VETERANS HEALTH WEEK WOMENS EVENT
Get Moving – Physical Activity for Women Veterans This year for Veterans’ Health Week, Women Veterans United are hosting a
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Author: Anna Maria Lang
MONITOR MADNESS
The military has long had mascots, eagles, bulls and sheep, But when parades are over, someone has to sweep, The droppings…
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Acrostic – 9th Battalion
November, many years ago, In youthful number, innocent; National Service trained then sent Them off – to Vietnam they went.
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Laundry build at CONTACT HQ – Part 3
Finally – c’est fini. It took me 14 days – only working a few hours a day because of back ache – but I finally got the laundry done.
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Life After Service – Tony Park
Tony Park is a fiction and non-fiction international bestselling author with first novel published in 2004 – and a 34-year Army Reservist.
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There are no winners
No matter age or season, the God of War is never far away One small chink in a tribe’s armour,
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THE OLD TEA CHEST
It’s just a battered tea chest, with its’ secrets long secured Within its tired and weathered frame, their future was
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Bayonet drill for recruits
Oh, how old soldiers remember past days with bayonet drill The shrieking orders; “on guard, thrust, parry, feint” “Go for
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Book Review – Semut by Christine Helliwell
One of the ongoing ironies of war is that it has been and remains a catalyst for great literature. Semut
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Darren Chester sacked from Vet Affairs/Defence Personnel
Darren Chester has been sacked as Minister for Veterans’ Affairs and Minister for Defence Personnel in Barnaby Joyces’ reshuffle.
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Landing armour on a beach
Dear editorial staff CONTACT, as an ex armoured corps Ares soldier, it is always good to see what our successors are up to with training.
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Laundry build at CONTACT HQ – Part 2
Progress on the laundry remodel at CONTACT HQ (i.e. our house) was going well. That is until karma – and
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Australia agrees to arm PNG patrol boats
ADF has agreed to arm PNG’s four new Guardian-class patrol boats delivered through the Pacific Maritime Security Program.
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No Tears Dad
He doesn’t show his tears As he brings the kids around The terminal loudspeakers yell All passengers boarding now.
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Laundry day at CONTACT HQ – Part 1
After months – nay, more than a year – of working to improve my workshop, along comes a ‘proper project’ – a laundry makeover at CONTACT HQ.
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Our leaders of tomorrow
You, precious youth, are our nation’s future Look back beyond yesterday to unfold true history
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Breaker Morant – live presentation
Noted expert and advocate for justice in the ‘Breaker Morant case’ James Unkles will give a presentation on his work in Sydney next month.
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Mark Donaldson VC – Life on the Line
Alex Lloyd interviews Corporal Mark Donaldson VC – the first Australian Victoria Cross recipient since Vietnam.
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