Australia, Indonesia consider defense pact
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Australia is considering a security pact with Indonesia if incoming president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono agrees, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said Monday.
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Australia is developing a plan to take a leading role in the reconstuction of tsunami-stricken Indonesia with an aid package worth more than 500 million dollars (385 million US), reports say.
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The Australian government on Wednesday warned against a possible terror attack shortly in Indonesia while Indonesia played down the warning.
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CANBERRA - Australia wants to base counter-terrorism teams in Southeast Asia, the government said on Monday as it traded blows with opposition Labor over the best way to wage the war on terror ahead of an Oct. 9 election.
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Australia is considering plans to double its troop deployment to Afghanistan to about 1,000 to head off an expected spring resurgence of al Qaeda and Taliban fighters, Defense Minister Brendan Nelson said on Thursday. But Nelson ruled out any plans to follow Britain's lead and reduce Australia's military commitments in Iraq, saying any phased withdrawal of soldiers helping provide security in Iraq's south would put the lives of those who remain in danger.
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Australia plans to strengthen its  coastal security with a controversial surveillance footprint  that stretches south of New Zealand to north of Indonesia.
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Australian prime minister John Howard proposes an anti-terror force which could be deployed elsewhere in Asia.
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Australia, Indonesia and East Timor should   aim to increase cooperation at upcoming three-country talks,   Jakarta's foreign minister said on Sunday, amid renewed   concerns about stability in the tiny fledging nation.
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Australian political leaders have gone into hot debate Monday as how to eliminate threat of regional terrorism, either through cooperation with local countries, or a pre-emptive strikes.
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Australia plans to strengthen its coastal security with a controversial surveillance footprint that stretches south of New Zealand to north of Indonesia.
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By staff writers and wires. PRIME MINISTER John Howard wants to strike a new anti-terrorism treaty with Indonesian President-elect Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono after he is sworn in as leader of the world&#39;s largest Muslim nation.
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Australia and the United States are set to become even closer allies under proposals to allow the US military to test new-generation weaponry in Australia, a defence consultant said.
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SYDNEY - Australian Prime Minister John Howard assured Indonesia on Tuesday that Australia is unlikely to launch a preemptive attack on its neighbor to take out a terrorist target.
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AUSTRALIA is on the verge of a closer strategic partnership with Indonesia as the Howard Government considers a new security pact with the world&#39;s most populous Muslim nation.
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Australia plans to create what it  believes will be the most lethal force of fighter jets in  Southeast Asia by equipping its aircraft with long-range  missiles in a move critics said could antagonize neighbors.
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Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said it was possible Australia could negotiate an agreement which would incorporate an existing memorandum of understanding on terrorism.
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Australia is to send a navy ship and helicopters to tsunami-hit Indonesia and has offered to set upa field hospital in Aceh area, Prime Minister John Howard said on Thursday.