About Australian Forces Abroad and Australia in Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands – context

• General resources and timelines
• Media
• Who’s who – Solomon Islands

Australian policy

• Australian government policy on Solomon Islands
• Australian government statements of rationale for RAMSI
• Aid to Solomon Islands

ADF and AFP operations in Solomon Islands

• Ongoing:
• Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI)
• Operation Anode
• Operation Helpem Fren
• Operation Shakem Han
• Past:
• Operation Plumbob
• Operation Trek
• International Peace Monitoring Team (IPMT)
• Operation Dorsal
• Operation Orbit

ADF elements in RAMSI operations in Solomon Islands

• Australian Army

• Royal Australian Regiment (RAR)
• 3^rd Combat Engineer Regiment (3CER)
• 1st Combined Support Unit (1CSU)
• 131 Surveillance and Target Acquisition battery
• Army Reserves

• Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)

• 171 Operational Support Squadron, 1st Aviation Regiment
• UH – 1H Iroquois Helicopters
• Air Lift Group
• C130 Hercules
• DHC-4 Caribou transport aircraft

• Royal Australian Navy (RAN)

• HMAS Tobruk
• HMAS Manoora
• Naval Task Group 635.5
• RAN patrol boats
• Police patrol boats
• Huon-class mine hunters
• Balikpapan-class Landing Craft Heavy (LCH)

ADF bases and locations

• Camp RAMSI
• Henderson Field (Honiara International Airport)
• Majura International Training Complex
• Rural police and military posts

Budget 

• ADF budget – Solomon Islands
• AFP budget – Solomon Islands
• ADF budget – general

Command

• Australian Defence Force – command – Solomon Islands
• PPF – command – Solomon Islands
• ADF – command – general

Equipment, weapons and systems 

• Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)

Intelligence

• Intelligence reporting on Solomon Islands
• Operational intelligence and RAMSI
• 1st Intelligence Battalion
• Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO)
• Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation (DIGO)
• Information Systems Division (ISD)
• Case Management and Intelligence System (CMIS)
• Transnational Crime Network
• Australian intelligence organisations, Australian Forces Abroad
• National Security Agencies, Australian Forces Abroad

Legal

• Legal mandate – ADF in Solomon Islands
• Rules of engagement
• Status of Forces

Australian Federal Police

• AFP personnel in Solomon Islands
• International Deployment Group (IDG)
• Operational Response Group (ORG)
• AFP Protection Services

Participating Police Force operations

Participating Police Force (PPF)

• Collection and destruction of weapons
• Training Solomon Islands Police Force
• Police patrol boats
• Arrest of government ministers
• Arrest of militia leaders
• Rioting in Honiara, April 2006
• Julian Moti and the raid on the Prime Minister’s office

Casualties

Coalition forces

• RAMSI Special Co-ordinator
• Combined Task Force
• Coalition forces – Cook Islands
• Coalition forces – Federated States of Micronesia
• Coalition forces – Fiji
• Coalition forces – Kiribati
• Coalition forces – Marshall Islands
• Coalition forces – Nauru
• Coalition forces – New Zealand
• No. 3 Squadron, RNZAF
• Coalition forces – Niue
• Coalition forces – Palau
• Coalition forces – Papua New Guinea
• Coalition forces – Samoa
• Coalition forces – Tonga
• Coalition forces – Tuvalu
• Coalition forces – Vanuatu