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In the last three years, Australia has experienced an unprecedented coalescence of threats posed to the health and safety of its population: the catastrophic 2019/2020 bushfire season;and the COVID-19 pandemic. In both contexts, the States and Territories have, consistently with the distribution of authority for emergency management within Australia's federal system, taken primary responsibility for responding to the relevant crisis. Forced to play a supporting role, the Commonwealth has increasingly relied on deployment of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) to provide assistance. The position advanced in this article is that the key justifications for use of the ADF in responding to domestic emergencies - particularly those constituted by threats of a not directly anthropogenic nature - do not adequately explain the value of the ADF and that significant functional and legal constraints on defence personnel in this context may, in fact, hinder state and territory emergency responses.
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In order to prevent the spread of Corona Virus Disease 2019(COVID-19) epidemic in the military barracks and reduce the psychological stress reaction of officers and soldiers during the epidemic situation, this paper synthesizes relevant studies at home and abroad,from the analysis on behavioral factors affecting the transmission of 2019-nCoV by combining psychological crisis intervention methods, raises the plans and measures for psychological intervention and health promotion for officers and soldiers, and explores how to conduct psychological intervention and health promotion on the troops during the COVID-19 epidemic. © 2022, Editorial Department of Medical Pest Control. All rights reserved.
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Drawing upon the Australian 2019-20 bushfire season and the COVID-19 pandemic, this article examines case studies highlighting the legislative impact of the increased domestic deployment of the Australian Defence Force ('ADF'). Leveraging comparable provisions from an analogous statutory regime, namely pt IIIAAA of the Defence Act 1903 (Cth), it considers how existing legislative provisions can provide guidance for the development of a statutory framework to govern future deployment of the ADF in response to Australia's large-scale domestic emergencies.
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The aim of the article is to review activities of selected European armies during the Covid-19 pandemic aimed at protecting their own forces and supporting societies in danger. The attention is drawn to the importance of protection against the pandemic and its legal and organizational conditions. The analysis is based on the example of the Polish Armed Forces. The method of information exchange in the case of an outbreak of infectious diseases among soldiers and civilians in NATO is presented, taking into account various national solutions. The scope and methods of using chemical troops during disinfection of people, equipment, and infrastructure are analyzed in detail. © 2021, University of Defence, Faculty of Military Health Sciences. All rights reserved.