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Colonel (Rtd) Rob Manton Former Military Advisor at the Australian Permanent Mission

The Royal United Services Institute of Victoria is pleased to present. Colonel (Rtd) Rob Manton Former Military Advisor at the Australian Permanent Mission to the United Nations ‘ Australia and the UN: A Defence Perspective ’ Time: 1200 to 1300. Coffee and tea from 1130. Date:

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Colonel (Rtd) Rob Manton Former Military Advisor at the Australian Permanent Mission

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  1. The Royal United Services Institute of Victoria is pleased to present Colonel (Rtd) Rob Manton Former Military Advisor at the Australian Permanent Mission to the United Nations ‘Australia and the UN: A Defence Perspective’ Time: 1200 to 1300. Coffee and tea from 1130. Date: 24 November 2011. Location: Shedden Auditorium, Ground Floor ‘H’ Block Victoria Barracks, St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, 3006 Entrance fee: $5.00 Defence security policy requires you to advise the RUSI Office of your attendance and the name of all your guests, either by email to martin.holme@defence.gov.au or phone 9282 5918. These names are provided to Security to issue Access Passes. If your name is not on the list, you will experience a delay in gaining access and thus the lecture. Please remember to bring a photo ID with you. Colonel Rob Manton graduated from the Officer Cadet School, Portsea, in 1981 and was commissioned into the corps of the Royal Australian Artillery. Colonel Manton has held a range of regimental and staff appointments. In 1990 Colonel Manton was deployed as a Military Observer with the United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation. Colonel Manton was appointed as Commanding Officer 8th/12th Medium Regiment in 2001. He was the Australian exchange instructor at the United States Army Command and General Staff College and on return to Australia he was promoted to Colonel and appointed as Commandant of the Australian Army Combat Arms Training Centre. In May 2006, Colonel Manton deployed to Iraq as the Assistant Chief of Staff, Multi-National Force - Iraq, where he was awarded a Bronze Star for meritorious performance. Colonel Manton was appointed as the Military Advisor at the Australian Permanent Mission to the United Nations in 2008. In this position he was influential in negotiating the United Nations General Assembly acknowledgement of the need for guidance on the protection of civilians in United Nations peacekeeping operations during the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations deliberations in 2009 and 2010. Colonel Manton retired from the Australian Defence Force on 29th April 2011.

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