Raising of Terror Threat to Australia & full disclosure required methinks
I guess the slanting of news or at least the 'increase in threat' levels is convenient now the Federal Government is seeking to justify military actions in relation to both the Syrian and the Iraqi situations.
HOWEVER an explanation of the 'imported threat levels' that accompany many countries attending high profile major international events should also be declared as significant factors that influence threat levels in Australia, in particular the upcoming G20 meeting in Brisbane!
Let's not supply the real story that will explain in a 'terror free' manner the true causes for the likely upgraded Aussie Threat Levels ....
MAN OH MAN OH MAN ....
surely Australian citizens deserve transparency in regards to these threat assessment process, at least where the information is PUBLICLY AVAILABLE AND BROADCAST WIDELY by the very Government who supports these threat assessment processes and level allocations!!!!!
G2O EVENT SCHEDULE
There are a couple of Melbourne meetings and Cairns prior to the Brisbane ones, I would be interested to know, if I were doing the risk assessments, how many of the VIP's are coming early to holiday in Sydney? That would certainly put Sydney's threat level up as the NSW Police have announced. Not too many of these International VIP's make time for the Southern Hemisphere, and I don't see them missing out on the Sydney Tourist Sites just because the meeting is in Brisbane later in the year. I just wish they would report the reasons for raising the threat levels transparently, Abbott will hide behind these raised threat levels to take action in Syria and Iraq, when in fact they have little or no impact on the reason the threat levels need to be raised. This stuff makes me so cranky!!!!
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ReplyDeleteHmmm ... planning to go to war against another country certainly impacts on the Aussie Threat Levels, and those conducting the assessment of the current threat levels would have been privy to the MASSIVE influence over the threat to Australia. Bad form ABBOTT.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-21/g20-nations-divided-over-putin-ban-in-brisbane/5758536
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