Australian Civil-Military Centre

The ACMC was originally established by the National Security Committee of Cabinet as the ‘Australian Civil-Military Centre of Excellence’, opening in November 2008. The title soon proved a bit of a mouthful so it was shortened to ‘Australian Civil-Military Centre’ in early 2012. The ACMC received strong endorsement from the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade in its 2008 Report of the Inquiry into Australia’s Involvement in Peace Operations. But from its very inception it was clear that the range of complex operations involving Australian agencies was too broad to restrict the ACMC’s activities to peace operations or disaster response. Wherever Australian military, police and civilian officials are sent on operations they will need to coordinate their efforts with other government authorities; international organizations; non-government organizations; civil-society groups and the private sector. The speed of events, the scale of humanitarian effect and the 24/7 immediacy of every sort of media, means that all personnel working in a mission or an operation need to be fully prepared to work with novel and unanticipated partners at little or no notice. https://www.acmc.gov.au/news/10-years-of-acmc