Exercise Kangaroo 95: Environmental Awareness and Health Handbook (1995)
 
K95 was the major Australian Defence Force combined and joint exercise for 1995. The Exercise concept involved the further testing of Australia's strategy of defence in depth by exercising elements of the ADF in Northern Australia in a short warning conflict scenario. It was designed to emphasise the joint nature of operations at the operational and tactical levels of war and will also further develop the procedures required for civil-military cooperation during short warning conflict in the defence of Australia.
 
K95 ran for over seven months from mid January to the end of August 1995 and was perhaps the longest and most complex exercise ever undertaken by the ADF. The area of operations spanned a land area from Derby in the west to Cairns in the east traversing three State/Territory jurisdictions and encompassed large areas of international and territorial waters. The designated exercise area is depicted by the illustration located at page ix of this report.
 
Support infrastructure, budgetary and environmental limitations combined to preclude the entire area of operations from being used. For example, with the exception of Jabiru, Nabarlek and the main Kakadu access routes, National Parks were excluded from the area of operations.
 
Defence elements of seven nations were involved in K95 in varying degrees with foreign contingents being from the United States, United Kingdom, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Papua New Guinea. Some 18,000 Navy, Army and Air Force personnel were involved with around 16 ships and 110 aircraft. Direct expenditure is expected to be in the order of some $64 million.
 
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