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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Why deliberately crashing my drone was a fitting end to 2018
I deliberately crashed My Mavic Pro drone into a bush (softest, driest option at the time) to prevent it crashing into
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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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Chapter 59: Australia!
So there we were cruisin’ the high seas. The boys from GHQ put out a newsletter telling us the latest
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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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Chapter 58: ‘The Sydney’
‘The Sydney’ refers to HMAS Sydney, an Australian aircraft carrier which was used to ferry Australian troops and equipment to
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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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Armour in the Australian Army: Is There Something Wrong? Part 5
A couple of points from previous parts: (i) I understand that the amphibious battalion in Townsville is actually under the
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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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Armour in the Australian Army: Is There Something Wrong? Part 4
Does it not seem strange that the Australian Army’s most expensive equipment procurement project ever – $15billion worth – is
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Chapter 57: 3 and awakie!
I remember it well. You see we were due to come home from our 12 month tour of Vietnam on
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Armour in the Australian Army: Is There Something Wrong? Part 3
How does a mechanised infantry battalion work? Let’s start with a single IFV … three crew (driver, gunner and commander),
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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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Roulettes get new colour scheme for airplane they don’t even fly yet
How can you make a song and dance and host a PR pony show to announce a new paint scheme for
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Armour in the Australian Army : Is There Something Wrong? Part 2
For those interested in Army’s most expensive acquisition ever … LAND 400 Phase 3 ($15b) is intended to provide 450
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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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Armour in the Australian Army: Is there something wrong?
Part one in a new series of musings by Australian tank expert Bruce Cameron Let’s look at the situation
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CONTACT will cover Invictus Games after all
I reported earlier this month that CONTACT did not receive media accreditation to cover the Invictus Games in Sydney next
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CORRECTION: ‘Free Land Rovers’ are not free after all
On 21 September we ran a story under the headline “200 free Land Rovers for RSLs“. FILE PHOTO (November 2013): An
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