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Ironically, Les Luck is the Counter-Terrorism Ambassador

CZECH AGAINST DELIVERY: Are Your Initials JI?: If They Are Your File could be off Limits to the Public
Neither the Government nor a bureaucrat should be responsible for deciding which Freedom of Information requests should be denied by reason of national security. That is best left to a court and a judge.
Unfortunately, security has become a convenient label the Government can slap on information to stop it from becoming public.
· Terrorism to End Terrorism: Under cover of anti-terrorism ... fabrications of words could never ever take place

Premier Carr has said that we must use our intelligence resources – from raids and questioning to phone and Internet taps and all the rest – to ensure we have the jump on any planned terrorist action here.
· News from the SusSex Street: Operation Bouncing Czech
· Seismic listening devices and snake eye search cameras: surveillance of politically active (minds) suspects (smile)

If there was a time in living memory when here in NSW we faced comparable days of fear and uncertainty, it was during the darkest days of World War Two.
In 1942 Australia was under external threat and Australians were being killed in the battle for our security to our near north in South East Asia but also here in Sydney.
My mother tells me of the winter dark nights in May and June 1942 when shells from the submarines that launched the mini subs into Sydney Harbour whistled over her house in the Eastern suburbs.
Nineteen Australians were killed here in Sydney Harbour on the evening of May 31 as they slept on the HMAS Kuttabul.
But that was over 60 years ago, an event of history, and hard for us to fathom or understand or relate to the threat that we currently face.
· 10 November 2003: John Watkins MP [ via Google]