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Cost of caring for veterans climbs to $13 billion

A backlog of 60,000 unprocessed medical and compensation claims from veterans has been cleared – and has delivered a $13 billion hit to the budget.

  • Shane Wright

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Joanna and Ian Turner

Joanna alerted the army about her husband. The ADF ‘vilified’ her. He later took his own life

The Australian Defence Force failed the veteran and treated his widow “appallingly”, a coroner has found.

  • Ben Cubby and Patrick Begley
Igor (left) and Kira Korolev are charged with preparing to carry out an act of espionage.

Accused Russian spies may apply for bail as case held up by translations

Australian Army private Kira Korolev and her labourer husband Igor Korolev were arrested in July, accused of spying on Australia for Russia.

  • Savannah Meacham

Telling Israel the killing must stop in Gaza is not antisemitic

Israel had every right respond to Hamas, but some of its supporters ignore a critical constraint under international law.

  • Rodger Shanahan
Three soldiers are alleged to have been part of a cocaine trafficking ring.

Three Australian soldiers charged with drug trafficking offences

Investigators intercepted cash sent through the mail which the three men allegedly intended to use to purchase and resell cocaine at a profit.

  • Angus Dalton
Defence Minister Richard Marles and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announcing the government’s response to the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide.

Sex offenders to be booted from Defence Force in sweeping overhaul

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said it was time to act to combat an “epidemic” of suicide among former and current military personnel.

  • Matthew Knott and Alyssa Talakovski
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Minister for Defence Richard Marles.

Japanese troops in Top End sends clear message to China

Australia, the US and Japan have sent a defiant message to China by putting their increasingly close partnership on an alliance-style footing.

  • Matthew Knott
Dr John Miller, 94, was just 4 years old when his father and godfather planted the seedling of an elm that now stands grandly at the Shrine of Remembrance.

After watching his veteran father plant it 90 years ago, John returns to a great elm at the Shrine

Dr John Miller will be a guest of honour at the Shrine of Remembrance on Monday. He attended the inauguration of the Shrine on November 11, 1934.

  • Tony Wright
Victoria Barracks, in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, is one of the Defence sites that was scrutinised by the audit review.

Defence real estate sell-off put on ice

The Coalition and Greens leapt upon the delay to accuse the Albanese government of dithering when required to make tough decisions about the defence portfolio.

  • Matthew Knott
Albert Jacka.

‘Machine guns and men in trenches’: On the eve of battle, Albert Jacka made an awful discovery

In early 1917, as the Allies prepared to take Bullecourt on the Western Front, Jacka was sent into No-Man’s Land.

  • Peter FitzSimons

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