Safeguarding Australia Conference, 2005

RNSA was proud to again be been involved in Safeguarding Australia conference, 2005 including the SET Summit on Counter-Terrorism Technology.

Over 300 people attended the event in Canberra. All three days of the event highlighted the contribution that engineering can make to national security, either directly or indirectly. For example, the proposed maritime surveillance system will only be delivered by integrating existing systems, while the re-development of the Melbourne Cricket Ground required clever engineering.

The conference was opened by the Attorney-General, The Hon. Philip Ruddock, MP. One of his most interesting points was how he viewed the phases of protecting Australia against terrorism. He considered that Australia has experienced three phases and we are currently in the third one.

The "first phase" was the immediate aftermath of September 11 2001, when we hardened obvious targets and quickly boosted the capability of our various security agencies to detect and prevent acts of terrorism.

The "second phase" of our response involved refining our approach by reviewing what we had achieved and identifying opportunities for greater improvement. This phase necessarily drew the business community and Australia's industrial operations into a stronger engagement.

The third phase consists of covering off on important but less urgent priorities, such as protecting improbable but high consequence targets. It also involves drawing the community, local government and the business sector more deeply into Australia's fight against terrorism.

The SET Summit on the last day of the event saw a range of varied technical presentations ranging from the practicalities of national ID card options to blast modelling and from countering shoulder-launched missiles to the future trends in CCTV technology. In particular, we would like to thank the following for their presentation at the SET Summit:

Presentations from the Safeguarding Australia Conference

A number of the presentations from the conference are available at http://www.safeguardingaustraliasummit.org.au/program.html. The ones listed are those which have been supplied by the presenter. Some presentations not be provided due to their sensitivity.
A 235-page book has been produced containing 16 papers from the refereed stream of the SET Summit. The book is available for purchase for $35 including postage. See below.

Due to the interest shown by the audience in papers from the two tech update streams at the SET Summit, we are considering producing a volume of these presentations. Progress in this will be announced in the future newsletters.

Publications

Recent advances in counter-terrorism technology and infrastructure protection
This 235-page book contains the proceedings of the 2005 Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) Summit. The Summit showcased cutting edge research and accomplishments in SET. The proceedings contained the refereed papers from the Summit.

 

The papers are:

• Eleven principles of creativity and terrorism by D.H. Cropley, Systems Engineering and Evaluation Centre,   University of South Australia


• The development of a model for testing and evaluation of security equipment within Australian Standard / New Zealand Standard AS/NZS 4360:2004 - Risk Management by David E.L. Jones and Clifton L. Smith, Security Systems Research and Testing Laboratory, International Centre for Security and Risk Sciences, Edith Cowan University


• Security modelling for risk assessment by M.A. Branagan, W.J. Caelli and D. Longley, Information Security Institute, Queensland University of Technology


• Automatic handwritten signature verification system for Australian passports by Vamsi K. Madasu, Brian C. Lovell and Kurt Kubik, School of ITEE, University of Queensland


• Risk assessment and mitigation of blast damage to built infrastructure by M.G. Stewart and M.D. Netherton, Centre for Infrastructure Performance and Reliability, School of Engineering, The University of Newcastle


• Numerical simulation of blast wave propagation in a building structure by X.Q. Zhou, H. Hao and A.J. Deeks, School of Civil &Resource Engineering, The University of Western Australia


• Incident notification: requirements and frameworks by Renato Iannella, National ICT Australia


• Study of risk management systems for critical infrastructure protection by R. Kusumo and J.P.T. Mo, CSIRO Manufacturing and Infrastructure Technology


• Parametric analysis of building structure response to ground excitations of different frequencies and duration by H. Hao and B. Pillage, School of Civil and Resource Engineering, The University of Western Australia


• Numerical prediction of rock mass damage and safe separation distance between underground chambers under explosion loads by C. Wu and H. Hao, School of Civil &Resource Engineering, The University of Western Australia


• Towards intelligent networked video surveillance for the detection of suspicious behaviours by M.J. Brooks, A.R. Dick and A. van den Hengel, School of Computer Science, University of Adelaide


• Deployment of passive radio frequency identification systems for remote vehicle tracking by J.P.T. Mo and R. Kusumo, CSIRO Manufacturing and Infrastructure Technology


• Recent developments in control room and infrastructure protection by V. Svars, R. Svars and S. Hada, Vistek, Melbourne


• Performance of ultra-high strength concrete panels subjected to blast loading by Tuan Ngo, Priyan Mendis and Nelson Lam, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, The University of Melbourne and Brian Cavill, VSL Pty Ltd


• Design and development of a portable, lightweight and rapidly deployable vehicle barrier by Nigel Buckley and Zac Macher, AVS-elli


• Fragmentation and weaponisation of buildings: A review by A Gupta, R Lumantarna, T Ngo, P Mendis and C Flaherty, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, The University of Melbourne

A hardcopy of the book costs $37.30 (including postage and handling in Australia) while a pdf of it costs $30.00. To purchase it, please download the purchasing form. ISBN 0-9757873-1-4