Australian forces were very active in UN peacekeeping through the 1990s . In 1993 , Foreign Minister Gareth Evans was active in the search for a settlement to ongoing troubles in Cambodia in the aftermath of the genocidal 1970s Pol Pot regime . Australia contributed the force commander and the operation 's communications component to the UN operation . In the ultimately unsuccessful Somalia intervention , a battalion-level Australian contingent was employed to aid in the delivery of humanitarian aid in the Baidoa area . In 1994 , Australia deployed medical staff to the UN force in Rwanda sent to deal with the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide . A UN Peacekeeping engagement in Bougainville began in 1997 , to aid in resolving the long-running conflict between the Papua New Guinea government Bougainville separatists
Rwandan genocide
Rwandan genocide
History of Australia since 1945