“It sat out in the shearing shed for 30 years or more, With cobwebs, dust and binder twine, and sheep dung on the floor. An old and rusted Lockwood kept its secrets from my eyes, A cabin trunk of leather, there since 1945. I asked my dad, who owned it and what we kept itContinue reading “The Echuca boys light horse”
Category Archives: To Those who Serve
Body cam bloopers
A solution to ensure combat behaviour? Features Australia Tom Lewis Getty Images Tom Lewis 24 June 2023 9:00 AM Body cameras for Australian military are the latest idea in the ongoing campaign to make our troops ‘behave properly’ in operations. Here are some thoughts on the proposal. 1) I served in a war zone whereContinue reading “Body cam bloopers”
Australians need to remember Ben Roberts-Smith finding was not a criminal case
Saturday Morning Herald columnist Steve Price says Australians need to remember the Ben Roberts-Smith trial was a defamation case with no criminal prosecution. “We must remember this is a civil defamation case with no criminal prosecution of the evidence not tested at all and it should not be used to erase the acts of bravery,”Continue reading “Australians need to remember Ben Roberts-Smith finding was not a criminal case”
Ben Roberts-Smith a Hero of the First Order
“any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone .” Ben didn’t stand a chance against the corruption of govt and media stacked against him- We will never know the conditions that they endured and we can only imagine the deprivation, despair and longing for family that lived with themContinue reading “Ben Roberts-Smith a Hero of the First Order”
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