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TESTING TIMES AHEAD
Navy steers course towards drug and alcohol testing

The Navy has targeted drug and alcohol abuse as its highest priorities for workplace safety reform.
Random alcohol breath testing will be implemented in the New Year in a program dubbed Safe Spirit.
Testing for prohibited drugs, which is already allowable, will be stepped up with the introduction of random urinanalysis, currently under review by a Navy working group.

Bikfala sip safely home

HMAS Manoora, the RAN’s 8,450-tonne amphibious transport ship the Solomon Islanders dubbed the “bikfala sip”, is safely home.
After six months serving in Operation Falconer in The Gulf and Operation Anode in the Solomons, CMDR Martin Brooker and his ship’s company of 260 sailors and soldiers, brought Manoora home to Fleet Base East on November 6.
More than 200 family members and friends waited on the wharf to give them a warm welcome.

News Headlines

Sporting News

	Testing times ahead
	Sobering news for the New Year
	Cream of the crop rises to the top
	Out with the old, in with the new
	Briefs
	She’s looking good
	Pacific expo invites out
	Baby crackles to life
	Bush telegraph sends message
	Whyalla takes Tina Turtle to city limits

	Eyes in the sky at Albatross
	Five-star success for culinary staff
	Devotion lands commendation

	Pedallers power on
	Good sports on deployment
	Albatross swoops up Adelaide Cup
	Harman humbles soccer hopefuls
	Team shows military muscle
	AGM on agenda

Hard at work on the communications net during recent exercises.
Photo: POPH Steve Coates

Volume 46, No. 21
Nov 20, 2003