A journey of remembrance and learning in Borneo
Recipients of the Jonathan Church Good Soldiering Award (JCGSA) have retraced the route of the single worst atrocity inflicted on
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Damage to the RAAC: How Much More Can we Possibly Suffer?
The damage so far: 1 Armd Regt stripped of its tanks and made a non-combatant, losing all crew skills and
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The Guy With the Microphone is Always the Winner
The recent Chief of Army’s symposium introduced a new catchphrase: ‘command accountability’. A bit of research brings up ADF Philosophical
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Demise of 1st Armoured Regiment – Winners and Losers.
The recent (2025) Chief of Army Symposium highlighted some of the failings in the Defence space that we’ve been saddled
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Last Post reading a personal one for signaller
Blaring bugle sounds and reading stories of Australia’s fallen is nothing new for Signaller Ashlee Chivers. CAPTION: Signaller Ashlee Chivers with
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2nd Health Brigade keeps soldiers in the fight
At first glance, the Australian Army’s Warfighter exercise series is just that, an opportunity to practise high-end combat operations within
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Last living link to tragedy of HMAS Canberra I
On a still and cloudy afternoon, Leading Stoker Des Jones was laid to rest, carried to his gravesite on the
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Sixty years of RAAF, love and life
As Pamela ‘Margaret’ Wilkinson walks the halls of RAAF Base Townsville’s Building 51, her memories of working from the site
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When Something Isn’t Right: What do You do?
The Chief of Army can’t explain why 1st Armoured Regiment had to be stripped of its tanks and made a
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If There’s no Trust, What’s Left?
Trust: the result of a working environment in which human values are paramount: the dignity of the individual is respected;
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Anonymous comments and their authors
What motivates a person to offer a comment on a topic under a false name, or with no name at
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