Category: Blogs
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Speech on Military Spouse Employment
At our Annual National Conference dinner, we invited Amanda McCue to speak about her research with the Churchill Fellowship Trust on Military Spouse Employment. Amanda travelled to the UK, US and Canada to research what our allies were doing in this space. ADF Partner Employment has been our main advocacy focus this year and we are […]
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DCO Community Coordinator Training
Our South Australian National Delegate Victoria has written a blog post about her experience at the recent Community Centre training she attended in Canberra. We were invited to attend the Defence Community Organisation (DCO), Coordinator training during July. This training saw 37 Community Centre Coordinators, DCO Family Liaison Officers and DFA Delegates come together in […]
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Who let the dogs out?
Defence families who have pets in their lives will know that despite the accidents on the carpet (sorry DHA), holes in the lawn (again, sorry), finding someone to care for them when you’re away and the ongoing cost of the pet food, that having a small (or large), fluffy (or scaly) friend in your life […]
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Positions available
Are you a Defence partner based in Brisbane, Adelaide or Perth? Are you posting there in 2019? We are looking for three new National Delegates. One for South Australia (Adelaide based), one for Western Australia (Perth based) and one for Southern Queenslsnd (Brisbane based). National Delegates are the heart and soul of DFA’s advocacy work […]
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Choosing schools in your new location
THIS POST HAS RECENTLY BEEN UPDATED TO REFLECT CHANGE IN TERMINOLOGY Denisa, our National Delegate in the Northern Territory, has been researching schools for her own children. She’s written a blog post based on her own experience and discussions with other Defence families. Denisa, second from right at a welcome event in Darwin earlier in the year. […]
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ADF Family Health Program
A part of the DFA charter states that DFA informs Defence Families. Through this blog and via our social media channels we want to keep bringing to you information posts that will support families and assist in navigating Defence life. With special thanks to Joint Health Command for providing us with the guest blog post. Defence has your family covered […]
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Talking to a Chaplain
When you need support as a Defence family it’s good to know who you can talk to. Victoria, Our National Delegate in Western Australia spoke with Navy Chaplain Kelvin Harris from HMAS Sterling about his role as a Chaplain and how he supports Defence families. Why did you get into chaplaincy in the ADF? I joined the RAN […]
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LinkedIn…what’s all the fuss about?
Last week we launched our Partner Employment initative and added several links to companies who are all ADF Partner friendly employers and are also involved with the Prime Minister’s Veterans Employment Program. Thales is one of those employers. We recently asked Katherine Mitchell, Director, Resourcing at Thales for some tips about LinkedIn for Defence partners. Here’s her response. (Thanks Katherine!) As a career […]
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Partner Employment Initiatives
Today DFA added some very exciting new pages about partner employment to our website. We are passionate about the importance of our Defence partners gaining and maintaining meaningful employment as they encounter some of the challenges of this Defence life, such as moving. Based on the research we have done so far on this issue and programs […]
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We speak with a Defence School Transition Aide
For Defence Families with children, one of the decisions to be made on arriving in a new location is where to send children to school. Around Australia eligible schools with Defence students have the Defence School Transition Aide (DSTA) (Primary School) and the Defence Transition Mentor (DTM) (High School) programs available. The Defence School Transition Aide […]