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Australian Defence Force

One Tablet

One Tablet

He was young and excited, only four years into the military and heading into his first deployment. On 20 September 1999 he came ashore with Operation Stabilise, leaving Lavarack Barracks that morning as part of 2 RAR, pushing west to establish a base at Balibo.

Just an Army Wife — No One Protects Us from Domestic Violence

Just an Army Wife — No One Protects Us from Domestic Violence

People assume danger has a geography. They imagine it belongs to foreign soil, distant conflicts, places marked by checkpoints and camouflage. But the first war I survived did not happen overseas. It happened quietly, domestically, incrementally — inside a marriage sanctioned by the institution that insisted I was just an army

Domestic Violence Pattern Recognition (ADF Context)

Domestic Violence Pattern Recognition (ADF Context)

For years, I waited for someone in authority to ask what had happened to me. A commander. A case officer. A welfare representative. A government department. Anyone. I waited for the moment when the Australian Defence Force, or the agencies surrounding it, would look past the uniform and ask what

Left Behind

Left Behind

2,855 ADF personnel were given tafenoquine or mefloquine in Army Malaria Institute trials. Zero support programs exist for their spouses or children.

About This Series

About This Series

How this series uses evidence, who its primary sources are, what standing they hold, and where the record runs out. The methodology page for Unacknowledged Casualties.

Map showing East Timor and Bougainville, the ADF deployment locations for the quinoline antimalarial drug trials.

The Quinoline Era

1,540 Australian soldiers were given an unregistered antimalarial. 1,157 more got six times the approved mefloquine dose. No follow-up was ever done.