Seminar: Is Serious & Organised Crime a National Security Issue?

Serious and organised crime has wide-ranging impacts for society, and these impacts can be severe.

But does serious and organised crime really threaten national security?

For this public seminar, the National Security College has assembled a distinguished panel of speakers, including:

- Professor Roderic Broadhurst, a Professor in the School of Regulation, Justice and Diplomacy in the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific.

He is a Chief Investigator engaged in CEPS projects.

Prof Broadhurst had extensive experience in criminal justice as a practitioner and researcher, and has held senior academic appoints in Australia and overseas.

- Professor Adam Graycar, the Dean of the Australian National Institute for Public Policy at the ANU and a former Dean of School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, Head of the Cabinet Office for the South Australian Government and Director of the Australia Institute of Criminology.

- John McFarlane, a Visiting Fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the ANU.

He has previously been Director of Intelligence at the Australian Federal Police and Executive Director of the Australian Member Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (AUS-CSCAP).

- Michael Outram, the Executive Director, Intelligence & Investigation Programs at the Australian Crime Commission.

He has extensive policing experience in the United Kingdom and Australia and has previously worked with Independent Commission Against Corruption in NSW.

The panel discussion will be followed by a question and answer session moderated by Professor Michael L’Estrange, Director of the National Security College.

RSVP by 18 August 2010.

This seminar is free and open to the public.