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Invictus Games 2025 Team Australia competitor Dane Greenstreet. Story by Flying Officer Tina Langridge. Photo by Flight Sergeant Christopher Dickson.
ADF ADF People Health and Wellbeing Invictus Games 

Signing off on an Invictus high

24/01/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 966 Views 0 Comments Invictus Games

Rehabilitation centred on sport and exercise has been Dane Greenstreet’s focus since medically discharging from the Australian Army eight years

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Invictus Games 2025 Team Australia competitor Squadron Leader Bel Culley. Story by Invictus Games 2025 Team Australia competitor Squadron Leader Bel Culley. Photos: Flight Sergeant Christopher Dickson. Photo by Flight Sergeant Christopher Dickson.
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From storyteller to competitor

24/01/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 1253 Views 0 Comments Invictus Games

In 2018, Squadron Leader Belinda ‘Bel’ Culley had the privilege of working as a part of the public affairs team

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Invictus Games 2025 Team Australia competitor Corporal Jason Marsh. Story by Flying Officer Tina Langridge. Photo by Flight Sergeant Christopher Dickson.
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Ending career on Invictus Games high

24/01/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 752 Views 0 Comments Invictus Games

Corporal Jason Marsh is one of those people who performs at his best when he’s working towards a goal. CAPTION: Invictus

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Invictus Games 2025 Team Australia competitor Colin McCallum. Story. by Story by Flying Officer Tina Langridge. Photo by Flight Sergeant Christopher Dickson.
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Invictus competitor already a winner

24/01/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 825 Views 0 Comments Invictus Games

Given his stint as a Navy cadet, his passion for sailing and his father’s naval background, it was hardly surprising

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Invictus Games 2025 Team Australia competitor Leading Seaman Christopher Hill. Story by Fying Officer Tina Langridge. Photo by Flight Sergeant Christopher Dickson.
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Teamwork makes Chris’ dream work

24/01/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 720 Views 0 Comments Invictus Games

Leading Seaman Christopher Hill’s life is testament to the power of teamwork. CAPTION: Invictus Games 2025 Team Australia competitor Leading Seaman

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Invictus Games 2025 Team Australia competitor Petty Officer Jarryd Boyd. Story by Flying Officer Tina Langridge. Photos by Flight Sergeant Christopher Dickson.
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Proud Aussie eyes new goals

24/01/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 671 Views 0 Comments Invictus Games

As a physical training instructor with the Royal Australian Navy, Petty Officer Jarryd Boyd understands the importance of sport and

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Invictus Games 2025 Team Australia competitor Cindy Chawner. Photo by Flight Sergeant Christopher Dickson.
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Daredevil grandmother makes games debut

17/01/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 1508 Views 0 Comments Invictus Games

During snowboarding competitions, you’ll typically find Cindy Chawner at the bottom of a slope waiting for her youngest daughter, Mia,

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Invictus Games 2025 Team Australia competitors Callan McLean, right, and Jake Christie dive into the pool during a training camp at the Australian Institute of Sport, Canberra. Photo by Flight Sergeant Christopher Dickson.
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Invictus reignites sailor’s passion

14/01/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 1228 Views 0 Comments Invictus Games

Bilateral cartilage issues in both knees and multiple musculoskeletal injuries prematurely ended Callan McLean’s naval career and recreational sporting pursuits

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Invictus Games 2025 Team Australia competitor Alexander Gair. Photo by Flight Sergeant Christopher Dickson.
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Inspiring others at Invictus Games

14/01/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 1246 Views 0 Comments Invictus Games

Alexander Gair is mighty proud of his 20-year career with the Australian Army. CAPTION: Invictus Games 2025 Team Australia competitor Alexander

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An Aussie veteran of Task Group Taji
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Operation Okra in Iraq officially ends

29/12/202429/12/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 6300 Views 0 Comments Iraq, Operation Okra

Operation Okra, the Australian Defence Force’s contribution to the international coalition against Daesh in Iraq and Syria, has concluded with

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A Ventia firetruck conducts a firefighting demonstration at RAAF Base Pearce in Western Australia. Photo by Flying Officer Michael Thomas.
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ACCC sues over alleged price-fixing cartel for ADF base-services contracts

12/12/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2789 Views 2 Comments

ACCC has started civil cartel proceedings in the Federal Court against two companies and four senior executives for alleged price

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Deputy Mission Commander Pacific Partnership Wing Commander Scott Minchin holds a child during the mission in the Pacific. Story by Corporal Jacob Joseph.
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Friendly Aussie faces in the Pacific

06/11/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 1066 Views 0 Comments Pacific Partnership

The outgoing deputy commander of a US-led operation to provide humanitarian assistance across the Indo-Pacific said Australian servicemen and women

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Defence (or govt?) weasels out of $12billion satellite ordered last year

04/11/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1402 Views 0 Comments JP9102

On 3 April last year, Defence was proud to announce Lockheed Martin Australia as the preferred tenderer to deliver a

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Royal Australian Air Force Corporal Tegan Ross from Australia's Federation Guard with representatives from Commonwealth countries escort the Gold State Coach during the Procession following the Coronation of King Charles III. Photo by Sergeant Andrew Sleeman.
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King Charles promoted to top ADF ranks

19/10/202420/10/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 10947 Views 7 Comments King Charles III

His Majesty King Charles III has been appointed the Honorary Ranks of Admiral of the Fleet of the Royal Australian

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Australian soldiers with 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, conduct a medical evacuation of a local boy in the Oecusse Enclave, East Timor. Photo by Corporal Brian Hartigan.
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25 years since INTERFET deployment

20/09/202420/09/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 5746 Views 2 Comments East Timor, INTERFET, Timor-Leste

When the Timorese people took the courageous step of voting for independence in 1999 and asked the international community for

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An Australian Army medic chats with students during a visit to a boys' school in southern Afghanistan. Photo by Corporal Ricky Fuller.
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Safer without it? Should army medics wear the Red Cross?

18/09/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1599 Views 2 Comments Charles Sturt University

Charles Sturt University research into the wearing of the Red Cross brassard by members of the Australian military show they

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Defence Science and Technology Group scientist Dr Ben Sparkes, left, works with Australian-built quantum clocks at the University of Adelaide.
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Defence buys atomic clocks for $2.7million

13/09/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1557 Views 0 Comments QuantX Labs

The Australian government is acquiring quantum optical atomic clocks from Adelaide-based QuantX Labs to deliver position navigation and timing (PNT)

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Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Richard Marles. Photo by Jay Cronan, digitally altered by CONTACT.
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Defence Minister Marles’ updates on Brereton Report

12/09/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2014 Views 0 Comments

Statements by Minister for Defence Richard Marles… FILE PHOTO: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Richard Marles. Photo by

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ADF News Veterans 

Final Report from veteran-suicide Royal Commission handed down

09/09/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1529 Views 0 Comments Suicide Royal Commission

The Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide Final Report has been delivered to the government and tabled in Parliament

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A Joint Strike Missile (orange) loaded in an internal weapon's bay of a US Air Force F-35 Joint Strike Fighter during test and evaluation trials. Image supplied by Kongsberg to the ADF for distribution to media.
ADF News 

Joint Strike Missile acquisition expedited

05/09/202406/09/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2111 Views 0 Comments Kongsberg

The government is further accelerating Australia’s long-range strike capability through the acquisition of the Joint Strike Missile (JSM) beginning next

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