It’s now commonplace for terrorists to use industrially available chemical explosives like ammonium nitrate or everyday technology like mobile phones to detonate improvised explosive devices. In a recent op-ed in The Australian with my colleague …
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The Beat The global drug problem From 19 to 21 April, the UN General Assembly held its Special Session on World Drug Problem. The session was held in working towards the goals set out in …
The aftershocks are now continuing to rattle the survivors of a series of deadly Japanese earthquakes with the death toll now at 48. Natural disasters are predictive surprises: we don’t know when they’ll occur, but …
Military interpretations of ‘landscape’ conventionally include notions of strategy, control and domination. They also include environmental factors that might impact Defence’s readiness to carry out conventional military tasks as well as environmental protection from the …
The Beat Police body cams: the problem of perspective Police body cameras have become a hot topic since the fatal 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown in the US. Australia has been caught in the …