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ADFRA – DFRDB UPDATE – OCTOBER 2023

ADFRA – DFRDB UPDATE – OCTOBER 2023

We have remained quiet while the question of the Voice was being addressed, but not idle.Earlier this year, we wrote to Senators and Members of Parliament to again express our concerns, and several forwarded them to the Minister, the Hon Matt Keogh MP and the Shadow...

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Remembering the Battle for Australia

Remembering the Battle for Australia

Today, we commemorate the Battle for Australia, remembering the brave Australians who defended our nation by land, sea and air during the Second World War.   When the island fortress of Singapore fell on 15 February 1942, Prime Minister John Curtin said it was...

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Vale: Lt Col Harry. A. Smith SG MC (retd) 1933-2023

Vale: Lt Col Harry. A. Smith SG MC (retd) 1933-2023

The RAR is saddened by his passing. Lieutenant Colonel Harry Arthur Smith, SG, MC was a senior officer in the Australian Army, seeing service during the Malayan Emergency and the Vietnam War. He was the Officer Commanding D Company, 6th Battalion, Royal Australian...

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DVA Statement – Veterans’ MATES program

DVA Statement – Veterans’ MATES program

In response to recent public commentary on the Veterans MATES program DVA has released this Statement. The Veterans’ MATES program has been operating for more than 18 years to provide a valuable proactive service addressing ‘real life’ health care problems in the...

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Seventy years on, the Korean War still resonates

Seventy years on, the Korean War still resonates

Commemorations in South Korea yesterday, and elsewhere around the world, marked the 70th anniversary of the signing of the Korean War armistice at Panmunjom on 27 July 1953. Today, amid the war in Ukraine and tensions in East Asia that could flare into hostilities,...

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Government shared veterans’ confidential medical data

Government shared veterans’ confidential medical data

Identified medical records belonging to 300,000 veterans, widows and others connected to the Department of Veterans’ Affairs have been routinely provided to a university for cost-saving research without the knowledge or consent of the people involved. The practice,...

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