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Policy to enable dual-serving couples leave sharing arrangements is now in place. Photo by Leading Seaman Tara Morrison.

Dual-serving couples can now share leave

05/07/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 1648 Views 0 Comments

Dual-serving couples can now share their leave as part of the latest change under the ADF Leave Framework. CAPTION: Policy to

Students of the University of New South Wales Master of Explosive Ordnance degree observe an energetic substance demonstration at Majura Training Area, Canberra. Story and photos by Sergeant Matthew Bickerton.

Course goes off with a bang

05/07/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 1387 Views 0 Comments Army School of Ordnance

A higher education into the science of things that go bang is now available in Australia to nominated ADF personnel,

HMAS Sydney arrives in Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii in preparation for Rim of the Pacific 2024. Photo by Leading Seaman Daniel Goodman.

ADF News USA

Australia slashes participation at RIMPAC

28/06/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2891 Views 0 Comments RIMPAC

Approximately 320 Australian Defence Force personnel have joined 28 international partners to undertake the world’s largest international maritime exercise. CAPTION:

International Combat Aviation Safety Summit 2024 attendees. Story by Captain Simone-Maree Spano. Photo by Sergeant Carly Box.

ADF News

Aviation safety taken to new heights

12/06/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 1136 Views 0 Comments International Combat Aviation Safety Summit (CASS)

Born from a desire to enhance aviation safety, international partners gathered for the inaugural International Combat Aviation Safety Summit (ICASS)

ADF MRF-D News

Major upgrades at Nackeroo complete

06/06/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1575 Views 0 Comments

Australia and the United States will now have greater training opportunities in northern Australia after the completion of upgrades to

A Joint Explosive Ordnance Support - West member watches the blast of an explosive ordnance disposal task on farmland at Two Rocks, Western Australia. Photo by Petty Officer Craig Walton.

ADF News

UXOs destroyed in WA

05/06/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1376 Views 0 Comments

A recent joint operation between the ADF and emergency services led to six unexploded WWII-era munitions being destroyed on a

Australian Defence Force trainee medics from the Australian Defence Force medic course march onto the parade ground at the Army School of Health graduation at Latchford Barracks in Bandiana, Victoria. Photo by Sergeant Tristan Kennedy.

ADF News

ADF now recruiting non-citizens

04/06/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2984 Views 3 Comments

New Zealanders who call Australia home will soon be able to apply to join the Royal Australian Navy, Australian Army

Australian and partner military personnel work on clearing a site to be used to dispose of WWII remnants during Operation Render Safe in Nauru. Photo by Sergeant Craig Barrett.

ADF News Pacific

Operation Render Safe hits Nauru

03/06/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1878 Views 0 Comments Operation Render Safe

Australian Army personnel from the 6th Engineer Support Regiment and 20th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Squadron, along with allied partners, have

Lieutenant Donna Nabure, from the Australian Defence Force Malaria and Infectious Diseases Institute team, talks with a Papua New Guinea Defence Force member and his child during a health survey. Photo by Corporal Samuel Miller.

ADF News Pacific

Scientific team surveys health in PNG

25/05/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1681 Views 0 Comments Papua New Guinea, Papua New Guinea Defence Force, PNG, PNGDF

Bringing science to the heart of Papua New Guinea, the ADF Malaria and Infectious Diseases Institute spent several weeks conducting

Royal Australian Navy EC-135 Aircraft from 723 Squadron conduct a fly past during the 723 Squadron Graduation Ceremony held at HMAS Albatross in Nowra. Story by Sub Lieutenant Jess Gould. Photo by Leading Seaman Ryan Tascas .

ADF News

ADF helicopter-pilot training increased 50%

23/05/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2060 Views 0 Comments

After substantially increasing flying hours over the past two-and-a-half years, 723 Squadron has increased its graduate output by 50 per

The Joint Australian Training Team-Philippines (JATT-P) Mobile Training Team (MTT), supported by the ADF Warfare Training Centre, deliver two Joint Warfighting Planning Foundations Courses to the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) for the first time.

ADF Asia News

Inaugural warfighting courses delivered in Philippines by mobile training team

21/05/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1651 Views 0 Comments

Two Joint Warfighting Planning Foundations courses have been delivered to the Armed Forces of the Philippines for the first time.

Chief Defence Scientist Tanya Monro, left, Minister-Counsellor Defence Science and Technology – Washington Darren Sutton, and US Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Heidi Shyu at the POST Conference in Hawaii. Story by Emma Thompson.

ADF News Science & Technology

Collaborating on the future of Defence

10/05/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 1419 Views 0 Comments Defence Science and Technology Group

Chief Defence Scientist Tanya Monro has led a delegation to the Pacific Operational Science and Technology (POST) Conference in Hawaii,

Soldiers from the Australian Army's 176 Air Dispatch Squadron work with Air Terminal Company, 3 Singapore Armed Forces Transport Battalion, during a Republic of Singapore Air Force C-130 training sortie. Photo by Aircraftwoman Maddison Scott.

ADF Asia News

Singapore Hercules training at RAAF Base Richmond

07/05/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1704 Views 0 Comments Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF)

The Australian Defence Force is supporting the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) as it conducts air mobility training from

A traditional ceremonial guardian doll and handwritten letter from the Ukrainian community in Australia sits on the desk of a Ukrainian soldier attending an Australian Army-led leadership course in England. Story by Lieutenant Carolyn Martin. Photos by Corporal Nicole Dorrett.

ADF News UK

Letters from Australia lift Ukrainian spirits

17/04/202423/04/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 1495 Views 0 Comments Armed Forces of Ukraine, Chaplains, Operation Kudu

The room was quiet and the mood was subdued as an Australian Army chaplain stood before a classroom of Armed

Vice Admiral David Johnston and Air Marshal Robert Chipman will become Australia's new Chief of Defence Force and Vice Chief of Defence Force in July 2024.

ADF News

New senior appointments in Defence announced

09/04/202409/04/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3990 Views 3 Comments

The Australian government has recommend a number of senior command changes within the Australian Defence Force to the Governor-General. FILE

Head of the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator Professor Emily Hilder addresses the Quantum Australia 2024 Conference in Sydney. Story by Natalie Staples.

ADF ADF People Science & Technology

Making the tiniest things count in war

15/03/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 1731 Views 0 Comments Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA), AUKUS, Defence Strategic Review, Emerging and Disruptive Technologies (EDT)

Harnessing quantum behaviours to develop advanced technologies could enable Defence to provide the warfighter with an asymmetric advantage. CAPTION: Head of

Australian Army soldiers from the ADF Parachuting School's Red Berets parachute display team drop into Sydney's Australia Day festivities. Story by Major Dan Mazurek. Photo: by Corporal Sagi Biderman.

ADF News

Australia Day 2024 Military-list honours announced

26/01/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1997 Views 0 Comments

Australia Defence Force personnel have been recognised for devotion to duty during natural disasters, strategic innovation and professional mastery in