International

United States Marine Corps and United States Army High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems perform a live firing drill at Plains Airfield during Exercise Talisman Sabre.

Army Talisman Sabre

Talisman Sabre starts with a bang

This year’s Exercise Talisman Sabre started off with a bang, as US Marine Corps and US Army High Mobility Artillery Rocket

Musician Natalie Gray dances with children during a performance at the Vaiala Congregational Christian Church of Samoa.

Defence Pacific engagement

High note in Pacific friendship

The Australian Defence Force has completed a key engagement activity in Samoa as part of its ongoing commitment to deepen relationships in the region.

Outgoing Commander Joint Task Force 633 Air Vice-Marshal Joe Iervasi, right, promotes Commodore Mark Hill to the rank of Rear Admiral at the Transfer of Authority parade at Australia's main operating base in the Middle East.

Defence Middle East

Change of command in the Middle East

Commander Joint Task Force 633 Air Vice-Marshal Joe Iervasi has handed over command of Australian Defence Force operations in the Middle East region.

Chief of Staff, Joint Operations Command and Head of Corps, Royal Australian Engineers Brigadier John Carey, left accepts the Netherlands Resistance Memorial Cross posthumously awarded to Australian engineer Lieutenant John Leslie Appleby.

Army

Posthumous honour for prisoner of war

An engineer officer who was executed by the Japanese in World War II was posthumously presented the Resistance Memorial Cross by the Netherlands...

Australian Army Reservists doctor Lieutenant Colonel Mark Little, left, and pharmacist Lieutenant David Benson, are deployed with Task Group Taji-8, outside the Taji Medical Treatment Facility, Iraq.

Army Operation Okra

Cairns medics' unlikely reunion in Iraq

Taji Military Complex, 20 kilometres north of Baghdad, Iraq, is the last place you’d expect to run into someone you know from your home town.

2019 Australian of the Year Craig Challen with Associate Secretary Rebecca Skinner and Vice Chief of the Defence Force Vice Admiral David Johnston at Russell Offices, Canberra.

Defence International engagement

Perils of Thai cave rescue revealed

Defence personnel in Canberra were treated to a fascinating speech by Australian of the Year Craig Challen about extricating 12 boys and their soccer...

Surgeon General of the Australian Defence Force Air Vice-Marshal Tracy Smart speaking at the summit.

Defence International engagement

Summit focuses on threats to human health

Surgeon General of the Australian Defence Force Air Vice-Marshal Tracy Smart said Defence’s health engagement activities with the Pacific region were...

Royal Australian Air Force loadmaster Corporal Georgia Harper, of No. 36 Squadron, loads search-and-rescue equipment on to a C-17A Globemaster before it departs RAAF Base Amberley to participate in Exercise Shaken Fury in the United States.

Air Force Exercises

Exercise a big lift for Defence task force

A lift from a RAAF C-17A Globemaster allowed an Australian urban search and rescue task force to exercise with international peers.

New Zealand and Australian Defence Force personnel, deployed to Task Group Taji 8, perform the haka during a welcoming ceremony for newly arrived NZDF members at the Taji Military Complex, Iraq.

Army Operation Okra

Fierce welcome for new arrivals

Thirty-five New Zealand Defence Force personnel, who arrived at the Taji Military Complex, were confronted with a fierce welcome ceremony.

A Japan Ground Self-Defense Force soldier inspects the chamber of a FH-70 howitzer during a live-fire serial as part of Exercise Southern Jackaroo at Shoalwater Bay, Queensland.

Army

Australian-Japanese relationship goes great lengths

A first for the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) took place on Australian soil, with the firing of an FH-70 howitzer out to 25 kilometres at...

Air Commodore Richard Owen and HMAS Canberra's commanding officer Captain Ashley Papp promote Ordinary Seamanship Ulani Wratt to the rank of Able Seamaon on board HMAS Canberra during Indo-Pacific Endeavour 2019. Photo: Leading Seaman Kylie Jagiello

Navy Indo-Pacific Endeavour 2019

Fond memories of Canberra as NZ sailors return home

A small contingent of Royal New Zealand Navy officers and sailors returned home after spending almost three months deployed in HMAS Canberra.

HMAS Ballarat's Boarding Party boards a suspicious vessel resulting in the seizure of suspected narcotics. Photo: Leading Seaman Bradley Darvill

Navy Operation Manitou

More than $1 billion of narcotics seized by HMAS Ballarat

Ballarat has stopped illegal narcotics in excess of AUD$1 billion from funding terrorism and other illegal activity.