Articles by: "Cesar Alvarez"
Demining Colombia

The war between Colombia and the FARC rebel group is over. After four years of negotiating, on 26 September in Cartagena both sides shook hands and bid farewell to the longest-running conflict in the western …

What did Australia learn about drugs in 2015?

Fighting the war on drugs has never been easy. But 2015 was a particularly brutal chapter in Australia’s illicit drugs history. The methamphetamine crisis and its countless headlines pushed the country into uncharted waters. Many …

The Beat, CT Scan and Checkpoint

The Beat Taskforce to combat welfare fraud A pilot project to target welfare fraud—colourfully and misleadingly described in the Sydney press this week—has now been converted to a new task force within the Department of Human Services. …

The Beat, CT Scan and Check Point

The Beat Transparency International criticises UK Transparency International’s latest report Don’t Look, Won’t Find: weaknesses in the supervising of the UK’s anti-money laundering rules calls for a radical overall of the UK’s anti-money laundering mechanisms, …

The Beat, CT Scan and Checkpoint

The Beat Private and public sectors meet to counter terrorism financing Indonesian and Australian officials met with experts in Sydney this week for the first regional counterterrorism financing summit. The summit, attended by French Consul …