Report on the visit of the Defence Sub-committee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade to North Queensland and the Torres Strait, August 1991 / the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia
- Bib ID:
- 1509710
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Australia. Parliament. Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade. Defence Sub-Committee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- Canberra : Australian Govt. Pub. Service, c1992
- viii, 26 pages ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0644242825 (paperback)
- Series:
- Parliamentary paper (Australia. Parliament) ; 1991, no. 390.
- Summary:
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Report of a visit by the Defence Sub-committee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade to North Queensland and the Torres Strait. The aim of the tour was to enhance Members' appreciation of: (a) the operation of an Army reserve formation in our northern region; (b) a regular force which is held on a high degree of operational readiness to meet contingencies which might arise wih little or no warning; and (c) other units of the Australian Defence Force in the North Queensland region.
- Full contents:
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- Townsville
- 11 Brigade
- Area of operations
- Training
- Exercise Kangaroo 89
- Operational readiness
- Equipment
- Resources
- 31 Battalion Royal Queensland Regiment
- 3 Brigade
- Training
- Facilities
- 1 Battalion Royal Australian Regiment
- Exercise Puk Puk
- RAAF Townsville
- 5 Aviation Regiment
- Capability
- Operational Support Group
- Cairns
- HMAS Cairns
- Patrol boat Fleet
- Other roles
- Future expansion of the Base
- Vulnerability to cyclones
- Royal Australian Naval Reserve (RANR)
- 51 Battalion The Far North Queensland Regiment
- Australian Customs Service Cairns
- Surveillance of the Torres Strait
- Coastwatch
- Thursday Island
- C Coy FNQR Depot
- Royal Australian Naval Reserve (RANR)
- Meeting with Mr Getano Lui (Jnr)
- Torres Strait
- Meeting with Mr Donald Banu, Boigu Island
- Meeting with Mr Terry Waia, Saibai Island
- Yorke Island
- Bamaga
- Weipa
- Comalco
- B Coy 51 FNQR Depot
- RAAF Scherger.
- Notes:
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- Chairman: C. Schacht.
- Also published as Parliamentary Paper no. 390/1991.
- Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1827339269
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Schacht, Chris, 1946-
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- Commonwealth of Australia 1992.
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