TEAM UZUNOV POLICY IS TO OPEN UP AUSTRALIA’S DEFENCE DEBATE.Therefore, we encourage diversity of opinion on ths issue The host of the ABC TV’s Media Watch, Jonathan Holmes, responds to the TEAM UZUNOV story: ABC-Fairfax hissy fit at Afghan news. MEDIA WATCH DEFENDS PAUL McGEOUGH “ABC and Fairfax big name reporters spit the dummy over […]
WAR & PEACE INCORPORATED By Sasha Uzunov Australia’s big name journalists who write on defence and national security issues have the double advantage of making a lot of money as well as indirectly influencing government policy but without having to face the electors. However, in recent times certain sections of the media have been chucking […]
RANN’S RADICAL ANTI-FRENCH PAST By Sasha Uzunov South Australia’s Premier Mike Rann has literally been in the wars lately and the media spinners have done the best to paint him as a man of peace but the feisty politician has a radical past where he took on the likes of the French security forces in […]
Victoria Barracks, Melbourne, vandalised with anti-Afghan War slogans. Photos copyright Sasha Uzunov 2009. TEAM UZUNOV EXCLUSIVE PROTESTORS VANDALISE VICTORIA BARRACKS, ST KILDA ROAD, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA. Photos taken Thursday, 8 October 2009 at 4pm. In eerie overtones of the controversial Vietnam War (1962-72) where opponents targeted war memorials and military installations, anti-Afghan War graffiti was daubed […]
www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=9497Afghan dress codeBy Sasha Uzunov – Wednesday, 30 September 2009 An extraordinary war of words has erupted in the Canadian press over the controversial issue of Islamic dress for women in Afghanistan and Western involvement or interference, depending on your political point of view, in that country. Highly decorated war reporter Scott Taylor, who is […]
CALL FOR AUSTRALIAN PEACEKEEPER DAY Mr Paul Copeland, National President of the Australian Peacekeeper & Peacemaker Veterans’ Association (APPVA) has called upon the Rudd Federal Government to officially recognise 14 Setepmber as National (Australian) Peacekeeper & Peacemaker (Enforcement) Day. “The first step for this recognition would be through the proclamation of National (Australian) Peacekeeper Day […]
FEMALES AT THE FRONT–women at war?By Sasha Uzunov The Rudd federal government is pushing for women to be allowed to serve on the frontlines of war in infantry, armoured or combat engineers within the Australian Army. The Minister for Defence Personnel Greg Combet, who has never served in uniform, is an enthusiastic backer of the […]
www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=9408&page=0 Real heroes and media heroesBy Sasha Uzunov – Wednesday, 9 September 2009 All the fuss surrounding Victorian State Minister Tim Holding surviving a two-day ordeal in the state’s snow country after being lost would suggest a society yearning for real life heroes and role models. read on…
HOLDING IS THE MAN! by Sasha Uzunov Victorian State Minister for Water and Tourism, Tim Holding, has survived a two day ordeal high up in the state’s snow fields after fears that he would not be found alive but the Minister is a former Australian Army Reservist with the elite 126 Signals Squardon, 1 Commando […]
10th anniverary of East Timor independence vote – 30 August 2009 ON LINE OPINION – Australia’s e-journal of social and political debate www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=9366&page=0 Should Clinton get the Nobel Peace Prize for Timor?By Sasha Uzunov – Friday, 28 August 2009 August 30 will mark the tenth anniversary of East Timor’s successful vote for independence from Indonesia […]
