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Monday, 4 September 2000
Page: 17265


Senator FAULKNER (Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) (8:54 PM) —I assume that in the new call-out manual, which the minister indicated to us at an earlier stage in the committee debate will replace the Manual of Land Warfare—we do understand that that is the situation—there will need to be some form of guidance or definition to provide the appropriate guidance to field commanders who might find themselves in a situation contemplated by the bill. I assume that is a reasonable conclusion to come to; I do not know; I would like to hear from the minister on this point. But if that is a reasonable assumption, I wonder how it fits with the advice in relation to a capacity for this to be defined further in the bill itself. Could the minister give the committee some information in relation to the implications of guidance in the call-out manual on the issue that I raised in relation to further defining this issue in the bill?