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How to get the Royal Australian Armoured Corps Back on track!

21/09/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 94 Views 0 Comments

Is there an answer?  If so, what is it?   Let’s face it … the Chief of Army is the

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If you send them and you bend them, you mend them!

21/09/202621/09/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 72 Views 0 Comments

Dear Editor, Labor’s abandoned $5000 veterans’ allied-health cap exposed a bigger problem. Veterans’ Affairs needs to rediscover the first principle

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The importance of manoeuvre

20/09/202620/09/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 166 Views 0 Comments

Manoeuvre warfare has been the touchstone of doing battle since the trenches of the First World War.  Has its importance

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“We need more tanks” – Ukrainian field commanders

18/09/202618/09/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 266 Views 0 Comments

“We need more tanks to provide close, direct, and overwhelming fire support” … feedback from Ukrainian field commanders “Ukraine has

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Success has many fathers – victory belongs to the veteran community

18/09/202618/09/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 172 Views 0 Comments

Dear Editor, The rush to claim credit for defeating the government’s $5000 veterans allied-health threshold misses why the campaign succeeded.

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Veterans made themselves impossible to ignore – the government buckled

18/09/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 174 Views 0 Comments

Dear Editor, The government has scrapped its proposed $5000 veterans allied-health threshold after four months of sustained pressure from veterans,

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Labor scrapped the cap. Now explain the savings

17/09/202617/09/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 164 Views 0 Comments

Dear Editor, Labor has scrapped its proposed $5000-veterans-allied-health threshold after months of opposition from veterans, families and advocates. Matt Keogh

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Keogh’s House Privilege shield puts McAllister in Senate pickle

16/09/202616/09/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 244 Views 0 Comments

Dear Editor, Veterans’ Affairs Minister Matt Keogh has refused to release DVA Question Time briefs about Labor’s $5000 allied-health policy,

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Labor softened $5000 veterans’ health cap. Now explain $748million saving

15/09/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 241 Views 0 Comments

Dear Editor, Labor has softened its $5000 veterans allied-health policy. High-needs veterans are now exempt and clinically necessary treatment can

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Top of mind matters for the RAAC (at this time)

14/09/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 315 Views 0 Comments

Can things get any worse?  Will there be some good news soon?  It’s been said that one makes one’s own

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DVA failing everyone who touches it

14/09/202614/09/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 277 Views 0 Comments

Dear Editor, DVA’s problems are not just about veterans struggling with the system. Staff describe burnout and relentless process change.

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Labor can sack Keogh without sacking Keogh

12/09/202612/09/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 255 Views 0 Comments

Dear Editor, Veterans Minister Matt Keogh should be sacked. But veterans need to understand what ‘sacked’ may look like inside

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Dream World: How to address the wrongs done to the RAAC

11/09/202611/09/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 212 Views 0 Comments

For attention: RAAC Head of Corps; RAAC Representative Honorary Colonel; and, Honorary Colonel 1st Armoured Regiment.cc: Chief of Army Gentlemen,

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Thoughts on what the future holds for the Royal Australian Armoured Corps (RAAC)

07/09/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 294 Views 0 Comments

How did the RAAC become the senior Corps in the Army?  Furthermore, is this status deserved?   It’s amazing what

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Letter to Lieutenant General Coyle in her previous capacity 

04/09/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 407 Views 0 Comments

Lieutenant General Susan Coyle, AM, CSC, DSMChief of Joint Capabilities, Russell Offices, CANBERRA, ACT, 2600. Dear Lieutenant General Coyle, Please accept

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Is Minister Keogh backpedaling on ‘the cap’?

02/09/202602/09/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 706 Views 0 Comments Allied health cap

It seems Minister for Veteran’s Affairs Matt Keogh did a backpedal on the allied health-care cap announced in this year’s

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Loyalty, Duty, Integrity, Honour and Courage

31/08/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 410 Views 0 Comments

Deals have been done and now the mess that’s been left behind … has to be cleaned up! When the

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Winning the next war – how do we do it?

28/08/202628/08/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 366 Views 0 Comments

“When you’re static, your intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance drones find the enemy really easily. And if you can find the

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Open Letter to Minister Keogh

25/08/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 645 Views 0 Comments

Joint position of 10 veteran service organisations on the proposed $5000 Annual Monetary Limit on allied health services Dear Minister

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Australian Army personnel from the 1st Armoured Regiment trial advanced manufacturing during Exercise Black Prince 3, operating from a heavy stores module converted to a deployable advanced manufacturing shelter, at Cultana Training Area, South Australia. Photo by Michael Guo.
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1st Armoured Regiment’s heritage – why it’s important it not be forgotten

24/08/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 284 Views 0 Comments

A unit’s heritage is that which creates the esprit-de-corps on which morale is based.  It is this, in turn, which

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