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It will help curb identity fraud and possible misuse by people smugglers, terrorists and other transnational criminals.

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 Fraud

I think in turn the media has become very interested in this specific case, and has gone into an enormous amount of detail.

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 Media

So this is all part of a free society. People are entitled to hold whatever view they want, and the media can report things how they wish.

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 Australian Politician People

that there are some people on earth who are so wicked and so evil that nothing can be done but to confront them.

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 Earth

We think, at the end of the day, it makes a great deal more sense to have dialogue with North Korea, rather than to freeze them out of regional and international arrangements,

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Countries in the region must learn from the SARS experience,

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 Experience

the most secure Australian passport ever produced.

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The kangaroos appear to hop up and down when the page is moved backwards and forwards, and my department thinks that that is a very nice touch,

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We have said many times before that ... at the very least, Indonesia is responsible for the security situation in East Timor,

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 Security

The onus of that task falls on the armed forces and the police force in East Timor and they haven't done a good job in recent times. It's important that they perform more effectively and do everything they can to stop the violence and move to disarm the two sides -- the paramilitaries and the pro-independence side,

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 Force