Security risks to Australia

This tutorial essay will seek to give an analysis of potential security threats to Australia in the Asia Pacific. However due to word limit constraints a number of important issues are not able to be discussed these issues include the threat maritime crime against Australian vessels in international waters, illegal fishing within our territorial waters, small arms trafficking and the threat of infectious disease.

These are certainly interesting and therefore dangerous times to be alive many threats are facing our nation and its citizens not only in our homeland but anywhere we may travel in the world. Recent terrorist attacks on Australian targets in Bali have signalled that we can no longer stand idly by under the deluded impression that we are safe. It is time to act.

In light of recent attacks against our people it is appropriate that this paper begins with an analysis of threat of terrorist attack against Australia or Australian targets within the region. The threat o...