The Australian Defence Force Academy ( ADFA ) and the Royal Military College, Duntroon ( RMC ) are in the suburb of Campbell in Canberra's inner northeast.

Defence is the responsibility of Australia, and the territory is visited regularly by the Royal Australian Navy.

The Australian Defence Force issues soldiers two tags of different shapes: Number 1 Tag ( the octagonal shaped disc ) and Number 2 Tag ( the circular disc ).

* Australian Defence Satellite Communications Station ( Geraldton, Western Australia )

The Governor-General is President of the Federal Executive Council and Commander-in-Chief of the Australian Defence Force.

* 1901 – Sir James Dickson, Premier of Queensland, Australian Minister for Defence ( b. 1832 )

* Australian Defence Force Academy

The Defence Act of 1903 granted the Australian federal government the powers to conscript men of military age for home defense.

Two more Australian personnel were seconded as advisers on logistics and personnel matters in August 2006, while an Australian bureaucrat from the Department of Defence is posted to the PNG defence department.

:: that is engaged in armed hostilities against the Australian Defence Force ; or

* Aspects of thermobaric weaponry ( PDF ) – Dr. Anna E Wildegger-Gaissmaier, Australian Defence Force Health

* January 10 – Sir James Dickson, Premier of Queensland, Australian Minister for Defence ( born 1832

Soon after The Australian Financial Review published a more in-depth piece on the Australian Intelligence Community ( ASIO, ASIS, the Joint Intelligence Organisation ( JIO ) the Defence Intelligence Organisation ( DIO ), the Defence Signals Division ( DSD ) the Defence Signals Directorate and the Office of National Assessments ( ONA )).

Defence Signals Directorate ( DSD ) is an Australian government intelligence agency responsible for signals intelligence ( SIGINT ) and information security ( INFOSEC ).

* to provide information security products and services to the Australian Government and its Defence Force.

Electronic warfare operators in the Royal Australian Corps of Signals work closely with the Defence Signals Directorate.

The DSD operates at least two receiving stations: the Australian Defence Satellite Communications Station ( ADSCS ), located at Kojarena, near Geraldton in Western Australia, and the Shoal Bay Receiving Station, located at Shoal Bay, Northern Territory.

* Australian Defence College, located at Weston Creek in Canberra

The Australian Army's officer corps are trained at the Royal Military College, Duntroon and the Australian Defence Force Academy is also located in the capital.

Following a burglary, a murder, and two attempted murders in Adelaide during March 1838, Governor Hindmarsh created the South Australian Police Force ( now named South Australia Police ) in April 1838 under 21-year-old Henry Inman.

* 1925 – Anthony Mason, Australian judge and Air Force Officer, Chief Justice of Australia

Royal Australian Air Force | RAAF General Dynamics F-111 | F-111 performing a Fuel dumping # Dump-and-burn | dump-and-burn Fuel dumping | fuel dump at the Australian International Airshow

* Royal Australian Air Force

Category: Royal Australian Air Force guided missiles

With most of the strategic reserve sent to the Western Front, an Egyptian Expeditionary Force of two British infantry and one Australian and New Zealand mounted division in Eastern Force, successfully defend the Suez Canal and Romani in 1916 from German and Ottoman incursions.

The governor also traditionally serves as Honorary and Regimental Colonel in the Royal New South Wales Regiment and as Honorary Air Commodore of No. 22 ( City of Sydney ) Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force.

In May 1940, without resigning his seat, Holt joined the Second Australian Imperial Force as a gunner, but a few months later three Cabinet ministers and several of Australia's top military staff were killed in an air crash in Canberra.

Within a short time the beach and the water off shore were being searched by a large contingent of police, Royal Australian Navy divers, Royal Australian Air Force helicopters, Army personnel from nearby Point Nepean and local volunteers.

Brabham was a Royal Australian Air Force flight mechanic and ran a small engineering workshop before he started racing midget cars in 1948.

One month after his 18th birthday on 19 May 1944 Brabham enlisted into the Royal Australian Air Force ( RAAF ).

* 1921 – The Royal Australian Air Force is formed.

The operation was carried out by elements of the United States 10th Mountain Division, 101st Airborne Division, the U. S. special forces groups TF 11, TF Bowie, and TF Dagger, British Royal Marines, the Norwegian Forsvarets Spesialkommando ( FSK ), Hærens Jegerkommando and Marinejegerkommandoen, Canada's 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, Canada's Joint Task Force 2, the Afghan National Army, the German KSK, and elements of the Australian Special Air Service Regiment and of the New Zealand Special Air Service.

The militia, worn out and severely depleted by casualties, were relieved in late August by regular troops from the Second Australian Imperial Force, returning from action in the Mediterranean theater.

In early September 1942 Japanese marines attacked a strategic Royal Australian Air Force base at Milne Bay, near the eastern tip of Papua.

The Supreme Commander of operations was the United States General Douglas Macarthur, with Australian General Thomas Blamey taking a direct role in planning and operations being essentially directed by staff at New Guinea Force headquarters in Port Moresby.

Askin enlisted as a Private in the Second Australian Imperial Force on 30 March 1942.

The USAF, USMC, US Army, US Navy, and FAA as well as a number of international ATC training organizations such as the Royal Australian Air Force and Civil Aviation Authorities in Italy, Brazil, and Canada are currently using ATC simulators with speech recognition from a number of different vendors.

Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.

The Australian aborigine is the conventional exemplar of degraded humanity ; ;

And Secretary Rusk, en route to Bangkok, doubtless is trying to make emergency arrangements for the possible entry of Australian or Thai SEATO forces.

A fourth match was played, against a " United Australian XI ", which was arguably stronger than the Australian sides that had competed in the previous three matches ; this game, however, is not generally considered part of the 1882 – 83 series.

One is playing cricket ; the other is making no attempt to do so " after the latter had come into the Australian rooms to express sympathy for a Larwood bouncer had struck the Australian skipper in the heart and felled him.

The Australian Labor Party ( also ALP and Labor, was Labour before 1912 ) is a social-democratic political party in Australia.

The ALP was founded as a federal party prior to the first sitting of the Australian Parliament in 1901, but is descended from Labour parties founded in the various Australian colonies by the emerging labour movement in Australia, formally beginning in 1891.

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Although English has no official status in the Constitution, Australian English is Australia's de facto official language and is the first language of the majority of the population.

The primary way in which Australian English is distinctive from other varieties of English is through its unique pronunciation.

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The Australian Democrats is an Australian political party espousing a socially liberal ideology.