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Singapore Army soldiers demonstrate urban assault techniques at the Shoalwater Bay training area, Queensland, during Exercise Trident in November 2014.
Australian miscellaneous News 

Backflip on compulsory land acquisitions

07/02/201707/02/2017 Posted by Brian Hartigan 5161 Views 0 Comments compulsory land acquisition, Shoalwater Bay, Singapore Military Training Agreement, Townsville Field Training Area

Minister for Defence Marise Payne today confirmed that Defence will only purchase land from willing sellers around Shoalwater Bay Training

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Singapore Army soldiers demonstrate urban assault techniques at Shoalwater Bay Training Area. File photo by Corporal David Cotton.
Australian miscellaneous News 

Minister confirms compulsory land acquisitions for Singapore training

23/01/201724/01/2017 Posted by Brian Hartigan 8539 Views 0 Comments compulsory land acquisition, Shoalwater Bay, Singapore Military Training Agreement, Townsville Field Training Area

On 13 October last year Defence Minister Marise Payne announced that she had signed a Memorandum of Understanding Concerning Military Training And

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Australian Army soldiers detonate an M18A1 Claymore anti-personnel weapon during a 7th Brigade combined-arms training activity in Shoalwater Bay. Photo by Leading Seaman Jayson Tufrey.
ADF Australian News 

Defence confirms no plan to expand training areas by force

29/11/2017 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3489 Views 0 Comments Shoalwater Bay, Singapore Armed Forces

Following consultation with local communities, businesses, representative groups and landholders, the Department of Defence today announced that Shoalwater Bay Training

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Sir Jeffrey Armiger's Bullshit Detector under heavy load.
CONTACT BLOG SPOT Sir Jeffrey Armiger 

Never has my BULLSHIT radar been so strained

23/02/201724/02/2017 Posted by Brian Hartigan 5753 Views 0 Comments Sir Jeffrey Armiger

Busy, busy busy the Australian Defence Force has been over recent weeks. Under attack from frustrated farmers, they had to rethink

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Singapore Army soldiers demonstrate urban assault techniques at the Shoalwater Bay training area. Photo by Corporal David Cotton.
Australian miscellaneous News 

186 farms in Defence’s sights – Minister’s request for expediency ignored

24/01/201724/01/2017 Posted by Brian Hartigan 5841 Views 1 Comment compulsory land acquisition, Shoalwater Bay, Singapore Military Training Agreement, Townsville Field Training Area

Yesterday, CONTACT published a piece about how ‘dozens’ of farmers with property adjoining Defence training areas near Rockhampton and Townsville

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Greenvale, Queensland (town boundary – not the boundary of the new training area).
ADF Asia Australian News 

ADF buys land for new training area

14/12/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 6937 Views 0 Comments ASMTI, Singapore Armed Forces, training areas

Defence is one step closer to establishing a new training area in north Queensland as part of the Australia-Singapore Military

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Australian soldier Lance Corporal Chris Gagliardi, 7RAR on exercise with Singapore Army soldiers in Shoalwater Bay Training Area. Photo by Corporal David Cotton.
ADF Asia Australian News 

$660 million Shoalwater Bay works contracted

25/09/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 5258 Views 0 Comments Shoalwater Bay Training Area

Laing O’Rourke has been chosen as the Managing Contractor for the Australian-Singapore Military Training Initiative (ASMTI) facilities project works at

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