From Tanks to Bushmasters

Kevin Maloney is a retired LtCol who served in the Royal Australian Armoured Corps for almost 25 years.   Among his appointments he was and Instructor at the Officer Cadet Schools, Portsea before becoming the Senior Instructor at the School of Armour.  He was also the Army’s Logistics Operations Officer for Exercise Kangaroo ’89 prior to being appointed as the Operations Officer for Army in Victoria. Kevin was also ADC to two Governors of Queensland – Sir Colin Hannah and Sir James Ramsay.  Kevin’s passion is Rugby Union. 

He was a First Grade Referee with over 100 First Grade games under his belt.  He then became a Referee Coach and was appointed to three national Championships. 

He is a Life Member of both the VRRA and Rugby Victoria.  In addition, Kevin is the founding President of Tackling Leukaemia – a registered ‘not for profit’ charity whose aim is to redress the imbalance of the Pasifika and Indigenous cohort who are over-represented with the disease but underrepresented on the Australian Bone Marrow Donor Registry.  

M.C. Gordon Cheyne