Australia shifts focus onto South Pacific

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An Australian Government think-tank says Canberra agencies are changing to give a greater focus to the South Pacific.
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute says police rather than the military are now in the front line of the security effort in the Pacific.
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The study says that with Australian police in Timor, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea, a higher proportion of the federal police are deployed overseas than the defence force.
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The Attorney-General's Department will also create a South Pacific section.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1117092.htm