Home for Christmas
Tears of joy from family and friends provided a warm greeting for HMAS Newcastle when she glided into her homeport at Fleet Base East after a successful deployment to the Persian Gulf.


Foreign rendezvous for ships
After many months of preparations, HMAS Parramatta has arrived on station in the Middle East to take up her patrol.


Key initiative for personnel
You now have control of your personal data through PMKeys Self Service, thanks to PMKeys and the move by Navy and Defence to a “one stop self service shop”.


Anchor slips attention of searchers
HMAS Diamantina and HMAS Huon have helped in the search for an anchor ditched by Abel Tasman during his voyage of discovery in 1642.

Extra punch for boats
The state-of-the-art Collins class submarines will receive a technological boost with the installation of a new combat system and heavyweight torpedoes.

Nation remembers fallen
Australians who lost their lives in service for their country were remembered in services held around the nation last month.

Sporting chance for charity drive
Kangaroo and Wallaby Test legends have been assisting a charity drive to help the daughter of a Navy physical training instructor who has been badly paralysed after an epileptic episode.

Navy aviators fly highest during course
Three sailors reached heights that their Army and Air Force counterparts couldn’t quite manage during a recent Aviation Technician Avionics Course at RAAF Base Wagga.

Aceh relief pictured in new book
Navy photographers have recorded the ADF’s humanitarian aid efforts in Aceh by the publication of a pictorial book to commemorate the event.

Taking it to the streets
More than 500 million people in 116 countries are about to be exposed to the Royal Australian Navy when three documentaries screen on FOXTEL.

10,000 reasons to be healthy
The business management section of the Navy Aviation Systems Program Office (NASPO) has taken steps to improve the health and wellbeing of its workers.

Ship of the desert
Alice Springs is a long, long way from the ocean and the Navy warships that protect Australia’s vast coastline, but that didn’t stop a delegation from HMAS Arunta (CO CMDR Warren Bairstow) from visiting their adopted town recently.

Divisional system works
In a two-part series, WO Darren Jeffs takes a closer look at the divisional system, which is central to the exercise of command.


Destroyer project adds jobs
South Australia will be home to the new headquarters of the Air Warfare Destroyer project creating up to 200 additional jobs in SA

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