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Australian Army soldier Private Jack Barrie sorts donations at the Foodbank warehouse in Glendenning, NSW, as part of Defence's Operation COVID-19 Assist. Photo by Corporal Chris Beerens.

Health and Wellbeing Letters to the Editor

Virus made me a morning person

06/04/202006/04/2020 Colleen 430 Views 1 Comment COVID-19

How are you coping with this social isolation? I’m doing alright with reading, cooking, jigsaws, exercising and getting out for a walk on a regular basis.

Imagery scanned from Navy Historic Archive – HMAS Junee.

Personal stories

National Service in the 50s

05/04/202005/04/2020 Mel Austin 440 Views 0 Comments

FILE PHOTO: Image scanned from Navy Historic Archive – HMAS Junee. Congratulations on such a successful website Brian. I’m

Australian Army soldier Private Claude Allan from 2nd/17th Battalion, Royal New South Wales Regiment, guides returning passengers to their hotel rooms in Sydney, as part of the government’s COVID-19 response. Photo by Corporal Chris Beerens.

ADF Australian News Sir Jeffrey Armiger

Minister forgot to tell Defence about Op COVID-19 Assist

01/04/202001/04/2020 Brian Hartigan 1652 Views 3 Comments COVID-19

Defence’s COVID-19 daily update issued at 9am this morning makes no mention of Operation COVID-19 Assist announced by the minister some three hours earlier.

Major General John Frewen issues back-to-the-future plea to nice.

ADF Australian Editor's Blog News

Why did Defence re-issue plea to be nice to soldiers on COVID-19 isolation tasks?

31/03/2020 Brian Hartigan 2096 Views 1 Comment COVID-19

For some strange reason we can only guess at, Defence today re-issued the message from Commander COVID-19 task force – with

ADF Australian Editor's Blog News

Three weeks after first COVID-19 case – now 25

31/03/2020 Brian Hartigan 543 Views 0 Comments COVID-19

“Defence is currently managing 25 confirmed cases in the locations illustrated”, Defence updated today, on an update page dated both 30 March and 31 March.

Australian CONTACT BLOG SPOT Editor's Blog News Veterans Videos

Join me for a special ANZAC Day Dawn Service

30/03/202023/04/2020 Brian Hartigan 2550 Views 9 Comments COVID-19

Wounded Heroes has brought forward its major fundraiser – Ex Stone Pillow 2020 – to cope with a major call on its services in the face of the COVID-19.

CONTACT BLOG SPOT Editor's Blog News

CONTACT setting new audience records – so thank YOU!

30/03/202004/04/2020 Brian Hartigan 659 Views 0 Comments

Yesterday, 29 March 2020, was a record day for CONTACT when our web site clocked up 11,885 unique visitors and 42,576 page views in a single day.

ADF Australian Editor's Blog News

Defence’s COVID-19 crisis spreads, in more ways than case numbers

29/03/2020 Brian Hartigan 1490 Views 0 Comments COVID-19

“Defence is currently managing 22 confirmed cases in the locations illustrated above” – and staring down the barrel of a PR crisis.

Warrant Officer Class 2 Brett Donaldson, ‘A’ Field Battery, supervises a Danish soldier firing a Heckler and Koch grenade machine gun during a range practice at Forward Operating Base Budwan, Helmand Province Afghanistan. Photo by Corporal Raymond Vance.

CONTACT BLOG SPOT History Veterans

Doubt about Australian Army’s oldest unit birthdate

18/03/202022/03/2020 Brian Hartigan 2350 Views 4 Comments

Recent discussions have cast doubt on the birthdate of Australia’s oldest, continuously-serving full-time military unit – A Field Battery.

Australian and international participants at AASAM 2013. Photo by Sergeant John Waddell.

ADF Australian Australian Army News Sir Jeffrey Armiger

Has AASAM international component been cancelled?

12/03/202014/03/2020 Brian Hartigan 653 Views 0 Comments COVID-19

Defence today issued a press release talking up AASAM20 scheduled to start tomorrow at Greenbank in Brisbane – with no international component mentioned.

Composite SEEK/DFR recruitment ad for Administration Assistant (Female). Digitally altered by CONTACT.

ADF Australian News Sir Jeffrey Armiger

Defence under fire – again – for sexist recruitment ads

11/03/202011/03/2020 Brian Hartigan 3329 Views 4 Comments

Defence is under fire – again – for blatant sexism in recruitment advertising, nominating “Female Opportunity” as a precondition of application.

An image capture from the Australian War Memorial's grand expansion-plans video, showing an RAAF F/A-18A on prominent display.

CONTACT BLOG SPOT News Royal Australian Air Force Sir Jeffrey Armiger

Australian F/A-18 history/heritage – SOLD

06/03/202026/05/2020 Brian Hartigan 2349 Views 1 Comment

Maybe you just can’t trust a politician’s promise until you actually see an F/A-18 spiked atop a pole with said politician getting his/her photo taken.