Letters to the Editor

The need to save the RAAC is both obvious and urgent.   1st Armoured Regiment has been stripped of its

Dear Editor, Veterans already have power. It is called a vote. The problem is not that veterans, families, carers, friends

Dear Editor, DVA is confusing repair with control. Veterans were told the system would be fixed after the Royal Commission

Dear Editor, Hastie versus One Nation is being sold as politics, but CONTACT readers should hear something louder. It puts

Although it’s a truism, it’s none-the-less worthy of emphasizing:  defending a land mass the size of Australia, means defending a

Dear Editor, Veterans should not have to guess which doctors the Department of Veterans’ Affairs will count. A recent veterans

The provision of close fire support by tanks, is a completely different undertaking to that of intelligence gathering by reconnaissance

Dear Editor, Albanese Labor’s veterans reform now has a date, a booklet and a ministerial storyline. From 1 July 2026,

If a Shakespearean tragedy had cast the RAAC as MacBeth, it couldn’t have been more appropriate.  The RAAC has recently

Dear Editor, This week Veterans Minister Matt Keogh was spinning veteran wellbeing to a Labor-friendly McKell Institute audience, with a

Lieutenant General Susan Coyle AM, CSC, DSM will soon be Chief of Army … will she resurrect 1 Armd Regt? The

The role of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps is to “locate, identify, capture, and destroy the enemy using fire, manoeuvre,

Dear Editor, AUKUS is being sold as sovereign capability, but sovereignty is not created by a slogan. Collins was difficult,

Stripping the tanks from 1st Armoured Regiment would have to be one of the most stupid decisions ever made by

Dear Editor, John Healey’s resignation as UK Defence Secretary should give Australians pause. AUKUS is often discussed in Canberra as

“Ukraine and Russia deploy drones for every tactical purpose imaginable: intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, artillery spotting, electronic warfare targeting, psychological operations, logistics

Will Lieutenant General Susan Coyle, the first woman to be Chief of Army, be the saviour of the Royal Australian Armoured

“Our attack was timed to start at 12.30am on 23 July 1916.  Three shrill blasts on a whistle, was the

Dear Editor, Many eminent writers have expressed their individual and collective concerns about Army decisions concerning significant change to Armoured