The cumulative effect of recent terrorist arrests is a country on edge, fearful of slipping back to the dark days of the first half of the 2000s, writes Stuart Ranfurlie, a freelance journalist in Jakarta.l
Terrorist activities
What Australia can learn from Sri Lanka about ‘security’
The cream of Australia’s security establishment are gathering for their annual shindig, the “Safeguarding Australia Summit”, writes Jake Lynch, associate professor and director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney.
What does a terrorist look like?
Today’s foiling of a terror plot in Melbourne demonstrates that racial profiling is now a fairly useless tool for finding potential terrorists, writes Paul Colgan
The (overcrowded) grassy knoll on the Vic bushfires
As the fires still rage, the body count mounts, and most media outlets discuss the merits of Australia’s “stay or go” fire strategy, a select few commentators (read: loonies) are actually seriously discussing the possibility of “forest jihad”…
Peter Faris: Haneef has been correctly and lawfully treated
Dr Haneef has been correctly and lawfully treated by the Australian Government, the Australian Federal Police and the courts. At every stage of his journey the decisions of the authorities have been monitored and reviewed by the courts, writes Peter Faris QC.
