Australia -

In recent weeks, Australia has seen four acts of terrorism, all seemingly directed at the communist Government.

The bombings may represent the beginnings of a slip of power that the Communist State has not experienced since it first gained power in 1958.

Over the past few decades, there have been many acts of terrorism, most notably the Central Tower Bombing of 1984. However none of the acts occured with the rapidity of the most recent attacks, with only weeks seperating one attack from the next. In the Past, the State has always been very quick to bring members of revolutionary orginisations in, and send them to the work camps that have been set up in the Simpson Desert.

The camps over the past 30 years have claimed an estimated 70,000 lives, with nearly twice that number incarcerated for one reason or another over that time.

The Ministry of Public Security, the State's Domestic Intelligence Organisation, has generally worked very well to stop terrorism before it resulted in damage, etc., and these latest bombings, and the fact that they took place, may indicate that the government is beginning to loose its control over the population.

Australia, which exists essentially behind an Iron Curtain, through which no news of the outside world passes, has experienced a lot of civil unrest in recent months as the domestic terrorism has destabilised the delicate equilibrium that state control dictates with paranoia, with citizens demanding that more be done to protect them. This is bad for the People of Australia as they are only giving the state an excuse to extend their already frighteningly stringent controls, and only ensures that any successful terrorist attacks are larger and more deadly than those that came before.

Whilst the US and the SRA have not always been on the best of terms as a result of Australia's close association with the People's Republic of China, there is hope of closer ties between the two nations in the future, with the coming visit by President Johnson to Australia, where he will discuss possible trade and technology ties. A Whitehouse spokesperson has said that the threat of domestic terrorism in Australia will not deter the President from making his history-making visit next month.

In the meantime, however, the world can expect more human rights abuses from Australia as it moves to close down any possible unrest which could cause upset and loss of face for the nation.