What happens to critical assets on decommissioning?

HMAS

The HMAS Melbourne (III) was decommissioned on Saturday 26th October, berthing at Garden Island, Sydney, for the last time. It was a poignant ceremony, especially for the two-hundred men and women who served aboard the ship.

The ship has over two decades of service to this nation. She was deployed on operations across the globe, including the Middle East eight times, and earning battle honours for her service in East Timor and the Persian Gulf1.The ship’s motto is ‘she gathers strength as she goes’2 which is as fine a motto as you’ll ever hear and, given her capability right to decommissioning, rings perfectly true.

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Port of Melbourne – PDS 2050 Feedback Opportunity

The Port of Melbourne is seeking feedback on their recentlPOM draftCapturey released Port Development Strategy 2050 – a roadmap for the development of the Port for the next 30 years.  To find details about the strategy, to access a copy of it, as well as details of how to provide feedback on the strategy, visit here. Feedback is open until 6th December 2019.

A cyber scam came knocking

Cyber

Recently, while dabbling on my personal laptop at home, I decided it was time to delete my spam folder. I clicked on the folder and waited for the emails to flood in. As well as just clearing for the sake of clearing it, I was looking for a specific email that I hadn’t yet received, despite the sender assuring me it had been sent.

And then I found something that made my heart leap outta my chest and my eyes pop wide.

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