photo credit: ADFAustralian Prime Minister John Howard (1996-2007) with the troops DEFENCE MINISTER MAKES SENSE ON AFGHANISTANby Sasha Uzunov The current Australian Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon has tacitly acknowledged the wearing down of our Special Forces, because of the failed Nelson-Howard military doctrine, in the Afghanistan War. But we must remember two things: One, we […]
Update: Defence reviews rules on shares courtesty of http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/defence-reviews-rules-on-shares/2008/09/05/1220121526676.html SYDNEY MORNING HERALD Phillip Hudson, September 6, 2008 THE Defence Minister, Joel Fitzgibbon, will review the rules for senior Defence chiefs owning shares and the use of military equipment and facilities to host functions for sports teams. Yesterday he demanded a written briefing from the Department […]
TOP DEFENCE STORIES OF THE DAY http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/defence-chiefs-in-shares-debacle/2008/09/04/1220121431527.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2 Syndey Morning Herald Top brass swallow the Firepower pill Gerard RyleSeptember 5, 2008EXCLUSIVEA 4200-TONNE navy guided missile frigate was handed over at taxpayers’ expense for a gala sponsorship function involving the failed fuel pill company Firepower soon after Defence Force chiefs became investors. more….——————————————-http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24293809-662,00.htmlHerald Sun Australia’s military budget […]
DIGGERS UNDER FIRE IN AFGHANISTAN The Herald Sun newspaper is describing the wounding in action of 9 Australian Special Forces soldiers as the heaviest casualty toll since our involvement in the Vietnam War (1962-72). One digger is still fighting for his life and has been evacuated to a military hospital in Germany. The Australians share […]
Leading conservative intellectual Dr Gerard Henderson has tried to offer some balance to the hysterical reporting by the Sunday Age (Fairfax media) about my story on Garrie Hutchinson His letter to the crikey news website: http://www.crikey.com.au/Your-Say/20080902-Comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups.html Fairfax: Gerard Henderson writes: Re. “Fairfax bosses put strikebreaking to good use” (yesterday, item 17). Crikey editor Jonathan Green […]
LETS NOT JUMP ON ABU GHRAIB BANDWAGONBy Sasha UzunovCopyright 2008 A report in today’s The Australian newspaper by Mark Dodd has revealed that Australian soldiers are detaining Afghan Taliban suspects in dog pens, which are culturally insensitive. Before we jump on the Abu Ghraib Iraqi prisoner scandal bandwagon here, let us get all the facts […]
Vandalised monument given a clean Good news. The statue of Naval explorer Matthew Flinders in Melbourne, reported as being vandalised, has been given a clean by the local authorities. Photo taken at 12.20pm, Tuesday 2 September 2008. Hoons attack Melbourne Naval monumentMATTHEW FLINDERS STATUE VANDALISED UNDER POLICE NOSES Photo taken: Saturday 30 August 2008 at […]
Melbourne Writers Festival ends… PILGER’S FRIENDLY FIRE by Sasha Uzunovcopyright 2008 I spent thirty minutes waiting for the scheduled start of controversial journalist John Pilger’s talk on the “silence of the media” at the Melbourne Writers Festival on Saturday 23 August after organisers had botched the seating plan. But the wait was worth it. Friendly […]
TIME TO THINK OUTSIDE THE BOXBy Sasha Uzunovcopyright 2008 The Australian Army’s new Chief, Lieutenant General Ken Gillespie, has recently called for a dramatic change in the way our army fights in a modern and complicated world. This is long overdue, but we will have to wait and see if that ever materialises or just […]
After some confusion over who paid and who did not pay, we are happy to report that the mess has been cleared up over the medals for Long Tan veterans, as reported earlier. cheersSasha Uzunov
