Australian Defense Chief Gen. David Hurley told a Senate committee that 63 women were either in frontline roles or training for them since gender barriers were lifted across the army, navy and air ...

Faced with a sex scandal in his ranks, the chief of Australia’s army delivered a blunt message to his troops: Treat your female comrades properly or “get out.” CNN values your feedback 1.

Australian Women’s Army Service paved the way for women to join the armed forces. ONE night in June 1940 about 10,000 women attended a meeting at Sydney Town Hall.

For 18-year-old Piper Harper, taking the oath was almost a decade in the making in her dream of following in her uncle's footsteps serving in the Australian Army. "He told me what to expect, what ...

Women's Royal Australian Army Corps (WRAAC) formed in place of AWAS. 1951. WRANS re-established. The Navy's first all-female flight crew was part of 816 Squadron at HMAS Albatross, pictured here ...

Oodgeroo Noonuccal (then known as Kathleen Walker) enlisted in the Australian Women’s Army Service in 1942. Oodgeroo (Dec. 1993) was a signaller in Brisbane. During this time, nearly 80,000 ...

Lee Hayward, Increasing the Number of Senior Women in the Australian Army, Security Challenges, Vol. 14, No. 2, Special Issue: Celebrating and Interrogating Women and National Security (2018), pp.

Nursing had traditionally been the only avenue for women to join the military. But the creation of women’s auxiliaries in the early 1940s created new opportunities for women.

Australian women went to war armed with a pen and a notepad. ... Macarthur then personally invited her to cover an air raid in Rabaul, which incensed Australian Army authorities, ...

The War Office regrets it cannot utilise the services of women doctors – Sydney Morning Herald, May 10, 1915. From the outbreak of the first world war until late 1916, military officialdom ...