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The Twenty-Year Review into of the Office of the IGADF
A Submission by the Australian Special Air Services Association General The IGADF, Secretary of the Department of Defence and Chief of...

Hon Martin Hamilton-Smith
Dec 20, 20232 min read


‘Put up or shut up’ - War crimes investigators under fire
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Media Team
Nov 8, 20231 min read


Chairmans’ ReportAustralian Special Air Service Association 2023 AGM
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
Nov 4, 202316 min read


Media Statement - 1 June 2023
Media Statement 1 June 2023 Australian Special Air Service Association Ben Roberts-Smith VC MG Judgement The ASASA welcomes Hon Anthony...

Hon Martin Hamilton-Smith
Jul 1, 20231 min read


Media Statement - 1 June 2023
Australian Special Air Service Association Ben Roberts-Smith VC MG Judgement The ASASA welcomes Hon Anthony Besanko’s judgement today....

Hon Martin Hamilton-Smith
Jun 1, 20231 min read


MEDIA RELEASE
Veterans Condemn CDF Proposal to Strip Soldiers of Distinguished Service Medals awarded in the Afghanistan War (Embargoed until Wednesday...

Hon Martin Hamilton-Smith
May 24, 20233 min read


Veterans Condemn CDF Proposal to Strip Soldiers of Distinguished Service
Media Release Veterans Condemn CDF Proposal to Strip Soldiers of Distinguished Service Medals awarded in the Afghanistan War (Embargoed...

Hon Martin Hamilton-Smith
May 24, 20235 min read


Chairmans’ Report ASASA 2022 AGM
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

Hon Martin Hamilton-Smith
Aug 19, 202218 min read


ASASA NATIONAL CHAIRMAN’S REPORT 2021
"Challenges are what make life interesting overcoming them is what makes life meaningful" - Joshua J Marine The challenges have come...

PETER FITZPATRICK AO, AM (Mil,) JP
Nov 12, 202119 min read
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