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Hundreds of families reunited as HMAS Brisbane sails into Sydney
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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12/15/2023
Hundreds of Australian families have been reunited just in time for Christmas. Navy ship HMAS Brisbane sailed back into Sydney today following a three-month deployment.
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About 500 Navy personnel have returned home to Australia just in time for the holidays
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after spending almost three months at sea.
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About half of them deboarded here at Garden Island this morning, welcomed by family members.
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Three warships, HMAS Brisbane, HMAS Toowoomba and HMAS Stalwart, departed Australia back
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in September.
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The deployment was part of Australia's efforts to enforce UN sanctions on North Korea.
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Warships and their crews participated in several exercises and activities with allied countries,
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including the US, India, Japan, South Korea and the UK.
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During the operation, HMAS Toowoomba had an encounter with the Chinese Navy and HMAS Brisbane,
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which is the ship that returned here in Sydney today, evacuated Bureau of Meteorology researchers
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from an island off Queensland to stop them being caught up in Cyclone Jasper.
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We got everyone on board safe and sound.
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As soon as they were all on, we turned and headed for home and spent two days evading
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the cyclone and then got south of it just the other day.
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And everyone has been returned back to Sydney and then they're on their way to Cairns now.
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So look, the Bureau personnel had a great time on board.
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We'll quite often come across other navies up there and PLAN are engaged up in that region.
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We obviously had a number of encounters there with Toowoomba in terms of the diving incident
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there where we had an unsafe, unprofessional act by a PLAN destroyer that closed Toowoomba
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whilst it was conducting diving operations and radiated its sonar.
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Hundreds of families turned out here to Sydney today to welcome the Navy personnel who had
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returned after being aboard HMAS Brisbane.
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It's great to see the family again.
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Yeah, been away for a while.
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It's really good.
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We had a good deployment, pretty eventful.
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It's amazing to be back home, get to see my girlfriend.
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I'm super excited.
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It was a well-awaited visit back home.
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Personnel on HMAS Toowoomba and HMAS Stourwood were also reunited with their loved ones in
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Perth earlier this week.
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