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NSW Senator and former Army Major General Jim Molan talks to an Australian Army pilot during a visit to Holsworthy Barracks, Sydney, 28 August 2020. Photo by Sergeant Sebastian Beurich.

VALE – Senator and former Major General Jim Molan

17/01/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1647 Views 1 Comment Jim Molan

Senator and former Army Major General Andrew James ‘Jim’ Molan, AO, DSC, died of cancer yesterday at age 72 FILE

HMAS Vampire, Australia's largest museum vessel, will be moved for maintenance in January 2023. Photo courtesy Australian National Maritime Museum.

Australian News Veterans

HMAS Vampire to ‘sail’ again on Wednesday – send us your photos

16/01/202322/01/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 9852 Views 13 Comments Australian National Maritime Museum, HMAS Vampire

Daring-class destroyer HMAS Vampire will be moved from the the Australian National Maritime Museum at Darling Harbour to Garden Island

ADF Australian News Veterans

‘Purple Heart’-type award for Australia – RECOMMENDED

13/01/202313/01/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 5958 Views 31 Comments

In January 2021, then Minister for Defence Personnel Darren Chester directed Defence Honours and Awards Appeals Tribunal to consider recognition

ADF People News Veterans

Aussie veteran/ADF team closing in on South Pole

13/01/202313/01/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1669 Views 0 Comments

A team of ADF veterans are within days of reaching the South Pole as part of The Spirit Lives Antarctic

Vietnam Veterans' Day held at the Vietnam Memorial in Canberra. Photo by Leading Seaman Nadav Harel.

Australian News Veterans

50 years since Australia proclaimed end to Vietnam War

11/01/202310/01/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1319 Views 0 Comments Vietnam Veterans’ Day

Today marks 50 years since the 1973 proclamation of the end of Australian involvement in the Vietnam War. Minister for

Thought provoking Veterans

Brothers

02/01/202302/01/2023 Barry Zworestine 1074 Views 0 Comments By Barry Zworestine

Brothers Side by side They sat on the bench One fresh from war The other, weary and aged from

Alison Frame (left) will take over as Secretary of the Department of Veterans' Affairs from incumbent Liz Cosson in January 2023.

Australian News Veterans

New boss to “clean up DVA’s shambles”

22/12/202222/12/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3635 Views 18 Comments Alison Frame, Department of Veterans' Affairs, DVA, Liz Cosson

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced the appointment of Alison Frame as the new Secretary of the Department of Veterans’

A teaser photo of a new statue of Lieutenant Colonel Vivian Bullwinkel that will be unveiled at the Australian War Memorial. Photo supplied.

News Veterans

First look at Vivian Bullwinkel sculpture for Australian War Memorial

16/12/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1093 Views 0 Comments Australian War Memorial, Vivian Bullwinkel

A new sculpture of nurse Lieutenant Colonel Vivian Bullwinkel will be the first sculpture of an individual nurse or woman

Australian News Veterans

New Veterans’ and Families’ Hub opens somewhere in Wodonga

06/12/202206/12/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 479 Views 2 Comments Veterans’ and Families’ Hub

The latest addition to the Veterans’ and Families’ Hubs network officially opened today somewhere in Wodonga, providing tailored services and

Australian News Veterans

New Veterans’ and Families’ Hub opens in Nowra

05/12/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 557 Views 0 Comments Veterans’ and Families’ Hub

New South Wales’ first Veterans’ and Families’ Hub officially opened today in Nowra. Minister for Veterans’ Affairs Matt Keogh met

ADF News Veterans

50th Anniversary of National Service ending

05/12/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1527 Views 8 Comments Nashos, National Service

Today we recognise more than 280,000 Australians who were called up to serve their country in National Service schemes between

Governor of Western Australia Kim Beazley inspects the troops at the Pilbara Regiment Colours Parade. Photo by Sergeant Gary Dixon.

News Veterans

Beazley elected Chair of Australian War Memorial Council

02/12/202202/12/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1002 Views 1 Comment

Kim Beazley has been appointed as Chair of the Australian War Memorial Council. FILE PHOTO (2021): Then Governor of Western

Part of the new Cameron Baird VC MG portrait by Marcus Wills.

Australian Army News Veterans

New Baird VC portrait at AWM

01/12/202201/12/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 856 Views 2 Comments

A new portrait of the late Corporal Cameron Stewart Baird VC MG by Archibald-winning artist Marcus Wills was unveiled at

News Veterans

Veterans/pensioners allowed to earn more before pension affected

01/12/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 447 Views 0 Comments

From today, pensioners over age-pension age and eligible veterans will be able to earn more income from working without reducing

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 528 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’

Chief of Navy Vice Admiral Mark Hammond, Commander Maritime Border Command Rear Admiral Justin Jones and Lieutenant Commander Jared Webb salute as the Last Post is played at the memorial service to commemorate Able Seaman Thomas Welsby Clark (inset) and the rest of the crew of HMAS Sydney (II), which was sunk off the coast of Western Australia on 19 November 1941. Photo by Petty Officer Bradley Darvill.

News Royal Australian Navy Veterans

Commemoration for AB Thomas Welsby Clark and crew of HMAS Sydney (II)

20/11/202220/11/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1294 Views 0 Comments HMAS Sydney II

A commemorative ceremony was held yesterday for Able Seaman Thomas Welsby Clark, the only member of the HMAS Sydney (II)

Australian Army personnel ready to take up the Australian flag from the coffin of Australian WWI soldiers being re-interred in Belgium. The soldiers were finally laid to rest after being thought missing for 90 years. Story by Corporal Jacob Joseph. Photo by Corporal Chris Moore.

Australian Lest We Forget News Veterans

Three previously unknown WWI soldiers identified

18/11/202229/11/2022 Posted by Mike Hughes 234 Views 0 Comments 8th Brigade, Remembrance Day, WWI

The names of three unknown Australian soldiers, who died during some of the bloodiest fighting of World War 1, were

Self medicating. Photo by Brian Hartigan.

ADF News Veterans

Latest official suicide-figures reported

16/11/202216/11/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1036 Views 3 Comments suicide

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

A headstone of an unknown Australian soldier. Photo by Corporal Jake Sims.

Australian News Veterans

Three more WWI soldiers identified

13/11/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1293 Views 2 Comments

Three Australian soldiers of the First World War have been formally identified more than 105 years since they were killed

Chief of the Defence Force General Angus Campbell attends the 2022 Remembrance Day service held at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. Photo by Andrew Green.

Australian Army Lest We Forget News Royal Australian Air Force Royal Australian Navy Veterans

Remembering the fallen

11/11/2022 Posted by Mike Hughes 448 Views 0 Comments Australian War Memorial, Chief of Defence Force, Remembrance Day

Secretary of the Department of Defence Greg Moriarty and Chief of the Defence Force General Angus Campbell were among those

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