Senator Vanstone has announced that Australia will help Thailand with new counter-terrorism and identity fraud measures and said cooperation between Australia and Thailand was important for the border protection of both nations because it would reduce the opportunity for terrorists to enter either country. Senator Vanstone also announced, during her tour of the Suvarnabhumi Airport, [...]

WASHINGTON: President George W.Bush has branded the US news media “disgraceful” for disclosing a secret government program to monitor international finances and track terrorist funding. The New York Times reported on Friday that the US Government had secretly monitored thousands of international banking transactions since the attacks on New York and Washington in order to [...]

Daniel Pipes reports on the dismaying results of a world-wide poll on Muslim attitudes to the west. A proclivity to conspiracy theories: In not one Muslim population polled does a majority believe that Arabs carried out the attacks of September 11, 2001, on America. The proportions range from a mere 15% in Pakistan holding Arabs [...]

I’m less than happy with soccer – we play well for 89.5 minutes and we loose because an Italian fell over and got a free kick for his dramatics. They are clearly better at the “fall over and appeal for a penalty” tactic than we are. I’m definitely over soccer.

A cold windy day in Brisbane and the dogs know what to do…. snuggle up below the deck level to keep out of the wind. The black lab is a year old now and has settled into a routine of chewing my sandals, track shoes and deck shoes while the old golden retriever sleeps away [...]

Patrick Walters, National security editor for the Australian has written a particularly balanced report on blue-on-blue in Iraq. Go read and be informed.

More from the Kovco Inquiry Jake Kovco’s mates have a preminition about the body mix up An unnamed soldier, codenamed Soldier 14, told the inquiry into Pte Kovco’s death and bungled repatriation that a group of fellow soldiers had tried to prevent any mix-up involving his body. “We were looking after Jake and we wanted [...]

AN Australian soldier who wrote a damaging email from East Timor has been sent home and will be disciplined. The Courier-Mail yesterday revealed details of the email which included sensitive operational information. The young artillery officer known as “Gilly from Timor”, revealed detailed operational information including the locations and roles of units in an email [...]

According to this report Pte Kovco dreamt of death by his own hand just one month before he died from a single gun shot wound to the head. I find it alarming that he not only had such a dream but he then recorded it in his private diary the next morning. Physciatrists would have [...]

No, it wasn’t a case of not paying bills – it was a spam overload on one of the gravet.org websites that was starting to effect the server in the US.  Gary at gravett. org has been busy fixing the problem and I’m sure he will ask for another “Site temporarily closed” notice that doesn’t [...]