Defence contempt for Australian Diggers drives homelessness and suicide – is Canberra good at anything?

Australian Veterans Suicide Register reported 84 Digger suicides during 2017.  That’s double Australia’s 42 Digger casualties from Canberra’s 17 years’ US-support war in Afghanistan.   In 2016, Digger support network Soldier On reported 50 Digger suicides for the year.  Previously, the Australian…

Commemorating our nation’s catastrophic loss at Pozières on The Somme

July 23, 1916:  Well if Fromelles hadn’t killed you, Pozières surely would have. “Pozières, a small village in the Somme valley in France, was the scene of bitter and costly fighting for the 1st, 2nd and 4th Australian Divisions in mid-1916 defending…

Fromelles: Australians’ worst mass slaughter..and ordered by our Government!

This week marks 100 years since the World War I battles of Fromelles and Pozieres — two of the deadliest and most gruesome in Australia’s military history. Our decent honourable ordinary Australian men, trusting, signed up, trained, deployed and then were ordered…

Every faggot for itself in this man’s army

We acknowledge the following article by Australian columnist Miranda Devine in The Daily Telegraph of January 27, 2016, the day after Australia Day, entitled “Sorry David, but it’s the wrong fight”; except we’ve changed the title – out of disrespect for political…

Australia brings home 33 of its own from foreign war cemeteries after 50 years

Brave young Australians lost their lives in the Vietnam War (1962-75) and the Malayan Emergency (1950-63). Warrant Officer Kevin Conway, killed during the battle of Nam Dong in South Vietnam on July 6, 1964 was buried in Kranji War Cemetery in Singapore. …

Why Australia rejected the Japanese submarines in 2016

Out of respect for our grandparents who suffered at the hands of the Japs. In a nutshell, the French First World subs are superior, meeting all of our capability requirements and the French can be trusted.  Japs still can’t be. The last…

ANZAC Day meaning

Our ANZAC Day is an annual dedication to our national remembrance of our Australians with New Zealanders past and present who have served, sacrificed, lost their lives in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations, as well as of the contribution and suffering…

Rekindling our Waltzing Matilda

    Unidentified men of our 5th Division AIF partaking in cigarettes and resting by the side of the Montauban road, near Mametz, while enroute to the trenches. Most of the men are wearing Aussie sheepskin jackets and woollen gloves and are carrying…

We salute Aussie Diggers who sacrificed themselves against the overwhelming Nazi siege of Tobruk in 1941 for 241 days in the Libyan desert

Immigrant Arabs aren’t taught history – about how young brave Aussie farming lads signed up in World War II and ended up on the other side of the world in the north African desert digging trenches, defending Libya against tyranny, on principle.…

In response to requests for some good news…a Top Dog!

US Marine Gunnery Sergeant Christopher Willingham, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA is the proud owner of 12-year-old, Lucca, a German Shepherd / Belgian Malinois cross. Now retired, US Marine Corps service dog Lucca was trained to sniff out explosives and protect the Marine…

When low-life Japanese bombed Darwin and its hospitals

Australia remembers this day. Seventy four years ago Imperial Japan bombed Darwin.  It was the first enemy attack on Australian soil in the history of the Commonwealth of Australia occurring at 9.58am on Thursday 19 February 1942. The then small Northern Territory…

Turncoat Turnbull to name his first captain’s pic of Jap subs for Australia ‘HMAS Bullwinkle’

The Liberal Party will stoop to the lowest depths to sell out Ordinary Australians – Free Trade unemployment, mass immigration from the Middle East and foreign ownership of Australian farms, ports, infrastructure, property and wealth. But the Liberal Party’s latest unelected PM…

Feb 19: Imperial Japanese Bombing of Darwin

Just before 10am on February 19, 1942, Darwin was attacked by the Japanese in the first of two air raids under the command of Naval Captain Mitsuo Fuchida, who had ten weeks earlier bombed Pearl Harbour. Darwin, the largest population centre in…

Australian Defence Force should not let the years condemn our veterans

Australian Defence Force personnel, the very instant they graduate, deserve national government recognition of their commitment to duty, service and country. Every single one of our Australian Defence Force personnel, irrespective of corps, role, rank, contractual obligation, posting, hours per week, deserves…

ANZAC Day is about remembering, but more importantly about respect and recognition

Simpson and his Donkey at Gallipoli, May 1915 Jack Simpson Kirkpatrick is well recognised as one of Australia’s most famous, and best-loved military heroes. On the 25th April 1915 he, along with the rest of the Australian and New Zealand contingent landed…

Australian Navy brass need a fleet review to honour loyalty to their own

Australia’s Navy is spending millions on its current recruitment drive on Sydney Harbour that it calls a Fleet Review, complete with fireworks, enemy spy ships and patriotic speeches by pompous VIPs bleating on about representing Australian identity and ideals. Our Navy has…

Navy Veteran’s fight for government recognition to honour fallen mates

Typical bloody government.  You serve your country, somehow manage to survive if you’re lucky, but for the rest of your civilian life the government of the country you defended, won’t even give you the friggen time of day. Royal Australian Navy veteran…

Only Jap memorial for Darwin to be one of a Digger bayoneting a Jap combatant

The Liberals in Darwin want a memorial to “honour the Japanese who died” in their bombing raid on Australian soil in 1942. Surely we can’t be hearing this? Country Liberal Party (CLP) leader and Chief Minister of the Northern Territory, Terry Mills,…

Are we entering the dumbed down cheap century?

We await quality innovative products to appear on Australian shelves from the Asian century. Frankly, we would prefer quality innovative products to appear on Australian shelves from local Australian manufacturers.  ‘Made in Australia’ has so much more a feel-good ring to it…