Tampa, Bali bombings, 9/11 and the Kyoto Protocol: today's cabinet paper release shows what worried Australia in 2002
- Written by David Lee, Associate Professor of History, UNSW Sydney
NAA: A14482, 020309DI-03 AUSPIC/Photographer Peter WestEvery year, the National Archives of Australia releases the cabinet records from 20 years earlier, and this year’s batch is out today.
This release, from the cabinet records of 2002, is framed by two events of the previous year.
The first took place in August 2001, when Australian troops...




