9/11 raised security importance: Howard

Sydney (AAP) - 11 Sept - Former prime minister John Howard says the terrorism attacks in the US and Bali a decade ago lifted the importance of national security with Australians.
Mr Howard said the terrorist acts on September 11 in the US followed by the Bali bombings 13 months later had a "very big impact" on the government and the population.
Nearly 3000 people died in the US following an orchestrated attack by al-Qaeda in 2001.
In October 2002, a total of 202 people were killed, including 88 Australians, in Bali.
"It mattered a great deal," Mr Howard told Sky News on Sunday.
"People began to think of national security in a way I hadn't experienced in all the time I had been in politics."
Mr Howard was elected to federal parliament in 1974.
The former PM said the attacks had also elevated the significance of national security at a policy level.
"What it did was to give national security equal billing with economic management," Mr Howard said.
"Up until then my prime ministership had really been dominated by economic management."