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Terrorism in Australia To fight terrorism, government officials in Australia are cooperating closely with key allies and other major partners, including the Southeast Asia area, to stop and bring all terrorist down with justice and try to prevent future terrorist attacks with the help of Australia’s substantial international counter-terrorism efforts. This group mostly works on intelligence diplomacy, countering a threat that could be chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear terrorism against Australia. The other stuff they work on/improve is making law enforcement, border, and transport security defense, building legal capacity, and terrorist financial stuff so they can get better at it and try to keep the public safe. Their main elements to Australia’s international counter-terrorism efforts, however, is the Bilateral agreement that agency to agency cooperation. That agency to agency cooperation is with Southeast Asia, the Multilateral and regional engagement with the UN, the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), the Pacific Island Forum (PIF), and the G8 Counter-Terrorism Action Group (CTAG) officials to discuss the matters at hand about terrorism.

Australia now has a Counter-Terrorism White Paper that about the objectives and means for the government to go after terrorist and terrorist groups that deal with terrorism and the four key elements against terrorist attacks are: protection, analysis, response, and resilience. This was an appointed position made by the Australian government in Sept. 2008.

The person that is charge of this position are mostly responsible for implementing international counter terrorism for Australia and has efforts and means to stop terrorism, but their job is to help coordinate cooperation, operational collaboration, and capacity building between their agencies and other international counter-terrorism partners/allies.

The Department of Counter-Terrorism role is to have international links to lead negotiations on counter-terrorism agreement and have daily meetings with other countries, and research/give advice on international terrorism developments for other countries. Their other roles are to engage in international interfaith outreach activities with other countries, and ensure the securities and integrity of Australia’s passport system and Australia embassies and consulates abroad, and to promote activities to counter the threat of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear terrorism. The Department of Counter-Terrorism is also suppose to administer legislative agreements to freeze terrorist assets, support and coordinate capacity building invectives for other Australian agencies while supporting and developing international projects that build resilience against extremist groups that deal with terrorist activities.

The Department of Counter-Terrorism advises Australian residents and business that are traveling overseas about terrorism-related security threats if they are travel to a country which has problems with terrorist; liaise with foreign diplomats and consular missions in Australia to protect them on their visit to Australia and around Australia from the help of Australian agencies, and to ensure a comprehensive and integrated policy approach with other countries, to combat terrorism internationally with other ministries for international counter-terrorism engagement.

For Australia to meet UN Security Code for international obligations to freeze terrorist assets, the Australian government passed laws that made sure that any asset owned or controlled by a terrorist and was made available to them, would be arrest for doing so. This law now makes the DFAT keep a close eye on Australia financial sector that have frozen assets, be accounted for. The DFAT also tells Australia businesses that do exports; they can’t do business with terrorist or terrorist groups. If they do, they will be arrested and close the business.

Australia has had modern acts of terrorism since the 60’s, but didn’t have enacting legislation until the 70’s. The type of terrorism they see is Transnational Terrorism, a terrorist group that is a threat to Australia, has driven misinterpretation of Islam. The only terrorist attacks that have happen in Australia are the Sydney Hilton Bombing, the Turkish Consulate Bombing, the 2002 Bali Bombing, and the 2004 Australian Embassy Bombing over a span of 26 years.

Iceland Terrorism There has been no threat of terrorism that I know at this point; however, the U.K. has put an Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act of 2001 on Iceland financial system. The reason why they did this was to protect their own assets they had in the banks in Iceland because the financial crisis that Iceland had. The U.K. also didn’t want one of Iceland Banks to fail to make their economy fail. To make sure that the financial crisis never happens again the U.K. has frozen all assets that Iceland had and has been turn over to the U.K.

The reason why Iceland is not been effected by terrorism at all is because I think the terrorist know where it is and they never hear about Iceland in the news that much. The other thing that keeps terrorist away from knowing were Iceland is that it is a very isolated from the mainland of North America and Europe, that traveling by boat takes a while to get there, including the very few planes that Iceland gets at Keflavík International Airport. The people keep to themselves and they are very quiet. They major thing I think is weird is that they barely get any immigrants that move and live in the area at all. It’s just most local people that live in Iceland and everyone knows everyone in Iceland. That is why I think Iceland has never dealt or had problems with terrorism in the country.