Seventeen billion dollars will be needed to directly replace critical infrastructure between 2015 and 2050 due to the impact of natural disasters in Australia. That’s a key finding of this month’s report from the Australian …
The Beat Narcotic control strategy reports What’s that? You want to read about international narcotics control strategies? Well, you’re in luck. Both the United Nations and the US State Department have recently released reports on …
Australia’s new Defence White Paper has plenty to say about a ‘secure, resilient Australia’. Paragraph 3.6 states: ‘Our interest in a secure, resilient Australia also means an Australia resilient to unexpected shocks, whether natural or …
The Beat Europol banding together to fight Daesh Europol has launched a new counterterrorism centre in the wake of the Paris attacks. In anticipation of more terrorist attacks occurring across Europe, the new centre will …
The Beat High-tech policing The Washington Post’s Justin Jouvenal takes a look at how police and law enforcement agencies are increasingly able to use technology to calculate a suspect’s ‘threat scores’. Software such as Beware …




