CANBERRA, May 24 (Xinhua) -- The Australian government has not ruled out changing the law so that military personnel can be quickly called-in to deal with terrorist situations.
The government had not ruled out greater military involvement in terror situations, because current laws make it difficult for the military to be deployed quickly, said Australia's Attorney General George Brandis Thursday.
"It is important I think that when there is a major terrorist episode of the kind that we've lately seen in the United Kingdom, that all the capabilities that the country has that may be useful to deal with that terrorist event are at the disposal of the operational commander," Brandis said.
"At the moment the Defence Act provides quite a complicated series of steps to be undertaken before the defence power is called out in aid of civilian authorities and we're looking to see whether those powers can be streamlined so as to make the military more immediately able to be employed where it's important to do so," Brandis said.
The news comes after it was announced that Britain's military would be deployed at "at-risk" areas in an effort to deter future terror attacks like the one in Manchester, and Brandis was also able to confirm that no Australia were among the deceased or injured as a result of the bombing, which killed 22 people and injured dozens more.
