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Farewell to Sapper Rowan Robinson
Hundreds of family, friends and colleagues gathered at St Anthony's Catholic Church in Kingscliff, New South Wales, to commemorate the life of Sapper Rowan Robinson.
Sapper Robinson was farewelled in a heartfelt and moving service attended by family, friends and colleagues from the Incident Response Regiment.
Sapper Robinson was remembered for his dedication and professionalism.
"If the mark of a great person is measured by the passion with which others speak of him, then Rowan is a legend. Rarely does anyone get accolades for extreme dedication, professionalism, enthusiasm and selflessness in the same sentence as great humour, awesome character, life of any party and a great mate - but he had all of these and more," said the Commanding Officer, IRR.
"He epitomised everything that a special operations engineer can be and should be - bravery, mateship and a willingness to risk ones life so that others may live; those were his qualities, and to a soldier, we aspire to them."
Speaking on behalf of Rowan's mates, Lance Corporal B spoke fondly of the brave and outstanding soldier.
"Rowan lived his life to the fullest. Always up for trying new things, visiting new places and leaving his mark on every town he visited," said Lance Corporal B.
"On behalf of the boys from 22 Troop, from the lads at IRR and the outrageous Cronulla crew, you were an inspirational soldier and a best mate. You will be greatly missed but never forgotten. Lest we forget."
Photos of the service are available at the website at Australian Defence Image Library 
http://images.defence.gov.au/fotoweb/grid.fwx?archiveid=5003&search=20113092
Risk Management tool
Army releases updated Risk Management tool
26/06/2011
A new version of Army's Risk Management Toolset was released on 10 June. These tools are updates to the previous set.
- Information about the Military Risk Management and Organisational Risk Management methodologies can be found on the Army Military Risk Management website ;
- The Offline RAS+ tool can be downloaded from the ACMS website ; and
- For those with an ACMS login, the Online ACMS functionality can be accessed and used from here .
The new tools focus on improving the tools useability and will support all Defence personnel when planning an activity whether they are planning a major exercise, a public event, a review of ongoing business functions, or a training activity. The new RAS+ tool in particular, has:
- been tailored for other user Groups and Services. It supports the use of both Military Risk Management and Organisational Risk Management methodologies;
- enhanced risk event management; and
- improvedrisk reporting functionality.
The library of Standing Threat Profiles (STP) is updated regularly and now has over 40 threat profiles. STPs are templates that planners can use to draw on the expert knowledge of Risk Analysts and other Subject Matter Experts. The STPs can be contextualised by planners to streamline planning, the production of risk assessments, and the creation of a set of control tasks for the activity.