Tag: military

Russia has invaded Ukraine after they have threatened to take action against them themselves. Other members have expressed disappointment.

Exercises are scheduled for Queensland and the NT, with more than a thousand personnel involved, Department of Defence announces.

RAN’s three Hobart-class destroyers have reached final operational capability after the third ship completed successful tests off North America.

Country’s new space defence capability begins operating next year and will cost taxpayers around $7-billion over the following decade.

Saluting Their Service grants program provides more than $1-million to community groups that commemorate wartime service of Australians.

Personnel are to enter Australia as part of training activities with the Defence College, but will have their own quarantine arrangements.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has likened the ever worsening civil war in Syria to past atrocities, warning the world would be judged for inaction.

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has called the alleged chemical attack on civilians in Damascus "repugnant" as France pledges armed intervention in the Syrian civil war.

Further details of the conduct of the Australian army’s so-called “Jedi Council” have been disclosed via the media, and includes senior officers and long-serving members of the defence force.

Opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison has said that elite SAS troops should be sent on-board boats carrying asylum seekers that threaten self-harm in an attempt to be allowed into Australia.

Sensitive documents leaked by NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden have revealed that several Australian facilities are actively contributing to a controversial American intelligence collection program.

Defence has launched a massive investigation into more than 100 army and other personnel over the distribution of offensive images of women.

Australian news organisations have reported that Prince Harry will join the Australian Army for a six-month period on secondment later this year, with UK royal officials currently assessing the security risks that such a deployment would involve.