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Be Australian--be afraid?

Publication: Arena Magazine
Publication Date: 01-FEB-03 		Format: Online - approximately 949 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Be Australian--be afraid?(anxiety created by national security campaign)(Editorial)

Article Excerpt
The ship has sailed and like the troops on board we other Australians at home are afraid. We are entering a time, under the catch-all legitimation of the `war on terror', that will be marked by constant conflict. When the enemy is indistinct and the threat of attack is seen as pervasive, then a war footing can become a way of life. We are in danger, not just from bombs and gas attacks but also from the fear of those attacks. The risk of a self-perpetuating state of alarm and readiness for war can be seen in the strange conflation of Osama bin Laden with Saddam Hussein. In the pursuit of the forever absent `smoking gun', this war will find its enemies where it can.

With the launch of Australia's national security campaign--made up of the almost oxymoronic slogan `Be alert...

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