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Supporting the Australian Defence Force
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The Australia Defence Association (ADA) is not formally affiliated with the Australian Defence Force (ADF) or the Department of Defence but it strongly supports the need for a capable and balanced ADF. The ADA also understands that the country at large, and the Government in particular, have a responsibility to properly care for the families of ADF members, especially where defence force personnel are deployed away from their families in defence of all Australians.
Any contact with the ADA is on a strictly confidential basis between the individual concerned and the Association staff member handling the matter.
Send a Message to the ADF Overseas and the Families of Such ADF Members at Home
Australians and others wishing to send general messages of thanks and support to members of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) serving overseas in our common defence, or to their families in Australia, can use the following Department of Defence email links:
These are collective addresses and are not suitable for you to send messages to individual defence force personnel or their families. Some of your messages (without attribution) may also be reproduced in defence force newspapers.
Specific enquiries about welfare or administrative matters concerning the families of defence force members are generally best directed to the nearest office of the Defence Community Organisation (DCO) within the Department of Defence. Your area telephone directory should provide a local office-hours contact number.
Within the DCO, the National Welfare Co-ordination Centre (NWCC) provides a 24-hour point of contact for the families of defence force members deployed away from home on operations or major exercises. NWCC contacts are:
Since 1986 Defence Families of Australia (DFA), previously known as the National Consultative Group of Service Families, has worked to assist the families of defence force members and to provide a national forum to express their views. The DFA is sponsored by the Department of Defence and assists in advising Ministers, senior ADF officers and departmental officials of the effects on families of government and defence force policies. The DFA website may be found at www.dfa.org.au/index.php and the national office may be contacted on 1800-100-509.
ADF Personnel Matters
Please remember that the Australia Defence Association is the national public interest guardian body for defence and wider national security issues. The ADA is not the Australian Defence Force's professional representative body or "trade union". The Association does not generally become involved in personnel issues unless they are general rather than individual in their application, and are major matters of national importance affecting Australia's defence capabilities or strategic posture as a whole.
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