Image Gallery: September 2010
23 September 2010
Defence congratulates Defence 2020 students
Vice Chief of the Defence Force, Lieutenant General David Hurley, today congratulated students participating in the Defence 2020 National Participation Challenge (NPC) at Old Parliament House in Canberra.
“The Defence 2020 initiative aims to increase awareness and understanding of the role the ADF has within the Australian community,” LTGEN Hurley said.
The 26 students, from across Australia, were chosen to participate in the NPC on the basis of submissions they made to the Defence 2020 topic: Is the Spirit of ANZAC Relevant to the ADF and Australian Society Today?
“The NPC has provided these students the opportunity to see firsthand what the Australian Defence Force (ADF) today is all about. The students have displayed a remarkable drive and understanding of the often complex Defence and social issues,” LTGEN Hurley said.
The NPC challenges the students to critically analyse information and come away with their own perspective of this year's topic. They will take this experience back to their schools and help promote greater understanding of Defence and the ADF among their peers, and within their communities.
“I congratulate all students who have participated, in the Defence 2020 program in 2010, and especially those students chosen for the National Challenge. They have represented themselves and their schools with great distinction,” he said.
Defence 2020 is an education resource program, developed under contract by Ryebuck Media, designed to help students investigate the relevance of Defence issues to their own lives. The program also seeks to raise awareness of the ADF among school-aged students and identify the organisation as sharing its values with the Australia
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Harrison Marley from Mindarie Senior High School in Western Australia reads the names on the wall of remembrance at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra.
(Date taken: 21 September 2010)
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Carmanah District High School students Ebonie Stevens (front) and Claudia Hortin (rear) read through the thousands of names on the wall of remembrance at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
(Date taken: 21 September 2010)
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Carmanah District High School students Ebonie Stevens (front) and Claudia Hortin (rear) read through the thousands of names on the wall of remembrance at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
(Date taken: 21 September 2010)
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St Joseph's College students Hannah Blinman (front) and Jesse Thompson (rear) read through the thousands of names on the wall of remembrance at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
(Date taken: 21 September 2010)
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St Joseph's College students Hannah Blinman (front) and Jesse Thompson (rear) read through the thousands of names on the wall of remembrance at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
(Date taken: 21 September 2010)
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Mindarie Senior High School students Glen Stevens (front) and Harrison Marley (rear) talk about the thousands of names on the Poppy-filled wall of remembrance at the Australian War memorial in Canberra.
(Date taken: 21 September 2010)
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Group Captain Ken Given explains to Tasmania's Bothwell District High School student, Jasmin Shearer, the significance of the eternal flame at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
(Date taken: 21 September 2010)
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Edward Pitt from New Town High School in Tasmania studies one of the many dioramas in the First World War Wing of the Australian War Memorial Museum in Canberra.
(Date taken: 21 September 2010)
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Edward Pitt from New Town High School in Tasmania studies one of the many dioramas in the First World War Wing of the Australian War Memorial Museum in Canberra.
(Date taken: 21 September 2010)
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Thomas Guthrie of St Edmund's College in the ACT in front of the World War One Memorial during the Defence 2020 National Youth Challenge in Canberra.
(Date taken: 21 September 2010)
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Adam Ryan from Darwin High School in front of the World War One Memorial during the Defence 2020 National Youth Challenge in Canberra.
(Date taken: 21 September 2010)
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Adam Ryan from Darwin High School in front of the World War One Memorial during the Defence 2020 National Youth Challenge in Canberra.
(Date taken: 21 September 2010)
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South Australian school students (front to back) Dion Anderson from Reynella East High School, Madeleine Tregilgas from Murrylands Christian School and Jason Byrne also from Reynella East High School, at the Korean War Memorial in Canberra during the Defence 2020 Youth Challenge.
(Date taken: 21 September 2010)
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South Australian school students Dion Anderson (front left), Madeleine Tregilgas (right) and Jason Byrne (back) at the Korean War Memorial in Canberra during the Defence 2020 Youth Challenge.
(Date taken: 21 September 2010)
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Students from Great Southern Grammer, Katie McAllister (front) and Gabrielle Ruttico (rear) look into the engine of the Prime Ministers plane at No.34 Squadron in Canberra.
(Date taken: 21 September 2010)
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Boeing Business Jet Pilot, Pilot Officer Liam Klein shows Angela Taljaard and Michael Weinand from St Ives High School New South Wales over the cockpit of the Prime Ministers plane.
(Date taken: 21 September 2010)
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Defence 2020 Youth Challenge participants in front of a RAAF Boeing Business Jet at 34 Squadron in Canberra.
(Date taken: 21 September 2010)
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Officer Cadet Jack Weeks speaks with Queensland school students (L-R) Logan Steinhardt from Brisbane Adventist Academy, Bella May Siljuk from Nambour Christian College and Emily Batista from Maleny State High School about life at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA).
(Date taken: 21 September 2010)
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Officer Cadet Matthew Holecek speaks with Defence 2020 participants about life at the Australian Defence Force Academy.
(Date taken: 21 September 2010)
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Army Captain Ben Jarratt talks to Victorian school students (L-R) Tessa Johnston (Loyola College), Samuel Carl (Mazenod College) and James Young (Loyola College), about his job in the Australian Defence Force.
(Date taken: 22 September 2010)
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Army Captain Ben Jarratt talks to Victorian Loyola College students Tessa Johnston and James Young, about his job in the Australian Defence Force.
(Date taken: 22 September 2010)
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Flying Officer Chelsea Bulfield speaks to Tasmanian school students (L-R) Isabelle Patch from Hillard Christian School, Edward Pitt from New Town High School, Jasmin Shearer from Bothwell District High School, Amy-Jane Smith from Penguin High School, and Shannon Hunt from Kings Meadow High School, about life in the Royal Australian Air Force.
(Date taken: 22 September 2010)
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