Objective: This assessment requires you to critically analyse your organisation's readiness and response mechanisms in the context of terrorism and intentional mass violence events, focusing on your state of origin, the current threat and most likely attack methodology.

This assessment has three parts.

Part 1: Response Analysis.

Task description: Review the response arrangements for your state in the event of ongoing terrorism or intentional mass violence event.
Discuss: What are your organisation's roles and responsibilities during the acute phase of such an event?
Discuss: Do these roles and responsibilities effectively address the therapeutic vacuum in these situations?

Part 2: Terrorism Organisations Analysis

Task description: Identify three terrorist organisations from the Australian National Security Database.
Provide a brief synopsis of each selected group's driving ideologies.
Cross-reference these groups with the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) to determine their most common attack modality.

Part 3: Historical Attack Modalities and Organisational Preparedness

Task description: Using the Global Terrorism Database, identify the three most common historical attack modalities in Australia.
Assess whether your organisation is adequately resourced to address the injury profiles common to these attack modalities based on your current operational and tactical medicine knowledge.

Conclusion:

Task description: Conclude your essay by evaluating your organisation's capacity to address the therapeutic vacuum created by a terrorist attack in Australia. This should consider historical and favoured attack modalities of currently active terrorist groups.

Note: Your assessment should be grounded in relevant data from the databases provided in the task descriptions and incorporate critical analysis of your organisation's preparedness and response capabilities.

There is a minimum word count of 2000 words and a maximum word count of 2200 words, excluding references for your assessment. Your assessment must be clear and concise. The assessment will be assessed per the information and rubric provided on the unit Moodle page. It should be presented in an essay format. This assessment task is worth 30% of the final mark. 

Objective: This assessment is an opportunity to be creative and to speculate how a terrorist organisation would use emerging technologies to conduct an attack. However, the assessment must be grounded in reality and point to contemporary evidence of the use cases of emerging technologies and innovation by terrorist organisations.

Requirements: 

Provide a speculative use case scenario of how a currently existing terrorist organisation might use an emerging technology in a terrorist attack. The chosen terrorist organisation must be currently active in Australia. Consider the chosen organisation's idealogy, goals and capabilities as a foundation for target selection and attack capabilities. Consider that an attack might consist of multiple modalities and could be conducted in phases or stacks. For example, a vehicle ramming might be followed up with a stabbing spree like the 2017 London Bridge attack. Discuss the implications of these technologies in attacks and potential pitfalls for first responders during the immediate aftermath of a terrorist incident. Briefly assess the readiness of current state and federal policies to address the challenges posed by technologically-driven attacks and propose actionable strategies to enhance first responders' preparedness and response capabilities as they relate to the attack methods you have chosen to consider. Support your analysis with concrete examples and references, highlighting the intersection of emerging technologies and the implications for those on the front lines of counter-terrorism medicine efforts.

There is a minimum word count of 2000 words and a maximum word count of 2200 words, excluding references for your assessment. Your assessment must be clear and concise. The assessment will be assessed per the information and rubric provided on the unit Moodle page. It should be presented in an essay format. This assessment task is worth 30% of the final mark. 

Objective: Consider Assessment two and the hypothetical terror attack.

Develop a comprehensive medical response plan for the hypothetical terrorism-related attack, considering critical elements specific to the attack modalities you described in the assessment two submission.

Requirements:

Use your current state policy for response to mass casualty incidents as a framework for your plan. Outline the key components of your plan, including the coordination of medical resources, support agencies, and communication strategies to ensure an effective and timely response. Your plan must align with the critical elements described in your Assessment two essay submission.  

A critical element in the context of this assessment is a feature of the hypothetical attack you described in assessment two. For instance, the critical elements of the Paris attacks of November 2015 are:

·         Simultaneous coordinated assault by multiple attack cells.

·         Use of explosive devices to target civilians and funnel them towards secondary attacks.

·         Small arms attack followed by a hostage-taking.

There is a minimum word count of 2000 words and a maximum word count of 2200 words, excluding references for your assessment. Your assessment must be clear and concise. The assessment will be assessed per the information and rubric provided on the unit Moodle page. It should be presented in an essay format. This assessment task is worth 40% of the final mark.