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Cubic Australia employees, including ADF veterans, won Employer of the Year – Large 2022.
ADF News Veterans 

Prime Minister’s National Veterans’ Employment Awards 2022

25/11/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1449 Views 0 Comments Veterans’ Employment Awards

Australia’s top veteran and partner employers, employees and entrepreneurs were celebrated last night at the 2022 Prime Minister’s National Veterans’

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RAAF Flight Lieutenant Jayden Hasemann, left, and Leading Aircraftman Jack Atkins play basketball with students at Sokehs Roie Soledi Peidie Elementary School. Story by Flight Lieutenant Dee Irwin. Photo by Leading Aircraftman Sam Price.
ADF News Pacific Royal Australian Air Force 

Aviators join in the fun at Micronesian school

18/11/2022 Posted by Mike Hughes 2242 Views 0 Comments C-27J Spartan, Chaplains, Micronesia, Operation Solania

In between flying aerial maritime surveillance sorties, Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel deployed on Operation Solania 22-4 have engaged with local

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Self medicating. Photo by Brian Hartigan.
ADF News Veterans 

Latest official suicide-figures reported

16/11/202216/11/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2070 Views 3 Comments suicide

A report released today into the rate of suicide among current and former serving Australian Defence Force personnel reaffirms that

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Defence scientists Mr Alex Rohl, right, and Dr Susannah Whitney, second from left, feature on a panel at PAX Aus 2022. Story by Sophie Calabretto.
ADF Australian Army News Royal Australian Air Force Royal Australian Navy Science & Technology 

Cyber skills to strengthen Defence training

15/11/2022 Posted by Mike Hughes 1627 Views 0 Comments DST, DSTO

Defence scientists featured on an expert panel at Australia’s largest gaming convention in October, discussing the use of game techniques,

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Australian Government-donated Bushmaster protected mobility vehicles bound for Ukraine at RAAF Base Amberley, Queensland, in April 2022. Photo by Corporal Jesse Kane.
ADF Australian Army Europe News 

Aussie troops to train Ukraine forces

28/10/202206/11/2022 Posted by Mike Hughes 3043 Views 2 Comments Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicles, Operation Interflex, Ukraine

From January next year, Australia will join an international military operation to provide critical training for Ukrainian troops in response

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Group Captain (retd) Wayne Johnston, left, and Wing Commander Mark Pitt at the opening of the Pitt-Johnston Electronic Warfare Research Centre at the Joint Survivability Tactics Validation Unit. Story by Leading Aircraftwoman Jasna McFeeters. Photo by Sergeant Murray Staff.
ADF News 

Electromagnetic Warfare Research Centre opened in Adelaide

26/10/202230/10/2022 Posted by Mike Hughes 2282 Views 0 Comments DST, JCG

Defence’s Electromagnetic Warfare Program received a major boost last month with the official opening of the Pitt-Johnston Electromagnetic Warfare Research

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INTERFET veterans march through the streets of Dili during an official parade of remembrance in Timor-Leste. Photo by Corporal Tristan Kennedy.
ADF News Veterans 

Budget 2022 – government’s official statement re veterans and Defence personnel

25/10/202226/10/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1981 Views 0 Comments Budget 2022

The Australian Government is investing in a better future for Defence personnel, veterans and families, responding to important recommendations put

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HMAS Stuart leads HMA Ships Hobart and Canberra out of Sydney Harbour as seven Aussie warships depart head to sea. Photo by Able Seaman Benjamin Ricketts.
ADF News 

Budget 2022 – government’s official statement re Defence

25/10/202225/10/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1437 Views 0 Comments Budget 2022

THE HON RICHARD MARLES MP DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER MINISTER FOR DEFENCE THE HON PAT CONROY MP MINISTER FOR DEFENCE INDUSTRY

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North West Mobile Force soldier Private Corinthian Noketta from the Wallman Community in Turkey Creek radios information to command elements during a patrol activity on Operation Resolute on Groote Eylandt in the Gulf of Carpentaria. Photo by Gunner Shannon Joyce. 24 year-old Private Corinthian joined NORFORCE in 2001 and works as a signaller and coax man on water patrols. Private Corinthian is a Community Dole Project (CDP) participant at home, but wants to get training as a ranger to do more for his land. When Private Corinthian returns from patrol, the first thing he plans to do is roll out his 1980 Falcon Fairmont for a cruise around Katherine. Private Corinthian plays Australian Rules Football for Klarno.
ADF News 

$2billion communications upgrade for ADF

25/10/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2029 Views 0 Comments

The Australian government has announced a major boost to Defence’s strategic high-frequency communications capability to support regional and global operations.

