Enquiries to the Australia Defence Association (ADA)

Thank you for your enquiry to the Australia Defence Association (ADA). Vibrant, informed and objective public debate is essential for Australia's defence.

We will make every attempt to answer your enquiry if it is genuine, coherent, understandable and politely expressed. We cannot reply to you if your enquiry is in any way anonymous, abusive, illegal, unduly subjective or otherwise unreasonably deficient in contributing to informed public debate.

Commonly asked questions about the ADA are answered on our Frequently Asked Questions page.

This enquiries page provides the link for you to seek general information from the ADA. It is not the link for you to provide us with feedback concerning ADA comment in our publications, the general media, parliamentary submissions or other public fora. If you mistakenly send your feedback to the enquiries link below it will be sorted as spam and remain undelivered. Your feedback should instead be directed to ADA Feedback.

Minimum requirements for your enquiry

Because of occasional mischievous, dishonest and crank enquiries your email to the ADA will be automatically filtered out as spam and remain undelivered unless you:

fill in the subject line of your email with a specific, intelligible and relevant entry that assists us in directing it to the best person to answer you;
have the courtesy and integrity to identify yourself appropriately, as we do in our public comment and on this website, by providing as a minimum your first name and family name, your telephone number, your postal address and your email address so we can have a proper discussion by the most effective means (and not necessarily just by delayed, time-consuming and subject-limiting email exchanges);
state your enquiry clearly, succinctly and politely;
ensure that your comments are not offensive, illegal, repetitious or meaningless; and
include enough information and context to enable us to provide you with a viable answer.

Please note again that your email will not be delivered if you fail to identify yourself appropriately as requested in the second sub-bullet point above. An alleged name, nickname and/or your email address alone are not sufficient identification to prove your bonafides, especially if you are using a web-based email provider.

Address for your enquiries

Our postal address for enquiries is: Australia Defence Association, PO Box 320, Erindale Centre, ACT, 2903, Australia
Your email enquiries can be forwarded to ADA Enquiries.

To preserve its independence and ensure transparency the corporate administrative structure of the
Australia Defence Association is organised as a not-for-profit public company (ABN 16 083 007 390)
limited by guarantee under the Corporations Act 2001