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…
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 take the…
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…
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…
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…
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. …
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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 find themselves…
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 Oliver Jackson…
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…
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 drafted through…
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…
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…
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…
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 Australian government…
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, now since…
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…
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,…
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…
