DEFENCE MEDIA ALERT
Issued by Ministerial Support and Public Affairs, Department of Defence, Canberra, ACT
Phone: 02 6127 1999, Fax: 02 6265 1545
MSPA 332/09
Thursday, 08 October 2009
VISION OF DEFENCE SUPPORT TO OPERATION PADANG ASSIST
Defence Public Affairs will feed vision of Australian Defence Force support to the
Operation Padang Assist to Parliament House, Canberra at 1500.
Vision includes:
Operation Padang Assist: An Australian Army water purification and civil
engineering team arrive on a Royal Australian Air Force C-17 at Padang’s
Minangkabau International Airport.
Operation Padang Assist: Australian Army engineers from the Darwin base
engineering regiment (1CER) with the assistance of AusAID have established a water
purification plant on the beach of Padang in Indonesia.
Operation Padang Assist: An ADF medical facility has been established in Sungai
Geringging village, 75 kilometres northwest of Padang, on request of the Indonesian
authorities, to provide health support in the outlying region.
Media contact: Defence Media Liaison: 02 6127 1999 or 0408 498 664
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