Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

As I was saying, we do have men and women of the ADF currently deployed in Iraq and Syria, dealing with some of those very, very dynamic changes in Australia's security environment—or security threats, to use Senator Whish-Wilson's words. That is but one example of where we are dealing with a very challenging world environment.

Domestically and within our region, Defence is most definitely involved in and has a focus on this sort of activity internationally because of the sorts of issues that Senator Whish-Wilson has raised. Domestically and then within our region, we also have returned foreign fighters and nearby state fragility. Those sorts of issues are very dynamic ones. The white paper addresses it very directly. I fail to see what Senator Whish-Wilson is referring to. (Time expired)