Podcaster's Journal: Aussies back tougher anti-terrorist steps for airports

The ABC (Australia) reports that the Australian public continue to be more than willing to continue to trade freedoms for perceptions of safety when it comes to air travel.

Security company UNISYS, who commissioned the survey, say that 98% of people want more airport security while over half of the population are increasingly afraid of national and 'internet' security. Apparently security theater is still all the rage even in countries without any meaningful history of internal terrorism.

- Podcaster

Data from the surveys

[Podcaster]

From TFA [unisys.com.au]

• 54 per cent of Australians now extremely or very concerned about war or terror attack - up nine per cent
• 58 per cent now extremely or very concerned about credit card / debit card fraud - up 5 per cent
• One third of Australians extremely or very concerned about their ability to meet essential financial obligations - up eight per cent
• 62 per cent of Australians extremely or very concerned about unauthorised access to or misuse of personal information - up seven per cent
• 42 per cent extremely

Re:

[Megaport]

It is interesting that the corporate interests of UNISYS are not necessarily the same as our political powers on this issue. Think about it for a minute, here we are half a decade into the War On Terror, and the rate of alarm in the general population at our risk of terrorism is still shooting up like a rocket. Hard to say the war is working, eh?

-M