Editor reflects on encounters with Sir Peter Cosgrove
FILE PHOTO (December(?) 1999): Major General Peter Cosgrove is whisked ashore from HMAS Melbourne in Dili Harbour after a
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Editor’s Blog
CONTACT Editor Brian Hartigan muses on life, the universe and everything to do with CONTACT
My personal anguish over DVA-funded mental health treatment
I have mental-health issues. I don’t believe I have PTSD – and I’m definitely not suicidal. My issues are minor
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CONTACT’s YouTube Channel hits new milestone
Did you even know that CONTACT has a YouTube Channel? There’s nearly 350 military news videos to watch, 39 ‘personal
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The best fan-mail ever
I get a fair bit of ‘fan mail’ as editor of CONTACT – I love receiving it – and most
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Heart surgery brings CONTACT’s future into focus
There’s been a fair bit of military news over the past two weeks – especially in the final days before
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Interviewed by SBS
I was interviewed in February by an SBS News reporter in the CONTACT office. We discussed my history, coming home
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You ‘must’ register with DVA to get Veteran Lapel Pin
CONTACT received numerous questions from our audience after publishing this story on the New Veterans Covenant and Lapel Pin. Sanitised
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GoPro Hero 7 side-by-side shootout with Hero 5
This is my side-by-side video-shooting comparison between the new GoPro Hero 7 and my two-year-old Hero 5 (I never bought
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Audience questions re new cards/pins not answered by DVA
On 23 January, CONTACT published a story – Veterans’ Covenant and card coming soon – which gained a lot of
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Plan update + petting stingrays
What do you do around lunch time when you’re a professional pro-crastinator? Go find some stingrays to pat, of course.
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Quick trip to Canberra to meet Deputy Chief of Army
I made a quick trip to Canberra to meet Australia’s new Deputy Chief of Army Major General Tony Rawlins and
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How gender bias in recruiting can hurt an individual (male)
A very sad and frustrating case of apparent gender discrimination in Defence Force Recruiting has been brought to my attention.
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Do we have a right to know when a soldiers dies on the job?
Not long ago, the Department of Defence used to proactively inform the Australia public when a serious accident occurred on Defence
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2018 – What a year for CONTACT!
2018 was a huge year for CONTACT, full of ups and downs – but mostly ups. There was some amazing
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Official announcement – CONTACT will not be printed next year
. I have bad news and good news… The bad news is, I have already decided – no, actually, the audience
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Australian Warrior Expo – good enough to do it all again – soon
The first Australian Warrior Expo came and went in October – now we’re looking forward to the second instalment –
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Millions of $-worth of new clothing in $9 auction could have gone to Cadets
Hundreds-of-thousands of items of military clothing went under the virtual hammer in what seemed to be a wasteful Army warehouse
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CONTACT tops 3million page views
Sometime late last month when I wasn’t looking, the CONTACT web site topped 3,000,000 page views for the year to
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CONTACT’s Invictus Games coverage – 4 November
Invictus Games 2018 in Sydney is in full swing and I’m in Sydney, photographing as much Aussie-team action as possible. When
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Those ‘free Land Rovers’ will cost RSLs $6180 + GST
Here’s another update on the 21 September story we ran under the headline “200 free Land Rovers for RSLs” –
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