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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Australian Prime Minister John Howard announced plans Thursday to beef up counterterror laws, including letting police electronically track terror suspects for up to a year and hold them up to 14 days without charges.
There has never been a major terror attack on Australian soil, but Howard's close links to President Bush and strong support for the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan raise fears that Australia could become a terror target.
"We are unfortunately living in an era and a time when unusual but necessary measures are needed to cope with an unusual and threatening situation," Howard said in a televised news conference in Canberra.
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