www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=10227 Online Opinion – Australia’s e-journal of social and political debate. Scrutinising the media’s scrutiny of defenceBy Sasha Uzunov – Tuesday, 30 March 2010 If the media scrutinise the tip of the spear in combat – recent Australian soldiers’ behaviour on the ground in the Afghan war – then they need to scrutinise the spear […]
In 1998, a year before the break out of conflict in East Timor, Lieutenant General Frank Hickling, then Chief of the Australian Army, wisely undid some of the damage caused by defence experts in their running down of the Army’s warfighting capability. It seems the Australian media have failed to scrutinise these “failed defence theorists” […]
ASIO’S POOR RECORDBy Sasha Uzunov The alleged use of Australian passports by Mossad–Israeli intelligence—agents in a recent Middle East assassination suggest an impotent Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), which is responsible for our domestic safety. But ASIO has a poor record in tracking down the bad guys. In 2006 The Australian reporter Cameron Stewart revealed […]
www.theage.com.au/opinion/blogs/blunt-instrument/the-man-with-the-golden–cufflinks-and-matching-tie-pin/20100224-p39q.html ASIO Recruits Latte Sippers John Birmingham Blunt InstrumentI am indebted to my Facebook buddy Sasha Uzunov for alerting me to this advert for ASIO surveillance officers published in a local rag in Melbourne: … Blunt InstrumentJohn Birmingham tells stories. The AgeThe man with the golden … cufflinks and matching tie pin February 25, 2010Comments […]
US tennis champion Serena Williams spotted in Chapel Street doing some shopping but no sighting of Osama Bin Laden as yet. Canadian journalist Scott Taylor dressed as a local in Kandahar, Afghanistan, having a cappuccino. Photos by Sasha Uzunov copyright. ASIO WANTS LATTE SIPPERS AS SPIESby Sasha Uzunov The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), this […]
Above: Ex-Australian Foreign Minister, Gareth Evans, nicknamed Biggles after a fictitious British World War One Fighter Ace (below). Exclusive: GARETH EVANS DISPELS VIETNAM BIGGLES MYTHBy Sasha Uzunov Australia’s former high profile Foreign Minister and International trouble shooter, Gareth Evans, has finally put to rest a long running urban legend about a combat plane ride he […]
Tony Jones & ABC running scared on defence debate?by Sasha Uzunov The host of the ABC TV’s Lateline and Q & A programs, Tony Jones, has a reputation for being a media tough guy, who is willing to ask tough questions and scrutinise delicate issues. But it would appear that both Jones and the ABC […]
With a new Australian television ratings season about to kick-off, the search for the next Jana Wendt, super reporter, continues… ON LINE OPINION – Australia’s e-journal of social and political debate www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=10004&page=0 Reporting on the reportersBy Sasha Uzunov – Thursday, 4 February 2010 With a new television ratings season dawning on the horizon, some of […]
Photos: Top-Scottish flag of Saint Andrew. Bottom-Scottish soldier stands guard at Edinburgh Castle, Scotland’s capital city (photo by Philip Allfrey 2006). After centuries of British rule, is it finally ‘freedom for Scotland?’ And what of Ulster and Wales? ONLINE OPINION – Australia’s e-journal of social and political debatewww.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=9848&page=0 Scotland the brave, Ulster the unsure?By Sasha […]
Exclusive: AFP HASN’T BEEN ASKED TO INVESTIGATE MORAN MURDER By Sasha Uzunov Australia’s leading journalists have called upon the Australian Federal Police (AFP) to launch extradition proceedings against an Iraqi Kurd living in Norway and allegedly the mastermind behind the killing of controversial Australian cameraman Paul Moran in Iraq 2003 but strangely the AFP has […]
