The Prime Minister and Defence Minister were kept busy informing the Australian public about the ADF commitments through out the fire season. Elements from the Air Force, Army and Navy have all been involved in many different missions to assist where needed. With missions that included refuelling,...
"So, it's essentially sitting up on blocks for two years, out of the water because Navy doesn't have the people and I think that's really a microcosm of the challenges the defence force is facing. "Defence is finding it really hard to recruit: it takes a long time to train a subma...
CANBERRA, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- The Naval Shipbuilding Advisory Board (NSAB) urged the Defence Department to withdraw its major French submarine deal, which is already nine months behind the schedule, according to an audit released by the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) on Tuesday. The...
Australian Peace Officer Guard (P.O.G) King's Crown, cap badge. Formed in 1925 after the NSW Police refused to serve Commonwealth warrants on striking dockers. Also worn by members of the D.E.G. (Defence Establishment Guard) during WW2. Hallmarked "Stokes" and numbered. c1928 - 1958.Sc...
Australia. The RHIBs provide the Royal Australian Navy with an over the horizon interception and boarding capability. Australian Border Force and Defence Force personnel are currently patrolling waters in the northern department of Torres Strait as part of Maritime Border Command operatio...
Another such refugee camp was theShatila refugee camp, south of Beirut which in 1982 was the site of a massacre, the slaughtering of over 4,000 men, women and children by a militia controlled by the Israeli Defence Force. The Shatila Refugee‘s current population is almost 10,000 registere...
During World War I an extensive security state developed in Australia, consisting of police forces at the state level, intelligence branches within the defence forces, federal surveillance organizations and a Commonwealth (federal) police force. World War I not only depleted the numbers of qualified ...
flag in the Islamophobic world of the transnational Right. The mass and prolonged slaughter of Palestinian Muslims (and Christians) cannot be seen as a crime committed against other humans in this worldview. The bloodshed must be revered as a form of “moral courage” in defence of the West....
truck, the unloading and deciding who would be fit for work and who would be sent to ‘the showers’, and in the case of Eichmann, his defence was that all he did was record information passed down to him, his was essentially a clerical function, recording the numbers of people dealt ...
Australian Army spots around the world 'unsustainable in the long term'.5 http://anz.theoildrum.com/node/3480 If rising costs and dwindling supplies of oil have the potential to do this to the US military, it is likely that the Australian Defence Force (ADF) will face similar problems. ...