This International Dateline episode includes three segments: Gerry Adams Interview, Foot in Mouth, and ASIO Leaks.

Gerry Adams Interview  
While London implements the security lessons learned throughout the IRA campaign, the IRA leaders gave the order "stand down".  An elated Tony Blair hailed the shock move as "a step of unparalleled magnitude" and met with Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams to begin a staggered pullout of British troops from Northern Ireland. In total, 37,000 people died in the war and as Gerry Adams points out; there are still more British soldiers in Northern Ireland than Iraq.  Dateline's George Negus interviews Gerry Adams to learn about the IRA's motivations. 

Foot in Mouth 
Dateline's Peter Martin investigates the decision by Australian government bureaucrats that risked a $13-billion catastrophe by allowing beef to be imported from Brazil - a country with a history of the dreaded foot-and-mouth disease.  In late 2004, the government organization, Bio Security Australia permitted the Heinz company to import a shipment of beef from Brazil.  Raising the question; how could they have allowed the importation without first investigating the situation in Brazil?

Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) Leaks 
Since the London terror attacks both Australian Prime Minister John Howard and his Attorney-General, Philip Ruddock, have indicated they think their country's anti-terror laws may need to be hardened. As things stand, ASIO already has sweeping powers to question and detain people, including secrecy provisions that effectively close off any public scrutiny. Dateline's Thom Cookes has been looking at two recent cases of these laws in action. What Thom found is that when these secrecy provisions are accompanied by damaging leaks to the media, both the rights of the suspects and the accountability of the government are threatened. 

About International Dateline 

SBS Dateline, which began in 1984, is Australia's longest-running international current affairs program. It has a well-earned reputation for authoritative and incisive reporting. Dateline has taken the traditional way of producing TV current affairs and turned it on its head. Reporters who used to travel with a cameraperson and sound recordist now travel alone and have the responsibility of both filming and reporting their stories. The reporters became video-journalists, gaining access to people and places that the conventional camera crews cannot.