Scott Morrison and our Afghan allies: as shameful as Whitlam with South Vietnam
On August 18, 1971 then prime minister William McMahon announced the final withdrawal of Australian combat troops from Vietnam. It…
Our Afghanistan shame
There are multiple historic examples why the nation known variously as Afghanistan has been termed “the graveyard of empires”. This…
A Reader’s Digest manifesto for our new woke military?
ITEM: The Daily Telegraph, Sydney, Saturday, July 3 2021: The Australian Defence Force has turned to some of the world’s…
Curious… The woker it gets, the greater the ADF’s PR problems
As the inimitable Sir Humphrey Appleby once opined, “Minister, two basic rules of government: Never look into anything you don’t…
The challenge of Anzac Day, 2021
The extended ADF community has possibly never been so divided against itself as it is right now. The ADF’s current…
Why do our black lives matter warriors ignore the deaths on our doorstep, in PNG?
Just to Australia’s north across a contiguous border, tens of thousands of Papua New Guineans are at constant risk from…
Jim Molan determined to win the fight of his life
There are times when a battle needs to be fought and mates need to stand up and be counted. Many…
Neither age nor bureaucracy will condemn them: Anzac marches must be on
Barring further acts of political cowardice, Australians will commemorate Anzac Day 2021 as they have done for almost 106 years.…
The Sword of Damocles hangs over the heads of some SAS troopers
Central to the Special Air Service badge is a dagger, surmounted by wings. It was inspired by SAS founder Colonel…
War crimes? The buck stops at the top
MEMO: Foreign Minister Marise Payne, cc Defence Minister Linda Reynolds. Ministers, in a long life not always perfectly, although generally,…
Respect will never fade away
In the coming weeks, Australia will mark the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. It seems only yesterday…
Sacrificial Lambies
The Federal Government’s National Commission for Defence and Veteran Suicide Prevention (NCDVSP) is exhibiting all the signs of an impending…
Who knows all there is to know about the spying game?
It should come as no surprise ASIO revealed last week it had uncovered a “sleeper agent” running a spy ring.…
Score-settling does not deal with veteran suicide
Ivan Coronel Hains died “suddenly” in Sydney on April 18, 1952, aged 61. A medical doctor, he had held senior…
Jim Molan heads back to the preselection trenches
Jim Molan’s military contemporaries regard him as one of the most skilled tacticians of his generation. More, he thinks strategically…
To our glorious dead, but don’t forget the living
In a different age when navy Fleet Air Arm pilots flew flimsy wood and canvas biplanes, workplace health and safety…
Recep Erdoğan’s war on history
The most touching, if not confronting, memorial at Anzac Cove is the sandstone plinth inscribed with words attributed to Kemal…
They still call New Zealand home
Our Kiwi cousins can be a wee but prishus at times. Take this week’s visit across the ditch by PM…
A plaintive twilight swansong
The retiring member for Lilley didn’t actually whistle The Red Flag during his parliamentary swansong, though there were dog whistles…
The Trump delusion syndrome sufferers’ Samson strategy
Trump obsessives believe the current United States political imbroglio is all about a wall between that country and Mexico. Added…
Could the Katter crew organise horizontal refreshment in a brothel?
Back in 1996, recently retired Ipswich city councillor Paul Tully outed his then fellow councillor Pauline Hanson as a racist…
Their ABC exposed, implodes
The GayBC has become a creature of its own imagination. Observing incandescent staff delight from its far-right commentators – Phillip Adams, Barry…
Our army did not fight “frontier wars”
The Australian Army commemorates March 1, 1901, as its official foundation date. This day had particular military significance in South…
Katter’s Ottoman Empire Party?
Maverick MP Bob Katter has previously blasted any suggestion he could be a dual Lebanese citizen by descent, declaring no…
Imagine if they all stood up and shouted “bang” at once?
There has been much Pacific hand-wringing over suggestions China has been positioning to establish a military presence in Vanuatu. Before…
