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Brett Bowden
"MERV Bendle suggested that Australian academics don't take terrorism and hence research on terrorism seriously. Among other significant contributions to our understanding of the terrorist threat, Carl Ungerer (University of Queensland) has written about the threat of agroterrorism to Australia in the international journal Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. Michael Davis (University of Tasmania) and I are contextualising the threat of terrorism in Europe in an edited volume with a preface by Geoffrey Robertson titled Terror: From Tyrannicide to Terrorism in Europe, 1605 to the Future (University of Queensland Press, 2007).
Five years ago it would have been difficult to find a university in this or many other countries that offered extensive undergraduate and postgraduate courses on terrorism and security. Today it is difficult to find one that doesn't. Far from being complacent and safely tucked away in their comfort zones, Australian academics are leading the charge in meeting the challenges of terrorism head-on."
