The ASASA has just completed one of its busiest and most successful years. State Branches are flourishing.

In 1987, fifteen years after Australia’s war in Vietnam ended, we held Welcome Home parades across the nation for our mistreated Veterans.

Hon Martin Hamilton-Smith Canberra 14th November 2023 “It is always a terrible decision, the launching of magnificent men towards death....... each one priceless” - Brigadier ‘Pompey’ Elliot General For SAS veterans the past year has been dominated by challenges involving war crime allegations during the Afghanistan war, the Royal Commission into Defence and Veterans Suicide (RCDVS) and reform to the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) designed to reduce the backlog of claim

Hon Martin Hamilton-Smith Swanbourne 19th August 2022 “The soldier above all others prays for peace. For it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war” - Douglass MacArthur General 2021-2022 has been an eventful year for SASR and the Association. Challenges have included rapidly changing strategic circumstances which have refocussed the attention of the nation and the ADF, Covid -19 with all its frustrations, matters arising from IGADF Brereto

"Challenges are what make life interesting overcoming them is what makes life meaningful" - Joshua J Marine The challenges have come...