Bill Tupman, Honorary Research Fellow in Criminology, was invited to deliver a series of presentations in Australia during September 2011.

His tour began at the Safeguarding Australia 2011 Conference in Canberra on 14 September, with a talk on 'The Terror-Organised Crime Nexus', then moved on to the Australian National University on 19 September, where he spoke on the recent UK riots. On 20 September he delivered a similar paper to the Australian Federal Police entitled 'Unholy Alliance? Rioters and Police against the UK Government Cuts and Reform Agenda'.

After presenting 'Ten Myths of Terrorism' at the Australian Institute of Criminology he delivered a related work-in-progress, 'Ten Myths of Cybercrime', to a smaller workshop at the same institution, before moving on to Melbourne to address AUSTRAC, the Australian Financial Intelligence Unit, on 'Ten Myths of Terrorism' again, along with attending a video conference seminar for the Faculty of Business and Law at the Waurn Ponds campus of Deakin University in Geelong.

He then spoke on 'Ten Myths' at the Centre for Excellence in Policing at Griffith University, Brisbane, before returning to Geelong for the Australia and New Zealand Society of Criminology where he (briefly!) gave the after-dinner address on Cybercrime. On his way back home, he even found time to stop in Hong Kong to give a presentation on UK rioting to the Policing Studies Forum at Hong Kong University.

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