Ms Bernie Maguire:

I thank the Senator. Going back to the role of the Security Council, the Senator asked about legal advice. Anything we are doing is part of drafting the heads of the Bill. As we get into the text of the Bill, it is done with the support and advice of the Attorney General. That is where we are getting that advice, as well as our own research into it. There is also the full peacekeeping charter with the relevant pieces of chapters 6, 7 and 8, which we would be very happy to supply to the committee as part of its work.

On the dispatching of personnel overseas where their deployment is not as part of an international force and the other circumstances the Senator referred to, the type of examples given are covered or will be covered under the 2006 Act. The evacuation of citizens is one. The Senator spoke of a hijacked aircraft or an emergency situation. There is a list of circumstances where the military would be dispatched to assist.