6] peace dividend: http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/policy-talks-the-way-money-walks/
[7] for mainly commercial reasons: http://www.sbs.com.au/dateline/story/transcript/id/601026/n/Courting-East-Timor
[8] declining: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/foreign-affairs/lack-of-pacific-focus-risking-australias-influence-report-finds/story-fn59nm2j-1226580628286
[9] followship: http://www.securitychallenges.org.au/ArticlePDFs/Vol8No4Dobell.pdf
[10] disputed maritime boundaries: http://thediplomat.com/asean-beat/2013/02/20/east-timor-risks-all-in-oil-dispute/
[11] asylum processing centre: http://www.securitychallenges.org.au/ArticlePDFs/Vol8No4Peake.pdf
[12] breathing space: http://www.lowyinstitute.org/files/pubfiles/Hayward-Jones%2C_Policy_overboard_web.pdf
[13] 250 times as much: http://www.iiss.org/en/publications/military%20balance/issues/the-military-balance-2012-77da/mb12-02-headline-tables-620f
[14] different security perspectives and imperatives: http://www.minister.defence.gov.au/2013/04/05/parliamentary-secretary-for-defence-speech-papua-new-guinea-security-through-leadership/
[15] good local cop but that’s all: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/columnists/good-local-cop-but-thats-all/story-e6frg76f-1226633426191
[16] cross-cutting challenges: http://data.worldbank.org/region/EAP
[17] LNG revenue: http://devpolicy.org/pngs-3-5-billion-budget/
[18] Bougainville: http://www.culturalsurvival.org/ourpublications/csq/article/bougainville-beyond-survival
[19] genuinely expeditionary: http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-adf-and-expeditionary-warfare/
[20] Defence: http://www.defence.gov.au/op/solomonislands/gallery/2010/20100721a/index.htm