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2009.
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Following its election in 2007, the Labour government imposed a moratorium on export of Australian uranium to India. This article argues that with the Indo-US deal and concomitant agreements now in place, Australia should agree to export uranium to India. It does so on the grounds that the agreements will adequately protect Australian uranium from misuse, will not unduly test the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) regime, could open out opportunities to meet important safety concerns, could help stabilise potentially dangerous vertical and horizontal proliferation and could also mitigate the region's burgeoning production of greenhouse gases. In supporting the agreements through nuclear trade with India, however, Australia should use any influence it is able to garner thereby to ensure that the Indo-US agreement itself is not seen as part of an attempt on the part of the United States (US), or any other power, to harness India as a means of containing China, and thus exacerbating what could become a destabilising tendency in the region.
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144125
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Criminals flourish at sea, provided it remains an isolated environment in which they can hide. The longer they remain hidden, the more confident they become and the more robust their illegal operations. As all governments in these economic times attempt to make the most out of the least, the most effective mechanisms for the region to be able to interdict crimes at sea, is to share information, and most importantly, ensure that we are working on the same solution to what is a shared problem. Australia's experience in three areas, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, assisted illegal migration and maritime counter terrorism, provides examples of why information sharing and a cooperative stance is so important for nations of the Indian Ocean region.
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