Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will outline a new national security policy in the next few days as he has promised to deliver before the end of the parliamentary session which ends on Thursday.
The statement will become the government's overarching framework under which policies including the defence White Paper, expected early next year, will sit, an Australian Associated Press reported on Sunday.
It is widely anticipated Rudd will take a broad view of national security, including issues like climate change, terrorism, the possibility of failed states in the Pacific and more traditional defence concerns.
The statement may include the announcement of a national security adviser. One candidate is likely to be Duncan Lewis -- a senior national security bureaucrat inside the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.
Source: Xinhua
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