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Investment Boost For Food Science Facility In Scottsdale
Monday, 14 February 2011, 2:40 pm | Australian Defence Force
The Minister for Defence Science and Personnel, Warren Snowdon, and the Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Senator David Feeney, announced today an $18.7 million project to redevelop the Defence Science & Technology Organisation’s nutrition research ... More >>
Memorial Service for Corporal Richard Atkinson
Monday, 14 February 2011, 1:26 pm | Australian Defence Force
A memorial service to honour the life of Corporal Richard Atkinson, killed in action in Afghanistan on 2 February 2011. More >>
Australian Defence Force assistance to Cyclone Yasi cleanup
Friday, 11 February 2011, 10:05 pm | Australian Defence Force
Australian Defence Force assistance to Cyclone Yasi cleanup More than 1200 Australian Defence Force personnel have been directly assisting Queensland Emergency Services in its response to areas affected by Tropical Cyclone Yasi. In the aftermath of the ... More >>
Preparing Our Kids For The Jobs Of The Future
Friday, 11 February 2011, 4:48 pm | Australian Defence Force
Minister for Defence Materiel, Jason Clare and Member for Newcastle, Sharon Grierson today launched Phase 2 of the Manufacturing Success Through Education (ME) Program at the BAE Systems Williamtown facility. More >>
Defence Scholarships Available To Help Tech. Trade Students
Friday, 11 February 2011, 2:29 pm | Australian Defence Force
The Minister for Defence Science and Personnel, Warren Snowdon, today launched a program which is giving hundreds of Year 11 and Year 12 students across Australia a chance to secure a Defence technical trades scholarship. More >>
ANZAC Defence Ministers build on close links
Friday, 11 February 2011, 9:56 am | Australian Defence Force
New Zealand Defence Minister Wayne Mapp met his Australian counterpart Stephen Smith in Wellington today to discuss a range of defence and security issues. More >>
Employers encouraged to support their Reservist staff
Friday, 11 February 2011, 9:53 am | Australian Defence Force
Employers across the nation are being asked to develop Defence Reserve Leave Policies and become “Supportive Employers” as part of a new campaign launched this week. More >>
Corporal Richard Atkinson returns to Australia
Friday, 11 February 2011, 9:51 am | Australian Defence Force
Corporal Richard Atkinson, killed in action in Afghanistan on 2^February 2011, was today formally returned to his family in a moving Ramp Ceremony at RAAF Base Darwin. More >>
Aid: Troops in East Timor repair flood damage in Dili
Thursday, 10 February 2011, 4:51 pm | Australian Defence Force
The Australian-led International Stabilisation Force (ISF) has undertaken emergency repairs to several roads, culverts, drains and a school in Dili, after receiving a late night request from East Timor’s President, Jose Ramos-Horta. More >>
Parliamentarians in Theatres of War with the ADF
Thursday, 10 February 2011, 2:45 pm | Australian Defence Force
Senator David Feeney, Parliamentary Secretary for Defence today launched the 2011 Australian Defence Force Parliamentary Program (ADFPP). More >>
Minister for Defence Stephen Smith: Visit To New Zealand
Thursday, 10 February 2011, 10:09 am | Australian Defence Force
I will depart Australia later today for New Zealand to participate in the annual Australia-New Zealand Defence Ministers’ Talks with New Zealand Defence Minister Dr Wayne Mapp on Thursday in Wellington. More >>
Jehdi Helping Shape E-Health Future
Wednesday, 9 February 2011, 3:04 pm | Australian Defence Force
Minister for Defence Science and Personnel, the Hon. Warren Snowdon MP, today launched plans for a new multi-million dollar electronic health record system for the Australian Defence Force. More >>
Abbott: Australia's troop commitment in Afghanistan
Wednesday, 9 February 2011, 2:26 pm | Australian Defence Force
TONY EASTLEY: Fairfax newspapers are reporting this morning that Defence Force Chiefs are drawing up plans to reduce Australia's troop commitment to Afghanistan this year. The report says the United States' overall commander in Afghanistan, Colonel Jim ... More >>
Australia: Meeting with NATO Deputy Secretary-General
Wednesday, 9 February 2011, 9:45 am | Australian Defence Force
Today I met the NATO Deputy Secretary-General, His Excellency Ambassador Claudio Bisogniero. More >>
Condolence Motion for Corporal Richard Atkinson
Wednesday, 9 February 2011, 9:23 am | Australian Defence Force
I rise to associate myself with the remarks of the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition on our condolence motion for Corporal Richard Atkinson More >>
Report into the Combat Death of AUS Trooper Jason Brown
Monday, 7 February 2011, 3:29 pm | Australian Defence Force
The Vice Chief of the Defence Force, Lieutenant General David Hurley AC DSC, today released the Inquiry Officer’s report into the death of Trooper Jason Brown who was killed on operational service in Afghanistan on 13 August 2010. Trooper Brown ... More >>
Farewell to a brother in arms
Sunday, 6 February 2011, 8:11 pm | Australian Defence Force
Fallen Australian engineer Corporal Richard Atkinson was farewelled from Afghanistan overnight in a moving memorial service at Multi-National Base Tarin Kot. More >>
Operation Queensland Flood Assist
Saturday, 5 February 2011, 1:36 pm | Australian Defence Force
The Joint Task Force leading the Australian Defence Force rescue and relief effort in response to the devastating Queensland floods concluded operations yesterday and the mission has now transitioned to one of recovery. More >>
Silverwater company helping our troops to fly
Friday, 4 February 2011, 4:48 pm | Australian Defence Force
The pilots who rescued hundreds of Queenslanders during the floods and delivered food, medical equipment and sandbags, learnt to fly on simulators supplied or maintained by Silverwater company CAE. Minister for Defence Materiel Jason Clare and Member ... More >>
Afghans and Australians work for a secure Uruzgan
Friday, 4 February 2011, 3:53 pm | Australian Defence Force
The last week of January saw Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers and their Australian mentors remove significant quantities of explosives, ordnance and weapons from insurgents located within the Baluchi Valley area of Uruzgan Province. More >>
