Australia Widens Maritime Security Zone
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Australia plans to enforce a maritime security zone more than 1,100 miles out to sea, far beyond its territorial waters, to boost defenses against possible terror attacks on its soil and offshore oil and gas facilities, the prime minister said Wednesday.
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Australia announces plans to create a security zone around its coastline, five times larger than its territorial waters.
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President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said  on Friday the Philippines&#39; new security pact with Australia  would make the Southeast Asian region safer and more secure  from Islamic militants.
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_ Australia plans to closely monitor ships beyond its territorial waters in a move to boost the country&#39;s defenses against possible terror attacks on its soil and offshore oil and gas facilities, Prime Minister John Howard said
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Australia on Thursday warned China's rapid military expansion risked causing greater instability in the region as Prime Minister John Howard launched a new doctrine calling for military operations far from home.
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A WEEK ago the Australian Government was talking about moving the Australian Embassy in Baghdad to a highly fortified zone. It followed a major review of security of Australian interests in hot spots prompted
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By Channel NewsAsia&#39;s Indonesia Bureau Chief Haseenah Koyakutty. SYDNEY: Australia&#39;s Defence Minister Robert Hill is in Jakarta where there is an uproar over Australian Premier John Howard&#39;s plan to create a maritime surveillance zone to screen ships.
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Australia will spend 591 million dollars (460 million US) boosting security at its overseas missions in the aftermath of the Jakarta embassy bombing in September, the government said.
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Australia will deploy a ship fitted with machine guns to monitor Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean, a report said Tuesday.
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Australia will bolster its military force in Iraq's southern Muthana province with an extra 38 troops and four armored vehicles, the defense minister said Monday.
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Australia&#39;s government will spend A$591 million ($455 million) to upgrade security at its overseas missions and embassies over the next five years, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said.
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Australia and the Philippines sign a security deal aimed at cracking down on regional terror groups.
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Australia will send an extra 150  troops to Afghanistan due to the deteriorating security  situation, Prime Minister John Howard said on Wednesday,  briefly boosting Canberra's commitment to Afghanistan to more  than 600.
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Australia's most populous state has announced it will give counter-terrorism police increased powers to carry out covert surveillance to help them break up extremist cells.
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Australia plans to strengthen immigration law with tough tests on language and culture.
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Australia will send planes and a ship to conduct surveillance of Japanese whaling ships off Antarctica, the government announced Wednesday.
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SYDNEY, Australia  - A new Australian patrol ship armed with two machine-guns will scour the country's territorial waters in a "deadly serious" mission to stop illegal fishermen from taking Australia's fish, officials announced Friday.