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

We are doing a great deal of work with our regional partners and allies across the region, particularly to prevent foreign fighters from spreading their toxic extremism in the Indo-Pacific. We continue of course, as I've said in the chamber before, to support our counter-Daesh campaigns in Iraq and in Syria. The continued success of the Iraqi security forces is very important to discrediting Daesh's narrative of success and their ability to export their extremism to the Indo-Pacific.

Importantly, at the moment we have members of the ADF working to support the armed forces of the Philippines through the deployment of our mobile training teams to share the insights that we have learned through our campaign against Daesh. We have an extensive program of counterterrorism engagement and capacity-building activities with our regional partners that include special forces training exercises, for example, with Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, India, Singapore, Japan and Brunei. We do counter-IED training with the Royal Thai Armed Forces and the Royal Thai Police. These are very valuable relationships— (Time expired)