EXCLUSIVE BREAKING NEWS: Diggers vs the Gillard Government | Independent Australia http://www.independentaustralia.net/2011/politics/exclusive-breaking-news-diggers-versus-the-gillard-government/ EXCLUSIVE BREAKING NEWS: Diggers vs the Gillard Government BREAKING NEWS….INDEPENDENT AUSTRALIA EXCLUSIVE KNOW YOUR ENEMY — DIGGERS VERSUS THE GILLARD GOVERNMENT by Tess Lawrence By Tess Lawrence | Contributing editor-at-large “In 30 years as a member of the Labor Party, I continually found […]
DEFENCE COMMUNITY ISSUES An annual Issues Paper is co-ordinated and compiled by the DFWA from contributing ESOs. It identifies the major concerns facing the defence community (current and past servicemen and women and their families). They form the basis of detailed and separate submissions to the Parliament and representations to the political parties/ independents and […]
NOTICES DATE DIGGERS LUNCH: LAST FRIDAY EACH MONTH – GAYTHORNE RSL POC: Ken Cullen (07) 3289 4052 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (07) 3289 4052 end_of_the_skype_highlighting LOCSTAT HERE DAD’S ARMY JOIN US EACH MONDAY MORNING POEM: A FAIR GO AND NO MORE BETRAYAL – GEORGE MANSFORD The Defence Force Welfare Association and its Alliance* partners welcome the coming debate on fair […]
ROYAL AUSTRALIAN REGIMENT ASSOCIATIONS States Queensland RAR Association South Australia RAR Association Victoria RAR Association Western Australia RAR Association Tasmania RAR Association Northern Territory RAR Association Australian Capital Territory RAR Association Battalion Associations 1 RAR 2 RAR 3 RAR 4 RAR 5 RAR 6 RAR 7 RAR 8 RAR 9 RAR National 9 RAR (Qld) […]
NATIONAL MEMORIALS The Royal Australian Regiment National Memorial Walk is a ‘living” memorial to commemorate those soldiers who have died while serving overseas with the Regiment. View the Roll of Honour here. To commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Regiment’s formation, The Royal Australian Regiment Association built the National Memorial Walk and Contemplation Building at […]
The Royal Australian Regiment Corporation (The Company) is the national representative body of its constituent members: the RAR State/Territory and Battalion Associations/Corporation. It was formed in 2009 to: enhance and protect the legal rights and limited liability of its members, broaden the opportunities previously not available to an unincorporated entity, appoint a Board that is […]
POEM: A FAIR GO AND NO MORE BETRAYAL – GEORGE MANSFORD The Defence Force Welfare Association and its Alliance* partners welcome the coming debate on fair indexation for military superannuants, expected to occur later this month in the Senate with the tabling of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Amendment (Fair Indexation) Bill 2010. […]
The Chairman of the RAR Corporation Michael von Berg MC has offered his deepest sympathies to the family of Sapper Jamie Robert Larcombe, who was killed in action during operations in Afghanistan on Saturday 19th February 2011. Sapper Larcombe was serving with 1st Combat Engineer Regiment on operations with Mentoring Task Force 2 when he […]
The Chairman of the RAR Corporation MichaeL von Berg MC has offered his deepest sympathies to the family of Corporal Richard Edward Atkinson, who was killed in action during o perations in Afghanistan on Wednesday 2nd February 2011. Corporal Atkinson was serving with 1st Combat Engineer Regiment on operations with Mentoring Task Force 2 when he tragically […]
Major General B.W. (Hori) Howard, AO, MC, ESM (Retd) Colonel Commandant The Royal Australian Regiment Colonel Commandant The Royal Australian Regiment Corporation 15 Balfour Road AUSTINMER NSW 2515 25 January 2011 Corporal Benjamin Roberts-Smith, VC, MG The Special Air Service Regiment Campbell Barracks SWANBOURNE WA 6010 On behalf of the Royal Australian Regiment, and of […]
Australian Army Awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia Corporal Benjamin Roberts-Smith, VC, MG For the most conspicuous gallantry in action in circumstances of extreme peril as Patrol Second-in-Command, Special Operations Task Group on Operation SLIPPER. Corporal Benjamin Roberts Smith enlisted in the Australian Regular Army in 1996. After completing the requisite courses, he was posted […]
“KEEPING THE SPIRIT ALIVE” The Association is “Keeping the Spirit Alive”. It recognises that the Regiment’s binding force is that welded by its men who in serving Australia in the Regiment developed an esprit de corps, second to none, for its living and its dead.The Association fosters and keeps that spirit alive through caring for […]
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