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Month: March 2019

Zhengyou
Beyond Pacific

New Zealand, China, and the limits of friendship

March 30, 2019

Whatever the current state of New Zealand – China relations, writes chief editor Nicholas Dynon, Wellington would do well to stick to sinologists for understanding China and to diplomats for communicating about China. Media coverage of […]

Crowded places
Counter-Terrorism

Christchurch Mosque Attacks: A Tipping Point for New Zealand

March 20, 2019

New Zealand is experienced in responding to crises, write Dr Bridgette Sullivan-Taylor (University of Auckland) and Dr Layla Branicki (Macquarie University), but achieving resilience requires a joined-up approach before crises hit. New Zealanders are collectively […]

Call out extremism
Counter-Terrorism

Interview: Call out extremist behaviour, define underpinning values

March 20, 2019

Dr Richard Shortt, former Combined Threat Assessment Group manager (New Zealand Police/NZ Security Intelligence Service) and national security policy advisor (Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet), suggests the need for a circumspect response to extremism. […]

countering terror
Counter-Terrorism

Countering terrorism where there used to be no terrorism to counter

March 20, 2019

The failure to prevent the Christchurch attack is a collective one, writes Dr John Battersby of Massey University’s Centre for Defence and Security Studies. It is a horribly uneasy and uncomfortable feeling to review one’s […]

Surveillance ethics
Investigations

Surveillance: Legal and ethical considerations for Private Investigators

March 12, 2019

David Horsburgh CPP PSP PCI writes that the 18 December report of the SSC Inquiry into the use of external security consultants by government agencies raises need for debate of our industry’s legal and ethical […]

Security trends 2019
Features

Focus on Security: Top five security trends for 2019

March 12, 2019

The theme of Australia’s Security Exhibition & Conference 2019 is ‘Focus on security’. The need and demand for security, state the event’s organisers, is evident and the idea behind the theme is to bring it to […]

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