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
MATTHEW FLINDERS STATUE VANDALISED UNDER POLICE NOSES Photo taken: Saturday 30 August 2008 at 11.30am, Swanston Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. A prominent Melbourne city monument, the Matthew Flinders statue, has been vandalised late last week right under the noses of Victoria Police. The statue is situated outside St Paul’s Cathedral on Swanston Street and around […]
AUSSIE DEFENCE BECOMES OLD CANADIAN JOKEBy Sasha Uzunov copyright 2008 There used to be a long running joke within the Australian Army about Canada’s touchy feely military that had gone soft because of years of peacekeeping. Canada’s National Defence Department (DND) became the butt of jokes when it employed an expensive California guru to run […]
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23995986-5000117,00.html The Melbourne Herald Sun newspaper (Australia) New options to blunt TalibanSasha Uzunov July 10, 2008 12:00am THE death of Sean McCarthy in Afghanistan may send the message to allied forces that the time has come to meet insurgent attacks with an unorthodox approach. The SAS signaller is the sixth Digger killed in action in […]
