User:Saberwyn/The Slab

"... but I find that once I've got someone on the slab and had a good, you know, rummage around, I can thort out most thingth--"

- Spethial Conthtable Igor

Canberra class basing
The two LHDs are officially home-ported at Fleet Base East in Sydney. On 4 December 2015, the support centre for the class at Garden Island was named after Captain John Robertson. Robertson was commanding officer of the carrier HMAS Melbourne (R21) at the time of the Melbourne–Voyager collision, and was widely seen to be a scapegoat after the first Royal Commission found him to be at fault.

Basing the two ships at Fleet Base East has prompted complaints from nearby residents in Potts Point and Wooloomooloo. Issues raised include exhaust fumes and noise pollution from the ships' generators and machinery running around-the-clock, and that the large ships block views of Sydney Harbour. To alleviate concerns, Defence is investigating options to relocate one or both ships to the northern portion of Garden Island, and has installed shore-powered air-conditioning units (allowing the ships' onboard generators to be shut down at night).

The ships are intended to regularly operate out of Townsville, the base of 2RAR. To this end, the Department of Defence contributed A$30 million to the A$85 million upgrade of the multi-purpose Berth 10 at the Port of Townsville, which was completed in October 2013. Naval vessels have been allocated 45 days of berthing per year. Defence also spent A$5.3 million to lease and develop a dedicated staging area for equipment and personnel within the Port of Townsville precinct.

HMAS Platypus base

 * http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/north-shore/long-awaited-dream-to-turn-former-neutral-bay-navy-site-into-a-public-park-will-now-be-realised/story-fngr8h9d-1227623737435
 * http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-23/sydney's-hmas-platypus-to-be-open-to-public-after-development/6966820

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Books to look out for

 * - 2 volumes, about RAN honours and awards
 * - 2 volumes, about RAN honours and awards

Gennies

 * Onlsow Bonnie and Clyde
 * Ovens Klink and Schultz
 * Heckle and Jeckle
 * Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy
 * Jake and Elwood
 * Samson and Delilah

Life

 * http://www.awm.gov.au/wartime/51/oakley_life_below_waves/

Glossary

 * artificial whitespace: The block of whitespace displayed when the placement of an image clashes with the placement of another image, heading, or table. (As opposed to 'normal' whitespace, which is caused by overenthusiastic usage of the Enter or Space keys in the editing window)
 * bananas: B-class assessment criteria B1 and B2
 * cave test: The concept that a person with a modern high school graduate education, who has been living in a cave since before the event being tested occurred, can be handed a statement and the source ascribed to it, and be able to confirm or deny that the statement is supported by the source.
 * external wikilink: An external link used in place of a wikilink, most commonly seen either as a very poorly formatted in-line reference, or where the subject of the external links stands only a snowball's chance in hell of passing the various policies and guidelines for inclusion as an article.
 * Linkstringing: Where adjacent wikilinks give the illusion of being one concept instead of several. (The alt text from this XKCD comic gives the example of " wingsuit combat ")
 * reference jumping: The act of inserting new material between a statement and its citation, so that the citation is incorrectly associated with the new statement.