The current ADF pay arrangement is due to expire and a new three-year Workplace Remuneration Arrangement (WRA) (2020-2023) is scheduled to commence at the end of this year. The DFWA will once again be involved in the WRA process by way of providing an independent...
Defence
Australian Defence Strategies 2020
Sunday 12th Jul 2020
Foreword The Government’s firm commitment to the Australian people remains that we will keep our nation safe and protect our way of life for future generations.It is clear, however, that Australia’s strategic environment has deteriorated more rapidly than anticipated...
The Australian – Closure now closer for families of Australians lost in Korean war
Thursday 20th Sep 2018
Jamie Walker, Associate Editor 19 September 2018 A long-awaited agreement with the US to identify Australian war dead from the Korean conflict has finally been signed, boosting Canberra’s case to join the Americans in recovering the remains of missing soldiers and...
Battle rages for Diggers – RCB veterans have not surrendered nor will they…
Thursday 20th Sep 2018
ON the night of December 7-8 1941, Japanese forces began invading Malaya, hours before the attack on US territory Pearl Harbour, Australia’s first casualties on December 8 were the crews of two 1Sqn RAAF Hudson bombers from six aircraft dispatched to bomb...
Adelaide TV TodayTonight – Betrayed Soldier
Monday 16th Jul 2018
This is a summary of the Karel Dubsky saga by Today Tonight Adelaide - see it here:
RCB Recognition – Response to Minister Chester and VCDF’s Rejection
Saturday 14th Jul 2018
Yesterday, Friday 13th July the RCBRG sent the following to those named and all politicians in the belief that they as evidence based decision makers will read the facts of the matters themselves and act to have the Government’s decision reversed or to recommend the...
opinion – Who defends our defenders?
Friday 13th Jul 2018
Bill O'Chee Last week Defence admitted former Lt Colonel Karel Dubsky was an innocent victim of the Jedi Council witchhunt that terminated his career and left him a shattered man. That makes it hard to miss the irony that another of nation’s defenders was led to the...
OPINION – Repudiation too little too late
Monday 9th Jul 2018
IT was Australian Chief of Army David Morrison who stridently declared in 2013, “the standard you walk past is the standard you accept”. Last week, in one of his last acts as incumbent CA, incoming CDF General Angus Campbell released a statement declaring Lieutenant...
Defence Retreat – Lt Col Karel Dubsky
Friday 6th Jul 2018
Army Media Release - Statement of service on retired Lieutenant Colonel Karel Dubsky "Karel Dubsky was not a member of the group that called itself the Jedi Council and did not participate in the activities of that group. He freely assisted New South Wales...
For the U.S., a frustrating history of recovering human remains in North Korea
Friday 6th Jul 2018
At their historic summit last month, President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un committed to recovering more American remains, including the “immediate repatriation of those already identified.” Their statement raised hopes that as many as 200 sets believed...