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,…
Amongst the Australia Day 2018 Honours List are celebrated members of Australia’s Defence Force included in the Honours List’s Military Division – deservingly recognised by The Governor-General and Chancellor of the Order of Australia, His Excellency General the Honourable Sir…
One’s great great uncle’s generation of men were the best Australia has produced, thus far. Subsequent generations of Australians could only imagine; but we mortals should read, learn and must never forget. Mine was blown to bits by the Germans…
Malcolm Turnbull at Australia’s Middle East Operations base at Al Minhad in the UAE on ANZAC Day. Turnbull has defiled ANZAC Day by promising to commit Australian troops for the “long term” in the Middle East, ostensibly to assist in…
Winston Churchill sacrificed Australian soldiers in 1915 at Gallipoli (some 8,709) then again in 1941 at Singapore (14,972 in Changi Prison and the Japs slave Thai-Burma Railway) because we were expendable fodder. Any lessons lads? Australian soldiers imprisoned, tortured, beheaded…
So Vietnamese bureaucrats have chucked a tết offensive against our 50th commemoration of the Battle of Long Tan. No war is going to go as planned, or home-comings, or memories or one day debriefs just to hand gear back and…
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…
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…
Lads, if you wanna get ya balls nuggeted and a broomstick up ya rear, then there’s a career job for you in the Royal Australian Navy. Girls get special treatment. Just ask recruits ‘processed’ through: The Navy’s HMAS Leeuwin naval…
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…
On this day twenty years ago (June 12, 1996) while on Army night exercise, two Australian Army Black Hawk Helicopters collided in midair shortly after dusk in the Army’s High Range Training Area about 90 km west of Townsville. The…
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…
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.…
This morning, Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced that France’s DCNS consortium has successfully been awarded our Royal Australian Navy’s $50 billion contract to build and maintain the 12 Shortfin Barracuda submarines out of South Australia. Small mercies from those…
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…
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…
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,…
The designer of the F-16, Pierre Sprey, confirms the F-35 was always a lemon. Australia’s former Liberal PM Tony Abbott was a blind faith fool, who wasted more taxpayer wealth than his predecessor PM Kevin Rudd on buying 58 more…
Seems our Australian Navy is in the news again. Frigate HMAS Warramunga this week has been on doughnut exercises in the bays of New Zealand’s south island gunning it at 27 knots. According to the local Marlborough harbourmaster last Tuesday,…
So PM Mal has problems finding more tax revenue, but a day later comes up with yet another way to spend money he hasn’t got, while he has a current $300 billion government debt still growing. Nah worries mate! On…
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…
Canberra on the one hand gifts $45 million a year to fund Islamic state schools teaching their radical Islam and Sharia across urban Australia. Conversely, Canberra spends $1.2 billion every year on Islamic counter-terrorism. Go figure! It would be cheaper…
So what in Australia on Australia Day makes Australians so distinctively Australian? Well tell us what other country would put up with tanty Cathy and lewd Mitch? Answer: Only bloody Australia! How more tolerant can Australia be? Next we’ll have…
In Australia’s current national security debate, Australians needs to get perspective. Islamism is a threat to the safety of Australians. Fact. Islamism is becoming a threat to Australian culture, values and way of life. Islam’s professed goal is world domination…
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…
This time of year is for the spirit of Christmas. Christmas is a time for family, friends and giving. For those Australians not on the breadline, many generously give donations to those in need. Sadly, more and more Ordinary Australians…
Head of Australia’s intelligence service, ASIO, Major-General Lewis has said it is “very clear” that Islamic State had already “tapped into” and radicalised young Australians. “That’s been well documented. We have had three attacks involving fatalities and six thwarted attacks…
It’s a bit late for the European Union to revoke its open border policy. Europe’s dumb Schengen Agreement since 1985 has meant passport-free transit between 26 European countries. It’s open humanitarian immigration policy has let in millions of Arab muslims…
It’s a bloody insult to our Diggers! When limp-wristed brass under enemy fire hide in their tents only to later claim Gallantry and DSO’s for glitzy chest medal egos, no wonder our front-line soldiers puke, get plastered and depressed! Brigadier…
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…
What Australia should do with Japanese submarines, is what Australians have always done. Prior to Australia’s 2013 national election, the Liberal Party’s then Shadow Defence Minister David Johnston said: “We will deliver those submarines from right here at ASC in…
Yet another immigrant ethnic recruit has been screened and accepted into the Australian Defence Force Academy for our military leadership only to be subsequently charged with raping two Aussie women. The first rape allegedly took place after a night out…
Today, August 18 2014 marks the 48th anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan in 1966 during the Vietnam War between Australians and Vietnamese. The Australians who served in Vietnam were a blend of professional soldiers augmented by National Servicemen…
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…
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…
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…
Today on Australia’s Vietnam Veterans Day, the Australia First Party acknowledges the selfless service and sacrifice of Australia’s men and women who served our nation during the Vietnam War and who took part in various capacities in all conflicts under…
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,…
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…