Backflip on compulsory land acquisitions
Minister for Defence Marise Payne today confirmed that Defence will only purchase land from willing sellers around Shoalwater Bay Training
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Minister confirms compulsory land acquisitions for Singapore training
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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Defence confirms no plan to expand training areas by force
Following consultation with local communities, businesses, representative groups and landholders, the Department of Defence today announced that Shoalwater Bay Training
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Never has my BULLSHIT radar been so strained
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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186 farms in Defence’s sights – Minister’s request for expediency ignored
Yesterday, CONTACT published a piece about how ‘dozens’ of farmers with property adjoining Defence training areas near Rockhampton and Townsville
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ADF buys land for new training area
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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$660 million Shoalwater Bay works contracted
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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