The Morrison Government has taken steps to strengthen the Australian Army’s helicopter capability by formally requesting advice from the United States Government on the acquisition of up to 40 UH-60 Black Hawk to potentially replace the MRH90 Taipan helicopter.
Four F-35A Lightning II aircraft have touched down at RAAF Base Tindal after the base was certified ready for F-35A operations. The F-35A, which will be permanently based in the Northern Territory has replaced the F/A-18A/B Classic Hornet that was operated by No. 75 Squadron for 33 years.
A group of 31 Australian small-to-medium sized businesses has successfully trialled a prototype mobile tactical communications system for the Australian Army.
Joint media release: Liberal Patron Senator for the Hunter Region, Senator Hollie Hughes The Morrison Government has awarded a leading engineering company a $164.9 million contract to deliver major airfield works at RAAF Base Williamtown and Newcastle Airport.
Australia’s defence industry will deliver an extra $140 million in maintenance and supply-chain support for the Royal Australian Air Force’s fifth-generation F-35A Lightning II fighter.
Today, 294 of the Australian Defence Force’s newest officers graduated from the Australian Defence Force Academy. Navy, Army and Air Force trainee officers took to the ADFA Parade Ground for the final time to mark the culmination of their three years at the Academy.
Five Australian small businesses are sharing in more than $1.1 million in Morrison Government grant funding to boost their export capability.
The annual Defence Employer Support Awards has recognised leading employers across Australia for their contribution and support to Australian Defence Force (ADF) reservists.
Minister for Defence Industry Melissa Price has today launched a new organisation that will operate as the ‘one-stop shop’ for small and medium enterprises doing business with Defence.
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The signing of the Exchange of Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information Agreement (the Agreement) with our AUKUS partners – the United Kingdom and the United States – is another important step in Australia’s pursuit of conventionally armed, nuclear-powered submarines.
Eighty years after the Australian warship HMAS Sydney (II) sunk off the West Australian coast, the only body recovered from the tragedy has now been identified. New DNA evidence has confirmed Able Seaman (AB) Thomas Welsby Clark from New Farm in Brisbane as the previously unidentified sailor.
The Assistant Minister for Defence, the Hon Andrew Hastie MP, has congratulated the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) and the Australian National University (ANU) on the opening of the Co-Lab Honours grant, fusing cutting-edge research with capability.
The Morrison Government is investing $10 million in innovative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies that will strengthen Defence’s military capability and support highly skilled jobs in Australia’s defence industry.
Joint media release: Senator The Hon Marise Payne, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Minister for Women
Joint media release Minister for Defence Industry, the Hon Melissa Price MP The newest vessel in the Royal Australian Navy Fleet was commissioned today at Fleet Base West, Western Australia.
Joint media release Minister for Defence, the Hon Peter Dutton The newest vessel in the Royal Australian Navy Fleet was commissioned today at Fleet Base West, Western Australia.
Joint media release: Federal Member for Riverina, the Hon Michael McCormack MP Kapooka, the ‘home of the soldier’, today celebrates 70 years of training Australian soldiers to be among the best in the world.
Australia will continue to provide airlift for Vietnam’s peacekeepers serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) in 2022. Minister for Defence, the Hon Peter Dutton MP made this commitment in discussions earlier this week with his Vietnamese counterpart, Minister of National Defence, General Phan Van Giang.
This Remembrance Day, Australians will again, in our respected tradition, observe one minute’s silence at the eleventh hour. We will pause to honour those who served, suffered and died in war and armed conflict.
The body of a Victorian soldier, killed in action during the First World War, has been identified in an unnamed grave in France, more than a century after his death.
Defence Ministers from Australia and Southeast Asia have come together virtually for the ASEAN-Australia Informal Defence Ministers’ Meeting. Minister for Defence, the Hon Peter Dutton MP, said he was pleased to reaffirm Australia’s commitment to ASEAN.
‘One sits and ponders sadly of those many pals who are “gone to that home from which no wanderer returns.” … The very flower of our manhood have paid the greatest price, not willingly for not one of them but longed to live, return home and forget, yes just forget the horrors of the past … Please God … the sacrifices have not been in vain.’
The Royal Australian Navy and United States Navy elements have successfully concluded Exercise Dugong 2021 in Western Australia today.
In the lead-up to Black Friday and festive season sales, Australians must be alert to the cybercriminals seeking to steal your Christmas joy and your money.
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