The Honourable Matt Keogh MP, Minister for Defence People and Veterans’ Affairs, Ministers and Members of the Australian state and federal parliaments, your Excellences, Chief of Defence Admiral Mark ...

Distinguished guests, friends and colleagues. It now falls to me to close the Chief of Army Symposium for 2026. I would like to start in the most important place … with gratitude and thanks. First, ...

Australian Defence Force (ADF) helicopters and personnel will conduct aviation training throughout the Greater Sydney region and New South Wales in February and March 2026. The training will be ...

Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel will conduct explosive live-fire training activities at Puckapunyal Military Area, Victoria, over the period 27 July to 31 July 2026. The training will involve ...

One need only glance at Aleppo, Mariupol, Mosul or Marawi to conclude that Thomas Hobbes’s state of nature … a life that is ‘solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short’ … remains the reality for many ...

Let me begin by saying how wonderful it is to be back on the land of the Kaurna people, and I pay my respect to their elders past, present and emerging. And because our Army has a long and very proud ...

We gather here today in what are widely agreed to be the most uncertain times in several generations. The ‘end of history’ has proven to be little more than a holiday, as once again we find ourselves ...

Australian Army soldiers from 17th Sustainment Brigade will be training in an advanced watercraft exercise, operating Lighter Amphibious Resupply Cargo 5 Ton (LARC V) and F470 Zodiac small boats, at ...

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Good morning. Welcome to the Great Hall of Parliament House, the home of Australian democracy, and the warmest of welcomes to the Chief of Army’s Symposium 2025. It is a great privilege to be with you ...

Elders of the Gapuwiyak and Baniyala communities. Elders and communities of Arnhem Land, especially those along the route which we travelled to be here this morning. The Honourable Natasha Fyles, ...

The Australian Defence Force is conducting training activities within the confines of the Wide Bay Training Area from 23 th Feb to 29 th Mar 2025. This may generate noise. These activities may occur ...