John Coyne

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Policymakers Are Focussing On Drugs Australians Aren't Taking

They're worried about 'bath salts', but more people are abusing 'hillbilly heroin'.

28/03/2017 1:40 PM AEDT

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Xenophobic Migration Bans Won't Prevent Terrorism In America

In fact, it's highly likely that Trump's policy will do much more harm than good.

31/01/2017 1:35 PM AEDT

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A Potential Mass Migration Nightmare On Our Doorstep

It's a false assumption that Australia has passed the worst phase of its refugee challenge.

01/11/2016 5:36 AM AEDT

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Border Force Needs New Powers To Avoid Border Farce

It's time for the Turnbull government to reconsider the role of the Border Force and the legislative powers that it exercises. Last week, the Fair Work Commission made an order that the Community and...

14/10/2016 1:49 PM AEDT

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An Increase In Drug Seizures Doesn't Mean A Decrease In Drugs

The intent of the enforcement regime of Australia's national drug strategy shouldn't be to arrest more people, nor seize more drugs. Rather, the intent behind our illicit drug enforcement strategy should be to reduce the supply of these harmful drugs in our communities.

04/08/2016 3:19 PM AEST

Politicians don't understand the limits of intelligence

Chilcot's review reveals that there were indeed two fundamental problems with the intelligence-based decision making at the time of the Iraq war.

11/07/2016 12:17 PM AEST

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Australia's Migration System Needs To Go Through Security

The real problem arising from this week's revelations isn't so much the corruption of DIBP staff. It's the widespread criminality and system vulnerability present in Australia's visa regime.

05/07/2016 5:58 AM AEST

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International Policing Is On Death Row

We shouldn't be leaving it to our politicians to decide if and when we share information with foreign police where the death penalty may be at play.

13/05/2016 3:21 PM AEST

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UNGASS 2016: Evolution Rather Than Revolution In The War On Drugs

UNGASS 2016 was controversial by UN standards. While it stopped well short of a drug reform revolution, it has provided some very important first steps in the evolution of global drug policies.

02/05/2016 2:19 AM AEST

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The Intel On Intelligence Gathering In Times Of Terror

In the wake of the terror attacks in Paris, Jakarta and Belgium, intelligence collectors and police everywhere are under immense pressure to collect the necessary intelligence to protect us from future violence. In this pressure-cooker environment the intelligence and police agency red lines for acceptable covert intelligence collection are at risk of being blurred.

29/03/2016 12:06 PM AEDT

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China Has A Role To Play In Our National Ice Strategy

To have a lasting impact on the availability of ice, the Australian Federal Police will now need to pursue less tangible, but more complex and difficult strategies focused on addressing the diversion of drugs and precursors in the Chinese chemical and pharmaceutical industry.

03/03/2016 5:50 AM AEDT

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Does Racial Profiling Exist In Australia?

It's a truism that, regardless of your position on the issue, writing about racial profiling and law enforcement is controversial. One colleague recently went so far as to describe it to me as career suicide. But it's the very fact that racial profiling is an emotional topic which drives the need for more informed public debate and dialogue on its application in border security.

27/01/2016 5:06 AM AEDT

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The Winners And Losers Of Indonesia's War On Terror

Last week's attack serves as an indicator that the effectiveness of the Indonesian counter-terrorism intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance framework may be degraded in the face of the current terrorism trends.

19/01/2016 5:09 AM AEDT

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Heroin Use Could Be Making A Comeback

In Australia's popular culture, what celebrities do and what happens in the UK and US are important. And if this is true for Gen Y Australians, then increased heroin use shouldn't be a surprise.

06/01/2016 6:55 AM AEDT

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UNGASS 2016: Change To Global Drug Policy Unlikely

Next year's United Nation's General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem is, by UN standards, set to be controversial. But it is unlikely to be the game changer in global drug policy that some are seeking.

22/12/2015 5:28 AM AEDT

The Security Implications Of Efficiency Dividends

The number of Australian police operating overseas is rapidly reducing due to the continuous erosion of the Australian Federal Police's budget by bureaucratic demands for financial efficiency dividends. This is likely to have short and long-term security implications for Australians abroad and at home.

14/12/2015 3:41 PM AEDT

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Australia's Active-Shooter Lessons From The Paris Attacks

One of the first lessons from the Paris attacks for Australian policy makers is that, in light of a rising domestic terror threat, our active shooter police response capability needs to be rapidly enhanced.

19/11/2015 6:48 AM AEDT

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The Risky Business Of Border Security

Securing a nation's borders, in an absolute sense, is at best an aspirational goal. Even if it were possible to check every package and every person entering and leaving Australia, the economic impacts of doing so would be catastrophic.

11/11/2015 5:47 AM AEDT

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We Must Tackle Gen Y Jihadists' Trigger Points

For our Gen Y jihadists the seed of terrorism and extremism is more often than not planted through online grooming. Radicalisation takes place so quickly now: from online exploration to attack. To systematically counter this we need to understand the trigger points for change.

26/10/2015 6:03 AM AEDT

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30,000 Aspiring Australians Need A New PM To Address Old Issues

This issue is different from Nauru: these people are in Australia and most are on track to eventually become Australian citizens. The Turnbull Government just might be the one to sort out the mess and put 30,000 people's minds at rest.

12/10/2015 5:20 AM AEDT

John Coyne

Policymakers Are Focussing On Drugs Australians Aren't Taking

Xenophobic Migration Bans Won't Prevent Terrorism In America

A Potential Mass Migration Nightmare On Our Doorstep

Border Force Needs New Powers To Avoid Border Farce

An Increase In Drug Seizures Doesn't Mean A Decrease In Drugs

Politicians don't understand the limits of intelligence

Australia's Migration System Needs To Go Through Security

International Policing Is On Death Row

UNGASS 2016: Evolution Rather Than Revolution In The War On Drugs

The Intel On Intelligence Gathering In Times Of Terror

China Has A Role To Play In Our National Ice Strategy

Does Racial Profiling Exist In Australia?

The Winners And Losers Of Indonesia's War On Terror

Heroin Use Could Be Making A Comeback

UNGASS 2016: Change To Global Drug Policy Unlikely

The Security Implications Of Efficiency Dividends

Australia's Active-Shooter Lessons From The Paris Attacks

The Risky Business Of Border Security

We Must Tackle Gen Y Jihadists' Trigger Points

30,000 Aspiring Australians Need A New PM To Address Old Issues

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