Elizabeth Cosson
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Brigadier Elizabeth Cosson, CSC (born 1962?) is Australia's most senior female army officer, and the first to reach the rank of Brigadier in the Army.
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[edit] ADF Service
Cosson first joined the Australian Army in 1979.
As a senior logistics specialist, she ran the supply side of the ADF's operation in East Timor in 1999, and then served as Chief of Staff of the Peace Monitoring Group in Bougainville in 1999, for which she was awarded the Conspicuous Service Cross in the Australia Day Honours in 2001.
In 2005 Cosson became the first woman to be promoted to the rank of Brigadier in the Australian Army, and is currently (May 2006) serving in the Corporate Services and Infrastructure Group of the Defence Department as the Director General Regions and Bases.[1]
[edit] Kovco affair
Cosson was appointed in April 2006 to investigate the circumstances surrounding the repatriation of the body of Jacob Kovco. On 15 May 2006, following a meeting with the Victorian Coroner, she left a CD ROM containing a draft copy of her confidential report in a public computer in the Qantas Club lounge of Melbourne Airport.[2] Parts of the report were subsequently broadcast.[3] This incident is now the subject of a Defence Department inquiry.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ Brendan Nicholson and Misha Schubert Hand-picked officer devastated by bungle, The Age, 19 May, 2006
- ^ Patrick Walters, Bungle brigadier taking it very hard, The Australian, 19 May, 2006
- ^ Rachel Carbonell, Defence admits losing report, Lateline, 17 May, 2006
- ^ Patrick Walters, Nelson sets limits for Kovco team, The Australian, 19 May, 2006
