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  Chief of Army Lieutenant General Rick Burr with Corporal Quinn Jensen, left, and Corporal Taylor Cameron in front of a painting of Trooper Jonathon Church at Army Headquarters in Canberra. Photo: Corporal Sagi Biderman
03 Mar 2022
Army
News

Embodiment of 'good soldiering'

Compassion and respect were at the heart of each Jonathan Church Good Soldiering Award ambassador’s story, recognised at a ceremony on March 1. 

People & service
Army soldier Corporal Daniel Norrie on Pangaimotu Island, Tonga, as part of HMAS Adelaide's amphibious beach team. Photo: Petty Officer Jake Badior
03 Mar 2022
Navy, Army
News

Deployment to Tonga meaningful

This year began in a meaningful way for one Army cargo operator when he deployed on Operation Tonga Assist 2022.

Relief & assistance
Sergeant Chris Finch, left, received a Jonathan Church Good Soldiering Award at Russell Offices in Canberra yesterday, joined by family members Squadron Leader Stephen Finch, Mrs Annie Finch and Major Michael Finch. Photo: Sergeant Matthew Bickerton.
02 Mar 2022
Army, Air Force
News

Service a family affair

Although their father is an Air Force squadron leader, all three sons of the Finch family preferred a green uniform.

People & service
Soldiers from 5RAR assist residents of aged-care facilities evacuate during Operation Flood Assist 2022 in Brisbane.
02 Mar 2022
Army
News

Soldiers rescue aged care residents 

Soldiers from 5RAR helped evacuate more than 100 aged care residents from two facilities in Brisbane yesterday during the flood emergency.

People & service
 Soldiers from 5th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, assist with the clean-up at a nursing home in Brisbane. Photo: Leading Air Crewman John Solomon
01 Mar 2022
Army
News

Soldiers help with flood clean-up

Soldiers from 5RAR helped staff at a Brisbane aged care facility clean up after flooding at the weekend.

People & service
Soldiers from 2RAR's small boat platoon move 2nd Combat Engineer Regiment personnel onto Atata Island in Tonga. Photo: Petty Officer Jake Badior
01 Mar 2022
Army
News

Amphibious platoon shows its versatility

Army's small boat platoon soldiers have shown their versatility on Operation Tonga Assist 2022.

Relief & assistance
Navy sailor Able Seaman Christina Heron clears dead vegetation on Pangaimotu Island, Tonga, during Operation Tonga Assist 2022. Photo: Leading Seaman David Cox
28 Feb 2022
Navy, Army
News

Pangiamotu Island clean-up begins

ADF personnel have rehabilitated a tsunami-damaged monument that marks where Tonga’s first Catholic mass was conducted in 1842.

Relief & assistance
Army soldiers from the School of Army Aviation arrive safely at RAAF Base Amberley after rescuing several south-east Queensland community members affected by the rising flood waters.
27 Feb 2022
Army, Air Force
News

Army aircrews to the rescue

The Australian Army has provided critical support to the emerging Queensland flood crisis. Two Army MRH-90 Taipan helicopters from the School of Army…

Relief & assistance
ADF personnel from the Aged Care Support Planning and Coordination Team working with Department of Health personnel in Canberra. Photo: Kym Smith
25 Feb 2022
Navy, Army, Air Force
News

ADF support to aged care set to increase

Twenty-four medical teams have assisted at aged-care facilities in the first weeks of ADF support to the aged-care sector.

People & service
Australian Army soldier Lance Corporal Kobie Rogers, right, and Republic of Fiji Military Forces engineer Sapper Ilimotama Bulusui cut a downed tree on Atata Island, Tonga. Photo: Corporal Robert Whitmore
24 Feb 2022
Navy, Army
News

Atata Island clean-up progresses

Australian and Fijian soldiers have made considerable progress in a joint effort to clean-up tsunami-damaged Atata Island in Tonga.

Relief & assistance
A Navy deployable geospatial support team from HMAS Adelaide surveys the beach on Pangaimotu Island in Tonga. Photo: Petty Officer Jake Badior
24 Feb 2022
Navy, Army
News

Beach survey paves way for relief effort

ADF teams are doing final survey work to enable humanitarian assistance to start on Pangaimotu Island in Tonga.

Relief & assistance
HMAS Anzac crew deployed on Indo-Pacific Endeavour 2021 show the personalised quilts and laundry bags made for them by volunteers from Aussie Hero Quilts. Photo: Leading Seaman Leo Baumgartner
24 Feb 2022
Navy, Army, Air Force
News

Quilters stitch together a decade of support

In the 10 years since the first quilt was sewn, Aussie Hero Quilts' founder Jan-Maree Ball and her team have made 14,000 quilts and 33,000 laundry…

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