Leading Seaman Combat Systems Operator Django Scott-Cowling takes part in a publications exercise on board HMAS Sydney during a regional presence deployment.
26 Aug 2024
Navy
News

Rare chance for healthy competition

HMAS Sydney's combat systems operators go head-to-head in publication competition during Exercise Pacific Dragon.

Alliances & relationships | Exercises & training
Able Seaman Meg Buchanan, right, receives her Navy jersey from ADF All Stars head coach Lieutenant Commander Elisabeth Quinn.
26 Aug 2024
Navy
News

Footy running through her veins

Able Seaman Meg Buchanan’s elite Defence sportsperson status led to her selection by Port Melbourne Football Club.

Sports, health & wellbeing | People & service
HMAS Broome enters Darwin harbour for the last time prior decommissioning at Darwin, NT.
23 Aug 2024
Navy
News

HMAS Broome’s final port call

For its final voyage, HMAS Broome conducted one last port visit to its namesake town in Western Australia.

Capability & technology | Community engagement
Public Affairs Officer for Indo-Pacific Endeavour 2024, Lieutenant Jonathan Wills, visits Henricus Avenue, Colombo, once home to his mother's family and which now bears the family name.
23 Aug 2024
Navy
News

A golden opportunity in Sri Lanka

A deployment to Sri Lanka helped Lieutenant Jonathan Wills uncover his family history during Indo-Pacific Endeavour.

Alliances & relationships | People & service
Members of the Joint Explosives Ordnance Support and Joint Proof and Experimental Unit participate in a school visit in Canberra to showcase their unique STEM careers.
23 Aug 2024
Navy, Army, Air Force
News

Pupils shown STEM career can be a blast

Primary school students gained insight into working in explosive ordnance disposal during National Science Week.

Capability & technology | Community engagement
Leading Seaman Underwater Medic Leith Strachan and Sri Lanka Navy divers discuss diving related medical practices during Indo-Pacific Endeavour activities in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka.
22 Aug 2024
Navy
News

Divers reconnect and build on shared skills

Royal Australian Navy clearance divers sharpened skills with teams from the Sri Lanka Navy as part of Indo-Pacific Endeavour.

Alliances & relationships | Exercises & training
HMAS Sydney fires Navy's first naval strike missile off the Hawaiian coast.
22 Aug 2024
Navy, Air Force
News

Local factory to boost ADF strike power

Australia will contribute $850 million to a project to manufacture and service anti-ship cruise missiles in a facility near Newcastle.

Capability & technology | Industry & partnership
Australian military personnel gather for a dawn service at the Trincomalee Commonwealth War Cemetery in Sri Lanka.
21 Aug 2024
Navy
News

Indo-Pacific partners share history of sacrifice

Personnel gathered for a dawn service at the Commonwealth War Cemetery in Sri Lanka to remember two Australians killed in action.

Ceremonies & events
Graduating students from the Defence Industry Pathways Program, Intake 7, at Bentley Pines Training Restaurant, South Metropolitan TAFE in Perth, Western Australia.
21 Aug 2024
Navy
News

Building Defence’s workforce

Nineteen trainees have graduated from Intake 7 of the Defence Industry Pathways Program in Western Australia.

Industry & partnership | People & service
Commander Indo-Pacific Endeavour Commodore Michael Harris talks to Sri Lanka Navy officers after the Indo-Pacific Endeavour 2024 military law and maritime surveillance workshop.
20 Aug 2024
Navy
News

Indo-Pac partners maintain freedom of the sea

Australia’s regional engagement activity, Indo-Pacific Endeavour, has begun with a law of the sea workshop in Sri Lanka.

Alliances & relationships
Chief Petty Officer Karen Lewis performs her role as a Navy Business Analyst.
19 Aug 2024
Navy, Army
News

Sailor excels in newfound passion  

After 24 years in the Navy, followed by seven years as a reservist, Chief Petty Officer Karen Lewis found her true calling in business and data…

People & service
Army soldiers from the Royal Military College at Duntroon put on a simulated infantry assault as part of the ADFA open day in Canberra on August 19, 2023.
16 Aug 2024
Navy, Army, Air Force
News

Career opportunities on display at open day

It is going to be all hands on deck for the Australian Defence Force Academy’s open day on August 17.

Community engagement | People & service