* 1966 – Vietnam War: the Battle of Long Tan ensues after a patrol from the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment clashes with a Viet Cong force in Phuoc Tuy province.

The wigs at The Australian Museum were later confused with some brought out of the Highlands 10 years afterwards by Jim Taylor during his Hagen – Sepik patrol, and wrongly attributed to him when put on display.

Traffic / highway patrol vehicle of the Australian Capital Territory Police | ACT Police.

As part of this program, two Royal Australian Navy advisers are statiomed in Vanuatu Australia to assist Vanuatu in maintaining and operating the RVS Tukoro, the Pacific class patrol boat donated to Vanuatu by Australia in 1987.

An Australian SAS patrol during Operation Coburg, South Vietnam 1968.

In line with this change, the SASR took the lead in developing the Australian Army's capability to conduct patrol operations in Northern Australia.

The initial Australian force consisted of ; three Royal Australian Navy ships, 500 special forces soldiers, P-3 Orion maritime patrol aircraft, C-130 Hercules transport aircraft and No. 75 Squadron RAAF ( which included 14 F / A-18 Hornet fighters ).

Australian made Ford Falcons and Holden Commodores dominate the ranks of taxis in Australia and New Zealand, and are also used as police patrol cars.

Special forces operations were undertaken by the British Special Air Service, Special Boat Sections, Guards Independent Parachute Company, Gurkha Independent Parachute Company, patrol companies of the Parachute Regiment ( C Company 2nd and D Company 3rd Battalions ), the Australian Special Air Service Regiment and the New Zealand Rangers.

The Australian Light Horsemen, the New Zealand mounted riflemen, of the Anzac Mounted Division ( Australian and New Zealand Mounted Division ) with the Imperial Camel Corps Brigade, the 5th Mounted Yeomanry Brigade and a light car patrol, successfully assaulted El Magruntein, during a day-long attack in which the Ottoman position was encircled and finally captured in the late afternoon.

The weather cleared up on 5 January and an Australian patrol of the No. 1 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, observed 2, 000 or 3, 000 Ottoman soldiers digging defences south of Rafa in the area of El Magruntein.

* Attack class patrol boat ( Royal Australian Navy )-1967 to 1985

* Fremantle class patrol boat ( Royal Australian Navy )-1979 to 2007

* Armidale class patrol boat ( Royal Australian Navy )-2005 to present

Australian Operation Astute | ISF-soldiers on patrol in Dili

* HMAS Attack ( P 90 ), the lead ship of the Attack class patrol boats of the Royal Australian Navy

* was an Attack-class patrol vessel of the Royal Australian Navy launched in 1967 and sold to Indonesia in 1974, being renamed Siliman.

The six to eight-man Viet Cong squad initially contacted by 11 Platoon was likely a standing patrol moving into position ahead of the force, and may have been the first warning they received of the Australian presence.

* HMQS Otter, a patrol and examination vessel of the Queensland Maritime Defence Force, and later the Royal Australian Navy

* HMAS Childers, a patrol boat of the Australian Navy

In the early hours of 22 December 2004, Australian Protective Service Officer Adam Dunning was ambushed and killed while on a routine vehicle patrol with another officer in Honiara.

The real U-571 was never involved in any such events, was not captured, and was in fact sunk in January 1944, off Ireland, by a Short Sunderland flying boat from No. 461 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force.

She was hit by depth charges, dropped from a Short Sunderland Mk III flying boat, EK577, callsign " D for Dog ", belonging to No. 461 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force ( RAAF ).

Aboriginal Australians are believed to have first arrived on the Australian mainland by boat from the Indonesian archipelago between 40, 000 to 60, 000 years ago.

The ancestors of Australian Aborigines and New Guineans also went across the Lombok Strait to Sahul by boat over 50, 000 years ago.

* Turtle Beach, 1992 Australian film about raising awareness for the plight of the boat people

In mid-2001 Labor was well ahead in the opinion polls and seemed set to win the election due at the end of the year, but in August the Tampa affair occurred when the Howard government refused to allow the MV Tampa, a Norwegian freighter, to set down on Australian soil at Christmas Island several hundred asylum seekers whom the crew had rescued from an unseaworthy boat in international waters.

While this was going on, the right detachment under Keyes, having found itself on the wrong side of the river, made contact with an Australian battalion to the south which brought up a boat with which they could make a crossing.

He was the first to circumnavigate the Australian continent in a open boat.

After 21 months free in Van Diemen's Land, Brady and his gang captured a boat, intending to sail it to the Australian mainland.

*, a River class torpedo boat destroyer commissioned into the Australian Commonwealth Naval Forces in 1910, transferred to the RAN on its foundation in 1911, operated until 1929, and scuttled

* Fob, Australian slang coming from " fresh off boat ", used in general for new immigrants and often for a person who does not have a good command of the English language.

