Concetta Fierravanti-Wells (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for International Development and the Pacific) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Reynolds. We have increased our support to international mechanisms. For example, we have given $3 million to the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund since 2014 to strengthen resilience against violent extremism; we have contributed to the establishment of a Commonwealth secretariat CVE unit, with the contribution of $2.5 million; and we are promoting new ways of cooperation, including through a global counter-terrorism forum. In this financial year, for example, Australia will provide funding in practical ways in our region, for example, to the Asia Foundation, to conduct research on developing best practice to better guide our aid and our aid spending on CVE in the Asia-Pacific region, and also other small-scale funding to discrete, carefully targeted CVE projects in Asia.