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

I thank Senator Molan for his supplementary question. Australia is also playing a leading role in the fight against terrorism through our participation in regional and multilateral organisations, including the UN, ASEAN based forums and the Global Counterterrorism Forum. Both multilateral and regional fora play an important role in setting norms against terrorism, in promoting international cooperation against terrorism and in assisting our member states in capacity building. The Global Counterterrorism Forum focuses on supporting the UN's CT efforts through improving civilian capabilities and rule-of-law responses to terrorism. I look forward to representing Australia at the ninth meeting of the forum in New York later this month and will be highlighting our work on a range of initiatives to help countries build resilience against terrorist propaganda as well. In March this year, Australia hosted an ASEAN-Australia CT conference as part of a special summit in Sydney at which we signed an MOU to further enhance regional CT cooperation.