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Timor-Leste

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.
ADF Asia New Zealand News Operations Veterans 

25 years since INTERFET deployment

20/09/202420/09/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 5019 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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Then Flying Officer Harvey Reynolds, second from left, during his INTERFET deployment with 2 Airfield Defence Squadron on a routine patrol of Atauro Island, East Timor. Story by John Noble.
ADF People History Overseas 

Aviators remember ‘significant moment’ in peacekeeping

20/09/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 1407 Views 0 Comments Timor-Leste, UN Peacekeeping

In September of 1999, the world’s attention was firmly fixed on East Timor as it sought to restore its independence.

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Partners from Timor-Leste government agencies with ADF military legal officer instructors at the front of Sparrow Force House in Dili, Timor-Leste.
Asia Australian Army News Royal Australian Navy 

Workshop helps strengthen ties with Timor-Leste

11/11/2022 Posted by Mike Hughes 1559 Views 0 Comments Indo-Pacific Endeavour, Timor-Leste

A team of three military legal officers from the ADF Indo-Pacific Centre for Military Law visited Timor-Leste to deliver maritime

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Auxiliary Oiler Replenishment vessel HMAS Stalwart arrives enters Tibar Bay Port in Dili, Timor-Leste as part of Indo-Pacific Endeavour 2022. Story by Captain Lily Charles. Photo by Petty Officer Jake Badior.
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Visit to Timor-Leste a time for reflection

01/11/2022 Posted by Mike Hughes 2225 Views 0 Comments 1st Brigade, Australian Army Band, HMAS Stalwart, Indo-Pacific Endeavour, Timor-Leste, Timor-Leste Defence Force

For Brigadier Malcolm Wells, returning to Timor-Leste for Indo-Pacific Endeavour (IPE) more than 20 years after his first deployment to

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HMAS Stalwart sails into Timor-Leste during Indo-Pacific Endeavour 2022. Story by Captain Lily Charles. Photo by Corporal Brandon Grey.
Asia News Royal Australian Navy 

A first for Stalwart on deployment

07/10/2022 Posted by Mike Hughes 2164 Views 0 Comments HMAS Adelaide, HMAS Anzac, HMAS Arunta, HMAS Hobart, HMAS Stalwart, Indo-Pacific Endeavour, Timor-Leste

HMAS Stalwart has completed its first visit to a foreign port while deployed in support of Indo-Pacific Endeavour 2022 (IPE22).

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Army carpenter Corporal Courtney Donovan deployed to Timor-Leste on Exercise Hari'i Hamutuk 2021. Story and photo by Leading Seaman Jarrod Mulvihill.
ADF People 

Army chippie builds more than a career

06/10/2021 Posted by Mike Hughes 1440 Views 0 Comments Exercise Hari’i Hamutuk, Timor-Leste

Growing up in tropical Townsville, Corporal Courtney Donovan knew she always wanted to join the Army. CAPTION: Army carpenter Corporal

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Australian Army soldier Corporal Zed Zapletal works alongside Timor-Leste Defence Force soldiers during a lesson on chainsaw maintenance and operation during Exercise Hari'i Hamutuk 2021 at Metinaro Military Base, Timor-Leste. Story and photo by Leading Seaman Jarrod Mulvhill.
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Building defence capability in Timor-Leste

29/09/2021 Posted by Mike Hughes 2361 Views 0 Comments Exercise Hari'i Hamutuk 2021, Timor-Leste

ADF personnel have been working with personnel from partner nations to help develop Timor-Leste’s defence capability in the largest annual

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Private Noel Goncalves at the Tilomar Border Outpost in Timor-Leste during his deployed on Exercise Hari'i Hamutuk 2021. Story and photo by Leading Seaman Jarrod Mulvihill.
ADF People 

Helping his country of birth a highlight

22/09/2021 Posted by Mike Hughes 1491 Views 0 Comments Timor-Leste

Since 2018, Private Noel Goncalves, from 1st Combat Engineer Regiment, has found himself back in his birth country each year

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GLENO, Timor Leste (June 15, 2016) Cpl. Anatoliy Derepa, a member of the New Zealand Defense Force, and a native of Wellington, New Zealand, assigned to USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), educates local Timorese children at the Dona Ana Lemos Escuela elementary school on basic oral hygiene during a Pacific Partnership 2016 health outreach event. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class William Cousins/Released)
New Zealand News Overseas 

Pacific Partnership visits Timor-Leste

28/06/2016 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4453 Views 0 Comments Pacific Partnership, Timor-Leste

Nine New Zealand Defence Force personnel took part in a number of community engagements during a recent two-week humanitarian visit

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