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Captain Heston Russell in Afghanistan.
Letters to the Editor 

ABC doesn’t appeal Heston Russell defamation – and doesn’t apologise

27/11/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 6240 Views 5 Comments

On Wednesday last week, the appeals process for my judgement against the ABC closed. With this, the ABC has, by

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Captain Heston Russell in Afghanistan.
News Veterans 

Heston Russell wins defamation case against ABC

16/10/202325/10/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4115 Views 10 Comments x

UPDATED 24 October 2023: The ABC was today ordered to pay Heston Russell’s court costs, the amount of which was

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Australian Army News 

Heston Russell speaks out about war-crime-arrestee’s identity

21/03/202326/03/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 7644 Views 1 Comment SAS, War crimes

Former commando major Heston Russell has come to the defence of the former soldier arrested yesterday – attacking media outlets

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Life on the Line podcast with former 2 Commando officer Heston Russell
Life on the Line Podcast 

Heston Russell – ex commando officer and ‘Voice of a Veteran’

08/03/202126/03/2021 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4012 Views 0 Comments

Life on the Line’s Alex Lloyd interviews 2nd Commando Regiment veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq, Heston Russell.

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ADF News Veterans 

Petition calls for protected identity status to be enduring

22/04/202322/04/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4675 Views 0 Comments Protected Identity Status

Veteran Support Force boss Heston Russell has called on veterans and the wider community to sign a petition calling for

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Thomas Kaye interviews Vietnam veteran Tony Dell.
Life on the Line Podcast 

Tony Dell – Life on the Line

22/01/202322/01/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2064 Views 0 Comments Cricketer Tony Dell, Life on the Line Podcast

Thomas Kaye interviews Vietnam veteran and Australian Test cricketer Tony Dell. The national serviceman is an army veteran of the

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The Australian National Flag at full mast alongside the Aboriginal Flag and the Torres Strait Islander Flag at Darwin's Larrakeyah Barracks. Photo by Leading Seaman James Whittle.
Australian News Veterans 

Greens leader insults National Flag at press conference

21/06/202221/06/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2234 Views 0 Comments

An Australian Greens Party official removed the Australian National Flag from a rostrum – leaving the Aboriginal and Torres Straight

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Members of Australia's Special Operations Task Group (SOTG) prepare to fly into Oruzgan's Baluchi Valley and Chora regions in support of an MTF1 mission, in 2010. Photo by Lieutenant Aaron Oldaker.
Australian Army Middle East News Operations Veterans 

Defence Minister overturns Meritorious Unit Citation revocation

19/04/2021 Posted by Brian Hartigan 9281 Views 0 Comments

Minister for Defence has overruled the CDF’s threat to revoke Meritorious Unit Citations for SOTG in Afghanistan.

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OUR VETERANS, THEIR STORIES

Life on the Line is a podcast that talks to Australian military veterans and records their stories in their own

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Australian Australian Army Thought provoking Veterans 

OPINION: PM complicit in attack on the ‘meritorious many’

08/12/202012/12/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 8085 Views 10 Comments IGADF Afghanistan Inquiry

I am not an alarmist by nature; but I am a proud Australian veteran with 16 years of service including

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Former commandos Heston Russell and Scott Evenett prepare to lay a wreath at the Australian War Memorial. Screen grab from supplied video.
Australian Australian Army News Veterans Videos 

Former SF major attacks CDF over unit citations

27/11/202029/11/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 8354 Views 18 Comments

A retired commando hit out at his former boss, CDF General Campbell, today for his “most disgusting demonstration of senior leadership”.

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