09 March 2009
Honouring Caribou's Service to Australia
The Minister for Defence, the Hon. Joel Fitzgibbon MP and the Deputy Prime Minister, the Hon. Julia Gillard MP, announced today that the DHC-4 Caribou’s extraordinary 45 years of operational service in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) will be honoured with one aircraft being gifted to the RAAF Museum at Point Cook and one to the Australian War Memorial.
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Director RAAF Museum, Mr David Gardner, accepts Caribou 152 which The Minister of Defence, The Hon. Joel Fitzgibbon MP, presented at RAAF Williams, Point Cook Base, Victoria.
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The Minister of Defence, The Hon. Joel Fitzgibbon MP, sits in the cockpit of Caribou 152 at RAAF Williams, Point Cook Base, Victoria.
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The Minister of Defence, The Hon. Joel Fitzgibbon MP, sits in the cockpit of Caribou 152 at RAAF Williams, Point Cook Base, Victoria.
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The Minister of Defence, The Hon. Joel Fitzgibbon MP, chats to Royal Australian Airforce Pilots and the Director of the RAAF Museum, Mr David Gardner, about the presentation of the Caribou aicraft at RAAF Williams, Point Cook Base, Victoria.
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Left - Right: Minister for Veterans Affairs Alan Griffin, the Minister for Defence, the Hon. Joel Fitzgibbon MP and Prime Minister of East Timor, Xanana Gusmao hold a press conference at the Palazzio in Dili, East Timor.
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President of East Timor, Jose Ramos Horta, presents The Minister for Defence, the Hon. Joel Fitzgibbon MP with a box of Presidential label coffee at his residence in Dili, East Timor.
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(Left to right): President of East Timor Jose Ramos Horta, the Minister for Defence, the Hon. Joel Fitzgibbon MP, Group Captain Ralph Kettle, Commander International Stabilisation Force Brigadier Bill Sowry and Chief of Defence Force, Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston share a joke at the President's residence in Dili, East Timor.
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The Minister for Defence, the Hon. Joel Fitzgibbon MP is piped aboard HMAS Glenelg during a visit to Dili, East Timor.
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The Minister for Defence, the Hon. Joel Fitzgibbon MP meets with the crew of HMAS Glenelg during a visit to Dili, East Timor.
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The Minister for Defence, the Hon. Joel Fitzgibbon MP enjoys a game of touch football with members of the International Stabilisation Force at Camp Phoenix, East Timor.
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The Minister for Defence, the Hon. Joel Fitzgibbon MP enjoys a game of touch football with members of the International Stabilisation Force at Camp Phoenix, East Timor.
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The Minister for Defence, the Hon. Joel Fitzgibbon MP and Chief of Defence Force, Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston talk with Officer Commanding Forward Operating Base Baucau, Major Sean Kearns, in East Timor.
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The Minister for Defence, the Hon. Joel Fitzgibbon MP and Chief of Defence Force, Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston talk with the troops at Forward Operating Base Baucau, East Timor.
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The Minister for Defence, the Hon. Joel Fitzgibbon MP has lunch with soldiers from the Heliport in Dili, East Timor.
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The Minister for Defence, the Hon. Joel Fitzgibbon MP meets with Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao at the Palazzio in Dili, East Timor.
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The Minister for Defence, the Hon. Joel Fitzgibbon MP meets with President Jose Ramos Horta in Dili, East Timor.
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The Chief of Defence Force, Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston meets with President Jose Ramos Horta in Dili, East Timor.
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