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Australian Army recruits in training at 1st Training Battalion, Kapooka, NSW. 1RTB photo.
ADF News 

Defence changes horses in new recruitment race

24/10/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2177 Views 0 Comments Defence Force Recruiting

In the latest move to scale up the Australian Defence Force, the Australian government has selected Adecco Australia as Defence’s

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Australian Corporal Louis Carbery, an infantry soldier with 8/9RAR, discusses how his army clears hallways and intersections at Blackrock Training Camp, Fiji, during Exercise Cartwheel. Story and photo by US Army Sergeant Brian D. Jones, 343rd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment. 
ADF Australian News Pacific 

Australia and Fiji sign Status of Forces Agreement

20/10/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2643 Views 0 Comments Fiji, Status of Forces Agreement

Fiji’s Minister for Defence, National Security, and Policing and Minister for Agriculture, Rural and Maritime Development, and National Disaster Management

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ADF News Veterans 

Government seeking veteran input on DVA legislative change

17/10/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1718 Views 0 Comments Suicide Royal Commission

Consultation on reforming veterans’ legislation commenced today with the Department of Veterans’ Affairs seeking submissions from the community. The Australian

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Ghost Robotics Vision 60 Quadrupedal Uncrewed Ground Vehicles are displayed at the 2022 Land Forces expo. Story and photo by Warrant Officer Class Two Max Bree.
ADF News Sovereign industry 

Expo showcased dogs of war

14/10/202219/10/2022 Posted by Mike Hughes 2125 Views 0 Comments 7th Combat Service Support Battalion, Land Forces Conference, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Implementation & Coordination Office (RICO)

They’re nicknamed robot dogs, but the mechanical movements of Army’s quadrupeds walking around Land Forces don’t prompt warm feelings like

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Marissa Bond, chief technology officer, and Thomas Hastwell, chief commercial officer, at Lumination's offices in Adelaide.
ADF News Sovereign industry 

Company shines light on innovative training

07/10/2022 Posted by Mike Hughes 2143 Views 0 Comments Defence Innovation Hub

Lumination, an Adelaide-based company specialising in bringing classroom lessons to life using immersive technologies, is working with the Defence Innovation

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Lieutenant Mia Parsons, of the 1st Close Health Battalion, takes a COVID test sample from a member of the public at the Goulburn Valley Health COVID testing site in Shepparton, Victoria. Story by Major Fiona Bickerstaff. Photo by Private Dustin Anderson.
ADF News 

Operation COVID-19 Assist officially ends

07/10/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1943 Views 0 Comments COVID-19 Assist

Australian Defence Force’s contribution to the national response to COVID-19 officially concluded today, marking the official end of Operation COVID-19

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Royal Australian Navy submarine HMAS Waller sails in company with HMAS Warramunga during the inaugural Australian Submarine Command Course off Australia's east coast. Photo by Able Seaman Jarryd Capper.
ADF News Royal Australian Navy 

Two officers pass inaugural Australian Submarine Command Course

03/10/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2755 Views 0 Comments Australian Submarine Command Course

Australia has successfully launched a sovereign training program to produce its own next generation of submarine commanders, with two Royal

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An internal view of the Space Surveillance Telescope inside its dome at Harold E. Holt Satellite Sensor Site facility near Exmouth, Western Australia. Photo by Corporal David Cotton.
ADF Australian News USA 

Space Surveillance Telescope in Australia reaches IOC

01/10/202201/10/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2221 Views 0 Comments The Space Surveillance Telescope

The Australian Defence Force, in collaboration with the United States Space Force, have achieved Initial Operational Capability to provide enhanced

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SIG Sauer's MCX in .300 Blackout calibre [7.62×35mm] [a sub-sonic round] has been selected as the ADF's new personal rifle to replace the 5.56mm Steyr. Photo Sergeant Tristan Kennedy.
ADF News 

ADF brings more 7.62mm into service

01/10/202208/10/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 37811 Views 55 Comments Accuracy International AX-SR, Barrett M107A1, Benelli M3A1, SIG Sauer MCX, Sig Sauer P320

EDITOR’s NOTE: I have edited my headline and photo caption to correct my assumption that the SIG Sauer MCX would replace

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Head Maritime Systems Rear Admiral Wendy Malcolm speaks to graduates and guests at the graduation ceremony of the Defence Industry Pathways Program at the South Metropolitan TAFE, Western Australia. Story by Phillip Morton. Photo by Chief Petty Officer Yuri Ramsey.
ADF News Royal Australian Navy 

Graduates on the pathway to success

30/09/2022 Posted by Mike Hughes 1389 Views 0 Comments Defence Industry Pathways Program (DIPP)

Twenty-seven trainees from the Defence Industry Pathways Program’s first two intakes capped off a year of hard work with a

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ADF News Veterans 

Government responds to Suicide RC interim report

30/09/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1136 Views 0 Comments Suicide Royal Commission

The Albanese Government has responded to the 13 recommendations of the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide’s Interim Report.

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