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America will
not protect us,
warns Rudd
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She fled to Sydney to save her life.
She was sent home – then killed
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THE Rudd Government has
acknowledged that the supremacy of the US has begun to
fade and Australia is preparing
for an uncertain future in which
it can no longer rely on the protection of its main ally.
In a fundamental shift in
defence plans, the Government
has explicitly declared that US
primacy in the Asia-Pacific – the
bedrock of the nation’s security
since World War II – may be
ending. The change, caused by
the rise of new great powers
such as China, is set to produce
growing regional tensions and a
‘‘sudden deterioration’’ in
Australia’s security.
A 20-year defence blueprint, to
be released by the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, today, prepares
for a multibillion-dollar build-up
of naval and air forces to ensure
that Australia can defend its
northern and sea approaches.
It says a regional shake-up is
under way but US supremacy will
not be blunted before 2030 and
assesses the chances of an attack
on Australia in the short term as
‘‘very remote’’.
The white paper, Defending
Australia In The Asia Pacific
Century: Force 2030, is the first
since 2000 and outlines a range
of security threats, including instability caused by the financial
crisis, cyber warfare, failed
states in the Pacific, Islamist terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, and climate change.
It warns that Australia must
ensure it can protect itself amid
an emerging range of great
powers in the region – particularly China, India and Russia –
which could lead to a ‘‘miscalculation’’ with disturbing consequences for Australia.
‘‘Australia has been a very
secure country for many decades, in large measure because
the wider Asia-Pacific region has
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AIR FORCE
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aircraft
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DEFENDING A NATION
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MORE REPORTS – NEWS, PAGE 7
enjoyed an unprecedented era of
peace and stability underwritten
by US strategic primacy,’’ the
paper says. ‘‘That order is being
transformed as economic
changes start to bring about
changes in the distribution of
strategic power. Risks resulting
from escalating strategic competition could emerge quite
unpredictably.’’
The Minister for Defence, Joel
Fitzgibbon, said the world faced
‘‘the beginning of the end’’ of
the unquestioned dominance of
Australia’s principal ally since
the Cold War.
The paper criticises China for
failing to explain its substantial
military build-up in recent
years, which appears to have exceeded the force needed for a
war over Taiwan. China’s military modernisation will be little
affected by the global financial
crisis and is set to limit the
ability of the US to control the
region, it says.
‘‘The pace, scope and structure of China’s military modernisation have the potential to give
its neighbours cause for concern
if not carefully explained, and if
China does not reach out to
others to build confidence regarding its military plans.
‘‘As other powers rise, and the
primacy of the US is increasingly
tested, power relations will inevitably change. When this happens there will be the possibility
of miscalculation . . . A potential
contraction of US strategic presence in the Asia-Pacific region,
with a requirement for allies and
friends to do more in their own
regions, would adversely affect
Australian interests, regional
stability and global security.’’
The paper affirms support for
the US alliance and for US-led
efforts to bolster global security
but warns Australia will not put
troops at risk ‘‘in distant
theatres of war where we have
no direct interests’’.
Instead, the Government has
focused on defending the borders of Australia, primarily by
building air and naval power to
protect the northern sea-air gap,
maritime approaches and offshore oil and gas reserves.
A range of large-scale purchases includes a doubling of the
submarine fleet to 12, about 100
F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, eight
frigates with submarine detection
capability and – as planned –
three air warfare destroyers. For
the first time Australia will acquire an arsenal of sea-based
long-range cruise missiles.
‘‘The ability to deter or defeat
armed attack on Australia will
continue to be the primary force
structure determinant . . . This
means focusing predominantly
on forces that can exert air
superiority and sea control in
our approaches.’’
The Government has kept its
commitment to boost the Defence budget by 3 per cent each
year until 2018, but plans to
scale this back to 2.2 per cent
until 2030.
It says an internal reform
program will save $20 billion.
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Threats ... Hajrudin Hasanovic, who killed his wife, Cassandra, inset, arrives at court. Main photo: PA News
CASSANDRA HASANOVIC was
convinced she was going to die
at the hands of her husband but
her pleas for help – in Australia
and Britain – fell on deaf ears.
‘‘He said he was going to chop
me up in little pieces and post
me piece by piece to my family,’’
she told police more than a year
before her death.
