Some reflections. Lest We Forget
Category: ANZAC Day
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,…
ANZAC Day
Gundagai 7th Light Horse Troop, ANZAC Day 2013 The Gundagai Memorial (Great War 1914-1918) carries the names of 1133 men and women from the town and surrounding district who enlisted. The 1911 Census shows that the population of the town at…
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…
French submarine ticks all the boxes and our ANZACs RIP on the Somme would be proud
Australia needs leadership. Bold, effective leadership has proven decisive in times when Australia has been at war. This is a time for such leadership in the strategic selection in Australia’s Future Submarine Project for the right submarine fleet for our…
Apr 25: ANZAC Day
On the outset of then ‘The Great War’, ordinary Australian and New Zealand men answered the call. Blind loyalty today cannot be understood, so to respect our forefathers we honour their unquestioned heroism and sacrifice. How can we not? Gassed…
Meaning of our ANZAC Day national tradition respects timeless heroism and sacrifice
On the outset of then ‘The Great War’, ordinary Australian and New Zealand men answered the call. Blind loyalty today cannot be understood, so to respect our forefathers we honour their unquestioned heroism and sacrifice. How can we not? Gassed…
Not on our ANZAC Day!
ANZAC 100 will be marred – in fact sullied and befouled– by an enormous display of disrespect. We will go further and say that the act is deliberate and a coded expression that the Australian traitor class has nothing but…
Apr 25: ANZAC Day, 100 years on
They’re all gone now, a hundred years on, this special ANZAC Day. Rest in peace great great uncle John at 21. Australians with New Zealander ANZACs, served their country’s duty, paid the ultimate sacrifice – else lived out their lives…
November 1, 2014 is our ANZAC Centenary of the first convoy to defend Australia
On this day a hundred years ago from King George Sound, Albany, West Australia, Australian and New Zealand troops departed in convoy initially bound for Europe to fight for our freedom in The Great War. After the outbreak of The…
Governor of Tasmania dares to let the years condemn our ANZACs on ANZAC Day
British-born Governor of Tasmania, Peter Underwood, has abused his Anzac Day speech at the Hobart Cenotaph by callously demeaning the spirit of the ANZACs. He used his Anzac Day speech to urge Australia to spend less time paying homage to…
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…
Lest Australia’s Navy vaselined Brass forget their own wounded
No wonder the Royal Australian Navy is losing good people and struggling to recruit. Get wounded or injured on active duty and consistent Navy policy legacy is to ex-communicate, abandon you and go legal against you. Thanks sailor for enlisting,…