Australia and the international structures of the rules-based order

![CDATA[The international structures of the rules-based order are underpinned and forged essentially through agreements reached between states. These agreements have mostly been multilateral, although some have been plurilateral, trilateral and bilateral. The structures have, on the whole, been created as a result of negotiations from the end of the Second World War. As Allan Gyngell mentions in Fear of Abandonment,1 that was the starting point for the new international order, with the negotiation of the UN Charter and the establishment of the United Nations. Australia was “present at the creation”.2 Allan Gyngell mentioned that H.V. Evatt, as Attorney-General and Minister for External Affairs at the time, played a very significant role in the negotiation of the UN Charter. So too did Sir Kenneth Bailey, a distinguished lawyer, who as a member of the Australian delegation contributed to the drafting of both the Charter and the Statute of the International Court of Justice.]]