The Defence Ministers of Australia, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, UK and US issued a joint statement on counter-Daesh cooperation on Wednesday after a meeting held in Paris.
The communiqué said the Ministers had discussed opportunities to intensify and accelerate the campaign against Daesh, especially as the organisation was "on the back foot".
They stressed the need to maintain the "gathering momentum" of the campaign as it moved into the next phase "targeting Daesh's vulnerabilities".
Stating the military campaign was an essential but insufficient part of the effort to defeat and destroy Daesh, the Ministers said they were "committed to ensuring the coherence of [their] military actions with the comprehensive efforts to set the conditions for sustainable political stability in the region".
US Defence Secretary Ash Carter's proposal for the ministers of the counter-Daesh Coalition force to convene their first defence Ministerial in February was endorsed.
In a doorstop after the meeting, Minister Payne confirmed the long anticipated White Paper would be released during the first quarter. In response to a question about the Australian social media response to Daesh being slow she said that this was more of an international question rather than for Australia alone.
"It’s more than just a military campaign. It requires engagement in the modern battle platform, if you like, and that includes social media."
Minister Payne acknowledged PM Turnbull's recent comments on increasing the social media response to Daesh and said the UK in particular had taken a lead on the issue.
Minister Payne said the meeting was "seminal" as it was the first attended by a group of Defence Ministers representing the Coalition partners. She said the group was united in their resolve to grow the numbers participating in the Coalition.
"It needs many shoulders to the wheel and all of us who were here today will be reinforcing that with our colleagues more broadly," Minister Payne said.