The nightmare tale of the
mother, 24, who was dragged
out of a car and stabbed to
death by her husband in front
of her mother and two young
sons in July, neared its climax in
a British court yesterday.
Mrs Hasanovic died hours
after begging British police to
drive her to a safe house: ‘‘I live
in fear for my safety. I am so
scared of him.’’
Her story was recounted this
week during the trial of Hajrudin
Hasanovic, 33, who was last
night found guilty of murder and
sentenced to a minimum of 18
years in jail.
The jury learned how he was
to have been deported to his
native Serbia after losing
custody of his children,
following his conviction for
sexually assaulting his wife.
They heard a damning story of
a woman whose fears were
ignored by authorities in two
hemispheres for more than 12
months.
The five-year marriage ended
in May 2007 after the sexual
assault and Mrs Hasanovic fled
to Australia, where she had
relatives. She lived in the safety
of Sydney’s western suburbs in
the fervent hope of seeking
custody of her sons.
But Lewes Crown Court, in
West Sussex, heard that
Australian authorities insisted
she return to Britain, arguing the
case had to be pursued there.
Philippa McAtasney, QC, who
opened the case for the
prosecution, told the court that
she returned to Britain at the
cost of her life.
In the months that followed
her return, police were called to
several violent confrontations
between the couple, and officers
equipped the young mother
with a panic alarm.
Mrs Hasanovic’s mother,
Sharon De Souza, broke down as
she described the terror inside
the car on July 29, when her sonin-law appeared from nowhere
and lunged at the car as she
prepared to drive her daughter
and grandsons to a refuge.
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First Australian swine flu victim: man quarantined in London
EXCLUSIVE
Kate Benson
Medical Reporter
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Is fear more contagious
than the disease, and
just as paralysing?
NEWS REVIEW
MORE REPORTS, NEWS, PAGE 8
TWO weeks ago Mark Robertson
was drinking beer on a Mexican
beach. Yesterday he was under
virtual house arrest, the first
Australian to be diagnosed with
the deadly swine flu.
A marketing manager from
Coogee, Mr Robertson, 23, has
spent the past five days behind
closed doors in a second-floor
flat in Islington in North London,
surrounded by tissues, pizza
boxes and two friends – who are
not infected but have been quarantined as a precaution.
He has been told by doctors it
could be six more days before he
is allowed contact with anyone
other than his housemates.
All three have been prescribed
Tamiflu and both housemates –
one from Australia, the other
from Britain – will be tested for
swine flu in the next few days.
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Paola Totaro
Herald Correspondent
in London
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A weary Mr Robertson flew
into Heathrow from Mexico City
on Thursday, April 23, one of
hundreds aboard a full flight.
After four months’ trekking
through the jungles of Central
and South America, his two
weeks ‘‘chilling on the beach’’ at
Puerto Escondido on Mexico’s
west coast were supposed to be a
reward for months of living in
budget accommodation. It
might have proved his downfall.
Mr Robertson arrived in
London feeling fine but jet
lagged. It was not until last
Sunday night that he started
feeling sick.
‘‘I went to the hospital in
Tottenham Court Road and that
was it,’’ he said. ‘‘Now I’ve been
told I can’t go out the door again
until next Thursday.’’
So how is he handling his isolation? ‘‘I’m sleeping a lot,
watching a lot of TV and just going stir crazy, really,’’ he told the
Herald yesterday.
‘‘We had some food in the
apartment anyway but today we
are waiting on groceries we
ordered on the internet. It’s
very dull.’’
Mr Robertson’s mother,
Cathy, said yesterday she had
emailed Mark as soon as he
landed in Britain to tell him of
the swine flu warnings.
‘‘I told him that if he had any
symptoms at all he should go
straight to a hospital. And he did.
He was feeling sniffly but now he
is being treated and his main
problem is boredom.’’
She said Mr Robertson had met
his brother, Glenn, in Peru and
the pair spent six weeks travelling
and climbing Machu Picchu before separating. Mr Robertson
then travelled alone through
Central America, taking a boat up
the Amazon River and trekking
through jungles.
‘‘He joked that he spent hundred of dollars on vaccinations . . .
and he ends up with swine flu.’’
Mark. The difference behind our
online savings account.
OR HAS HE?
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