* In 2000, Hayden's boat capsized whilst sailing near North Stradbroke Island ; he and his two companions ( one of whom was Queensland and Australian teammate Andrew Symonds ) were forced to swim a kilometre to safety.

* June 4 – 21 – Led by the American zoologist and philanthropist Richard Archbold and carrying Australian Patrick Gordon Taylor as navigator, the PBY-2 Catalina flying boat Guba II makes the first flight across the Indian Ocean in history, flying from Port Hedland, Australia, to Mombasa, Kenya, via Batavia, Java ; the Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands ; Diego Garcia ; and the Seychelles.

The torpedo boat destroyer was the first naval ship launched at Cockatoo Island, after being built in the United Kingdom, disassembled, then sent to the Australian shipyard for reassembly.

Strahan is the base for boat trips to Sarah Island, the notorious penal settlement that garnered the reputation as the harshest penal settlement in the Australian colonies, and the lower Gordon River.

The main tasks of Lark Force were protection of the Royal Australian Air Force ( RAAF ) airfield and flying boat anchorage, which were important in the surveillance of Japanese movements in the region.

Although reports indicated that the strain of being towed was the proximate cause of the asylum seeker boat eventually sinking, in 2007, Australian Prime Minister John Howard asserted that the asylum seekers " irresponsibly sank the damn boat, which put their children in the water ".

Problems began on the boat journey over, with disputes developing about aspects of the trip and a rift developed between tour manager and coach, Mr Mair, an Australian and seven forwards.

Two of the submarines, U-462, a Type XIV, and U-504, a Type IX / C40, were then sunk by Walker's group, and the second Type XIV, U-461, by Australian Short Sunderland flying boat.

The Australian Special Air Service Regiment ( SASR ) also provided in-depth operational intelligence, and Signalman Martin " Jock " Wallace of 152 Signals Squadron was awarded the Medal for Gallantry for his actions during the fighting.

It carries iron ore slurry from the Savage River open cut mine owned by Australian Bulk Minerals and is still operational as of 2011.

He was sent to Sydney, Australia for rehabilitation, where he met Australian ace Clive " Killer " Caldwell and delivered some lectures on operational flying to RAF pilots, newly assigned to the theater.

Commonwealth personnel under RAF operational control were pooled for operational practicality and many RNZAF airmen also served with Royal Australian Air Force or Royal Canadian Air Force Article XV squadrons.

Casey is significant as a transport hub for the Australian Antarctic program, with the introduction of intercontinental jet flights for scientists and operational staff from Hobart to the Wilkins ice runway, 65 km inland from Casey station.

Australian contributions at the time were widely quoted owing to the lack of official operational news from other participants.

In 1988, the Australian Government formed the Federal Airports Corporation ( FAC ), placing Melbourne Airport under the operational control of the new corporation along with 21 other airports around the nation.

The Japanese and Australian stations became operational several years later.

Ipswich is the site of RAAF Base Amberley, the Royal Australian Air Force's largest operational base.

South Australian Police revealed the operational success of " Smartlock ", by inviting four professional car thieves to steal an EB specified with the locking system.

The immediate operational commander was Australian Lieutenant-General Thomas Blamey with his I Australian Corps headquarters, which was briefly renamed Anzac Corps.

Fairey Engineering had the sales agency for all countries outside the US, and was also been appointed by the Australian Department of Supply's to assist in the introduction of the Malkara to operational service and to design and produce modifications.

** For meritorious operational service in the Northern Arabian Gulf during Operation Catalyst from 1 November 2005 to 25 March 2006 while conducting maritime security operations in support of the Australian Government's contribution to the rehabilitation and rebuilding of Iraq.

The Duke of Edinburgh holds the ceremonial rank of a Marshal of the Royal Air Force, as well as the honorary ranks of Marshal of the Royal Australian Air Force and Marshal of the Royal New Zealand Air Force ; owing to their smaller size, however, neither of the latter two air forces have ever used the rank in an operational capacity.

Meanwhile, 1 RAR's attachment to US forces had highlighted a number of differences between Australian and American military philosophy and operational methods.

This would allow 1 ATF greater freedom of action and the chance to demonstrate the Australian Army's operational concept for counter-insurgency warfare.

The largest Australian formation deployed since the Second World War, although many of 1 ATF's officers and non-commissioned officers had extensive operational service, it had been hastily assembled and included many untried National Servicemen.

With such losses representing the operational strength of approximately two battalions, Australian intelligence later assessed that the Viet Cong 275th Regiment, which had borne the brunt of the fighting, would not be capable of mounting a regimental-sized operation for several months after the battle.

By December 1966 some Australian officers had begun to reassess their operational aims.

The only mine to remain operational was a large mine with its own crushing plant. During World War II, the Australian Army set up 55th Australian Camp Hospital near Tennant Creek.

This latter designation was an internal planning and operational tool used by the Australian authorities to deter people smuggling.