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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
Royal Australian Navy destroyer HMAS Hobart prepares to berth in Hobart, Tasmania, in support of the 184th Royal Hobart Regatta. Photo: Leading Seaman Daniel Goodman
28 Feb 2022
Navy
News

HMAS Hobart comes home for regatta

HMAS Hobart has provided an impressive backdrop in the Derwent River for the 184th Royal Hobart Regatta from February 12-14.  

Ceremonies & events
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
Able Seaman Shannae Fiddyment conducts a survey in waters off Pangaimotu Island, Tonga, as part of Operation Tonga Assist 2022. Photo: Petty Officer Jake Badior
25 Feb 2022
Navy
News

Charting in Tonga a highlight in sailor's story

Able Seaman Shannae Fiddyment started this year with a career opportunity of a lifetime, deploying on Operation Tonga Assist 2022.

People & service
The Royal Australian Navy Band Tasmania performs at the 184th Royal Hobart Regatta in Hobart. Photo: Leading Seaman Daniel Goodman
25 Feb 2022
Navy
News

Navy band rocks the regatta

The music of the Royal Australian Navy Band Tasmania filled the air in Hobart when it performed at the Royal Hobart Regatta.

Community engagement
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…

Community engagement
An Air Force aviator and an Australian Medical Assistance Team member help unload Australian Government critical aid supplies from the Solomon Airlines aircraft at Auki airport, Solomon Islands. Photo: Corporal Jarrod McAneney
24 Feb 2022
Navy, Army, Air Force
News

ADF delivers urgent supplies in Solomon Islands

ADF personnel have helped get 28 tonnes of urgent medical and food supplies to remote areas of Solomon Islands.

Alliances & relationships
HMAS Glenelg personnel clean-up a beach on Direction Island, which is part of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands group, during their recent Operation Resolute deployment. Photo: Sub Lieutenant Luke Bennet
23 Feb 2022
Navy
News

Crew cleans remote beach

Some of the crew of HMAS Glenelg went ashore on the remote Cocos (Keeling) Islands to clean up a beach.

Community engagement
ADF personnel participated in the Summer Criterium Series cycling event held at HMAS Stirling in Western Australia. Photo: Leading Seaman Ernesto Sanchez
23 Feb 2022
Navy
News

Cyclists race at Stirling

A cool sea breeze provided some respite from the rising heat for cyclists racing at HMAS Stirling when the base hosted the seventh event of the…

Sports, health & wellbeing
ADF personnel of Tongan heritage assisted with a contactless delivery of humanitarian stores to 'Eua Island as part of Operation Tonga Assist 2022. Photo: Leading Seaman David Cox.
22 Feb 2022
Navy, Army
News

No port access? No problem for ADF

The ADF has airlifted more than 40 tonnes of stores from Tonga’s capital, Nuku’alofa, to a large populated island with no port access.

Relief & assistance
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