One of the Dutch soldiers who saved me from a beating in Skopje, Macedonia Balkan flashback–Australian journalist reveals: THE DAY DUTCH SOLDIERS SAVED ME By Sasha Uzunov Last week the Australian government warned that Australian journalists should leave Afghanistan because they were being targeted by the Taliban. But since when have journalists ever been safe […]
Ken Pedler with Australia’s national symbol and as a digger (K. Pedler photos) Attention DVA (Department of Veterans Affairs- Australia)RWANDA VETERANS TRYING TO RETURN By Sasha Uzunov copyright 2008 A former Australian Army corporal who saw action in Rwanda in 1994 is trying to organise a return to that African hell hole to commemorate the […]
PANIC AND PARANOIA FIRE BRIGADE HOSES DOWN MELBOURNE TRADERS CONCERNS By Sasha UzunovCopyright 2008 The Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MFB) has today hosed down concerns from some of Melbourne’s Central Business District (CBD) traders by saying that an alleged increase in fire call outs were not due to training runs but were the real thing. Three […]
photo credit: ADF “FAILED” NELSON-HOWARD DOCTRINE ON AFGHANISTAN?By Sasha Uzunovcopyright 2008 The political and military fallout of the Taliban ambush attack on Australian soldiers in Afghanistan can be traced back to the failure of 2006 Nelson-Howard doctrine on the Afghanistan war. Nine Australian Special Forces soldiers in Afghanistan were recently wounded in some of the […]
DEFENCE MINISTER’S CONFUSING SIGNALS Aussie infantry ‘won’t engage Taliban’ The Age – http://news.theage.com.au/national/aussie-infantry-wont-engage-taliban-20080908-4bws.html September 8, 2008 – 5:56PM The federal government is not actively considering deploying infantry soldiers to take on the Taliban in Afghanistan, Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon says. Mr Fitzgibbon played down reports infantry soldiers would be sent to Oruzgan province as part […]
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 […]
