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AUSTRALIA needs to overhaul its travel warning system or end up looking like the boy who cried wolf.
We found out last week that 567,000 Australians visited our neighbour Indonesia last year.
This means more than half a million Australians either didn’t know about - or, more likely, happily ignored - the Australian Government’s travel warnings when they flew off to Bali for a week of sun, surf, beer, braiding, tattoos and tummy upsets.
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Who’s going to say it first? Surely in the prickly conversations going on through the ranks of Australian sport and diplomacy, many people are suggesting it: that we shouldn’t be going to the Commonwealth Games.
It is one thing to take your own life in your hands by getting on a toboggan and going down an ice chute but it is quite another for governments and sporting authorities to send athletes to a place where people are threatening to kill them.
Following today’s threat of a terrorist attack on the Games in New Delhi from an al-Qaeda offshoot the stakes have been raised to vertigo-inducing levels. Fox Sports reports today:
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Concerned Aussie says:
Fully agree with Etrix… I think India very well deserve to host the games. This event will reflect to other members of Commonweatlh & other new countries that with right attitude & approach every nation can economically grow like India has… definitely there lot of issues to tackle in India… Read more »
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Etrix says:
I see you are quite jealous of what India has achieved in just 60 years after independence… This is natural for someone like you who hasn’t achieved anything meaningful in life to feel that way… I have full sympathetic to you… As saying goes Elephant does not get distracted when… Read more »
The hottest story in the Information Security world right now is the much publicised hacking of Google’s corporate network in China.
If you were skimming the headlines, you might think this story is somehow related to Google blocked searches and Chinese Government censorship. That is how it is being presented in much of the mainstream press, both locally and internationally.
For those who missed the initial story: Early last week Google suddenly announced that it may suspend its operations in China due to a highly sophisticated attack against its corporate network. Within days, it was revealed that up to 30 other tech companies (including Adobe) had been targeted by the same attackers.
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jo says:
google needs china more than china needs google. Read more »
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Simon says:
Google a tech Company. LOL. They are an advertising company looking to get a share of the $800 billion world wide advertising spend each year. Read more »
As a new year begins we should look at where we are with the struggle against Jihadi terrorism.
Retrospectively, we can now see a pattern in the role of Pakistani based Jihadists and new potential threats to Australia.
Three Australians, Gareth McEvoy, Nathan Verity, and Craig Senger, were murdered in Jakarta on July 17 by al-Qaeda’s South East Asian franchise, Jemaah Islamiyah.
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Davido says:
Yes Sri… a hard time. India needs to stop pretending it is the victim all the time. In the twelve months up to Mumbai there were 13 terrorist acts in India (there may be more of that I am not aware of). ALL of these were perpetrated by Indian terrorists.… Read more »
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ChrisJ says:
I believe Jezza is believing the propoganda and false history spread to justify zionist apartheid and land theft. There are tens of thousands of Muslims living in Iran despite strong efforts by Israel to frighten them into moving to Israel “to make up numbers” and displace those who have… Read more »
Having survived the recession, swine-flu and my affair with Tiger Woods, it chills me to find out there’s a new threat - airport scanners.
Now, I’m used to scanners. Used to queuing for ages behind people who empty their pockets only when they get to the scanning belt. Used to my (completely non-metallic) shoes setting off the alarms. I’m used to getting through and then being stopped for an explosives scan because I just love being scanned that much.
But these new scanners, recent coverage suggests, are different. A perversion of the metal scanner I know and love.
These scanners emit x-rays that pass through my clothes and then flash up a monochromatic image of me, denuded of clothes and hair, for security officials to leer and peer at my bits.
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jacks says:
“Full-body scanners operating in 19 U.S. airports can STORE and EXPORT captured images…” That’s right STORE and EXPORT. Do you want YOUR naked image STORED AND EXPORTED GOD KNOWS WHERE? Just think about it. YOUR naked image sent and store where and by whom? Why are we being criminally profiled? … Read more »
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the cake is a lie says:
If we were really serious about making airline travel safer, we would immediately cease and desist from this incessant infatuation with meddling into the internal affairs of foreign countries, stop invading and occupying foreign countries, and stop our own Government from sticking their noses where they don’t belong–which only serves… Read more »
One of the most disturbing things about this morning’s counter-terrorism raids in Melbourne is the profile of the suspects, who were allegedly planning a Mumbai-style machine-gun attack on Australian Army barracks.
They were, The Australian reports, construction workers and taxi drivers of Somali and Lebanese descent, living in suburban Melbourne.
Combine this with the admission of Anglo-Australian terrorist Shane Kent that he was part of a terrorist organisation and it’s clear terrorists don’t look like anything in particular and could be living in your street.
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The profile is they will be muslim they will be residents in the country they are going to attack and young and ready to kill non muslims and the authorities and law abiding muslims will probably already know them and they will be driven by what is happening to muslims… Read more »
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Paul says:
Paul Colgan your politcally correct views in this case are absolute nonsense. how many innocent people will have to die before fools like you admit that our biggest terrorist threats are from EXTREMIST MUSLIMS primarily of ARAB AND AFRICAN DESCENT. how on earth do you get away with publishing drivel… Read more »
Like Peter denying Jesus after the arrest, as dawn was breaking and the cock was getting ready to crow, Australia is given a third chance to acknowledge its inconvenient associations. Will we, like Peter, deny any association with or responsibility with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the detainees in Guantanamo? We probably will. We denied our own citizens in Guantanamo until the opinion polls started to turn dirty.
Australia, through the support of the Howard government for the actions of the Bush Administration’s war on terror, has as much responsibility for the Uighurs, who were found to have been wrongly detained, as does the US and the Bush Administration.
We should accept the Uighurs as refugees and permanent residents. If they are returned to China, they face certain persecution and, possibly, death. To do otherwise would display a flaw in our national character.
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Les says:
If these people are found to be innocent then they should be compensated by America and then returned to wherever they had been first detained. Read more »
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Sam says:
James - these people are not criminals. They have not been found guilty by a military tribunal let alone any civilian court that follows established rules of evidence etc. I’m constantly perplexed by a (seemingly) persuasive belief that any person who is arrested or interviewed by the police is guilty.… Read more »
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