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Australia’s contribution to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) has ended. Since July 2008, the Australian Defence Force has contributed two Army Officers to the UNAMI. This contribution was designated Operation RIVERBANK.  The final rotation of the two officers completed their deployment and departed Iraq on 25 November 2013. Chief of Joint Operations […]

by: Amanda Partridge From: Macarthur Chronicle Campbelltown November 15, 2013 4:10PM   Kevin Wheatley’s children Phyllis Everill, George Wheatley and Ellie Roach, and his wife Edna (front) with the memorial at Mawson Park. Picture: TIM CLAPIN Source: News Limited FORTY eight years after war hero and Victoria Cross recipient Warrant Officer Kevin “Dasher” Wheatley laid down his life for a […]

Stand Tall is a PTS information program initiated by Tony Dell a national serviceman 2 RAR Vietnam veteran and an Australian Test Team cricketer. He suffers with PTS. Watch the video here

Today I pass on some very sad news … At approximately 3:00pm on Wednesday, 23rd of September, Brigadier Ivan (Lou) Brumfield CBE, DSO (Rtd) passed away peacefully. As Commanding Officer of the 1RAR Group in Vietnam 1965 he was highly respected as a leader of men in combat. That respect continued right up to now and will […]

Veterans’ campaigner Graham Walker’s 21 years in the Australian Regular Army included active service during the Indonesian Confrontation and the Vietnam War. He was Mentioned in Despatches and awarded the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry with Silver Star. After retiring from the Australian Army in the early 1980s, Graham shifted his focus to the domestic battleground […]

A first-hand view of fighting the communist terrorists — Hussaini Abdul Karim, August 30, 2011 AUG 30 — A week before we received our Agong‟s commission, which was to be held on April 14, 1972, all Royal Military College (RMC), Sungei Besi, Kuala Lumpur graduating officer cadets of Short Service Commission Intake 20 and Regular Commission […]

I often think of warriors who fought the fight To ensure that our way of life was kept right In arenas of cruel harsh terrain, day and night Desert, jungle and mountain height Their bed a mattress of rock or muddy ground Home a shell scrape or behind a dirt mound A smothering dark bunker […]

Suddenly, bright blinding light from a bursting flare A weary soldier woken from bliss to living nightmare Sweet dreams of his wife stolen by the uninvited glare In a pulse beat he senses new danger on a hill of madness A crowded noisy theatre complete with death and sadness Stumbling footsteps are near and shouts […]

The attached letter is to advise that the Repatriation Commission has endorsed revised Guidelines on the Special Rate and Intermediate Rate of disability pension under the Veterans’ Entitlement Act 1986 (VEA). The revised Guidelines are titled CM6882 Special Rate and Intermediate Rate of pension and are now available in the Department of Veteran Affairs Consolidated Library of Information and Knowledge. […]

Hi Folks   It is that time again to put together the team/s for ‘Push to the Bush’ for 2013.   For those who don’t know what this is, this will be the 8th year that we have organised groups  of Veterans to go out to the small country towns and take the message of […]

  Wednesday, 6 March 2013                                                                                                               VA018     CHANGES TO AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL ROLL OF HONOUR APPLAUDED     The Council of the Australian War Memorial has today agreed to recognise all members of the Australian Defence Force who have died on operational service, including non-warlike operations, on the Roll of Honour.   Minister for […]

Guys, Have just received a reply letter from Senator Ronaldson, shadow minister for VA. As you can read from its content, the incoming Lib Gov will not be reviewing the RCB issue when they take power. Robert Cross