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...
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,...
the herding of people onto cattle 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...
Next we move to President George H.W. Bush, who, as his term was ending in 1992, issued a pardon to Caspar Weinberger, former Secretary of Defence under Ronald Reagan, and five others for their involvement in the Iran-Contra scandal. Details around this pardon can be foundhere, but the ...
Hartcher ends optimistically, saying that since Prabowo (in his previous capacity as Defence Minister) signed a defence agreement with Marles, the attendance of the latter at a major ceremonial event would not be a problem. So Australia finds itself in the fortunate position of being able to ...
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. ...
In one of the biggest spending Budgets we’ve seen in almost a decade, the overall investment in cybersecurity is pretty disappointing. The bolstering of Defence budgets and investments in education are great to see, but the Budget really doesn’t address what the Government said was such an...
Science, Medical, Defence, Agricultural, HouseholdEvery child growing up in Australia in the 1950s and 1960s learned of the first inhabitants' tools and inventions - the digeridoo, a renowned wind instrument; the globally recognized curved throwing stick called the boomerang; and the woomera, a ...
His game is built around impenetrable defence. But even though they both defend well, he and Nadal are not a similar match up. Thiem needed to make big adjustments so you can’t really compare his level between the two. Pablo says: February 3, 2020 at 5:21 pm Young Nadal is the ...
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...