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Letters to the Editor 

What’s wrong with tanks and cavalry being part of the same unit?

23/06/202623/06/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 61 Views 0 Comments

The provision of close fire support by tanks, is a completely different undertaking to that of intelligence gathering by reconnaissance

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Albanese Labor Simplified DVA Law, Not Yet Veterans’ Lives

22/06/202622/06/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 161 Views 0 Comments

Dear Editor, Albanese Labor’s veterans reform now has a date, a booklet and a ministerial storyline. From 1 July 2026,

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An Australian M1A2 Abrams SEP v3 fires sabot rounds during a live-fire to confirm the aiming system of the tank and to qualify crews on the new systems at the Puckapunyal Military Area, Victoria, November 2024. Photo by Corporal Michael Currie.
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The tragedy that’s befallen the Royal Australian Armoured Corps (RAAC)

21/06/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 257 Views 0 Comments

If a Shakespearean tragedy had cast the RAAC as MacBeth, it couldn’t have been more appropriate.  The RAAC has recently

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DVA counted the savings before it built the safeguard

21/06/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 371 Views 0 Comments

Dear Editor, This week Veterans Minister Matt Keogh was spinning veteran wellbeing to a Labor-friendly McKell Institute audience, with a

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Air Vice-Marshal John Haly gives an address during the Bomber Command ceremony held at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. Story by Flying Officer Alexandra DeValentin. Photos by Sergeant David Said.
History Lest We Forget News Royal Australian Air Force 

Ceremony honours Bomber Command service

19/06/2026 Posted by Mike Hughes 324 Views 0 Comments AWM, Bomber Command, WWII

The 10,000 Royal Australian Air Force aircrew, ground staff and members of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force who served in

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Tanks on the Rebound: New Hope for 1st Armoured Regiment?

17/06/202617/06/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 319 Views 0 Comments

Lieutenant General Susan Coyle AM, CSC, DSM will soon be Chief of Army … will she resurrect 1 Armd Regt? The

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The loss of 1st Armoured Regiment: What’s it mean to the RAAC?

15/06/202615/06/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 349 Views 0 Comments

The role of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps is to “locate, identify, capture, and destroy the enemy using fire, manoeuvre,

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AUKUS sells sovereignty through foreign capacity

15/06/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 350 Views 0 Comments

Dear Editor, AUKUS is being sold as sovereign capability, but sovereignty is not created by a slogan. Collins was difficult,

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AUKUS just met Britain’s budget reality

13/06/202614/06/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 377 Views 0 Comments

Dear Editor, John Healey’s resignation as UK Defence Secretary should give Australians pause. AUKUS is often discussed in Canberra as

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An M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank fires on Exercise Diamond Run 2017. Photo by Captain Anna-Lise Brink.
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The future of tanks: Have they been made redundant by drones?

11/06/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 338 Views 2 Comments

“Ukraine and Russia deploy drones for every tactical purpose imaginable: intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, artillery spotting, electronic warfare targeting, psychological operations, logistics

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An Australian Army Abrams M1A2 SEPv3 main battle tank during a live-fire serial as part of a qualification course for Royal Australian Armoured Corps soldiers at Puckapunyal Military Area, Victoria. Photo by Corporal Jacob Joseph.
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1st Armoured Regiment: Will it ever be a tank regiment again?

09/06/202609/06/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 379 Views 3 Comments

Will Lieutenant General Susan Coyle, the first woman to be Chief of Army, be the saviour of the Royal Australian Armoured

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Medical personnel from the 2nd Health Battalion use a deployable CT scanner at a Role 2 Enhanced treatment facility on Exercise Viper Walk at Gallipoli Barracks, Enoggera. Story by Captain Chris Wade. Photo by Private Alli Craig.
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CT scanner a game changer for medics in the field

05/06/202605/06/2026 Posted by Mike Hughes 619 Views 0 Comments 2nd Health Battalion, Exercise Viper Walk, Gallipoli Barracks

It’s widely regarded as one of the most important medical innovations of the past 50 years, earning its inventor –

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Special Operations Task Group (SOTG) members enter a training compound at Multi National Base Tarin Kowt (MNBTK). Photo by Corporal Chris Moore.
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AWM will henceforth credit ADF photographers

05/06/202605/06/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 367 Views 0 Comments Australian War Memorial, AWM

G’Day Brian, Love the work you do at CONTACT Magazine, keeping the stories of our serving personnel authentic.    We’ve had

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Commanding Officer 100 Squadron Wing Commander Richard Brougham, left, and 100 Squadron Warrant Officer Andrew Doyle, right, sit with Ted McConchie to watch the Anzac Day commemorations together. Story by Flying Officer Rose Gigliotti.
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Honouring past and present generations

04/06/2026 Posted by Mike Hughes 547 Views 0 Comments ANZAC Day, No. 100 Squadron, RAAF Point Cook

A 102-year-old Second World War veteran has reconnected with the Air Force squadron he served with more than 80 years

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Australian Army M1A1 Abrams tank and Australian Army personnel from the Amphibious Force and Indonesian National Armed Forces marines move inland from Banongan Beach, East Java, during Exercise Keris Woomera 2024. Photo by Andrew Green.
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Close fire support for infantry: A thing of the past?

04/06/202604/06/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 278 Views 0 Comments

“Our attack was timed to start at 12.30am on 23 July 1916.  Three shrill blasts on a whistle, was the

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Soldiers from 8th/9th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, watch on as an M1A1 Abrams main battle tank fires in support during Exercise Diamond Run 2017. Photo by Captain Anna-Lise Brink.
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Does armour have limited value on modern battlefields?

03/06/202603/06/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 261 Views 2 Comments

Dear Editor, Many eminent writers have expressed their individual and collective concerns about Army decisions concerning significant change to Armoured

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2026 Veterans’ Affairs Budget deserves much closer scrutiny than it’s getting

27/05/202627/05/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 291 Views 0 Comments

After the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide, veterans were promised structural reform. Instead, the Budget now introduces a

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An Australian Army M1A1 Abrams tank fires during Exercise Jericho Dawn 2016. Photo by Sergeant Pete Gammie
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Why did 1st Armoured Regiment have to be stripped of its tanks?

27/05/202627/05/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 296 Views 0 Comments

Why was 1 Armd Regt nominated to become the Army’s experimentation unit, instead of any other unit?   Why not,

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ADF personnel form a catafalque party for an Anzac Day dawn service in Darwin City. Story by Captain Nicholas Marquis. Photo by Corporal Gregory Scott.
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Large crowds gather for Anzac Day in Top End

08/05/202608/05/2026 Posted by Mike Hughes 833 Views 0 Comments 1st Brigade, ANZAC Day

As flags at half-mast gently moved with the cool breeze in the Top End, thousands of Territorians commemorated Anzac Day

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Trust: Is this Army’s weakness?

08/05/202608/05/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 242 Views 0 Comments

Trust … the result of a working environment in which human values are paramount: the dignity of the individual is

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