AN Adelaide Hills hotel’s decision to introduce topless barmaids on Anzac Day has drawn fire from the RSL. SA Returned and Services League deputy state president Graham Nybo said the Kersbrook Tavern event was an affront to the dignity of Anzac Day. “For the 106,000 people who lost their lives, it is a day of [...]

Amongst other interest I run a site for my Vietnam Alma Mater 7RAR, and of late I have redesigned it, mainly due to an increase in interest by the new generation of ‘Protectors of the Realm’. 7RAR currently has troops on operations in Afghanistan and the reality is, if they are not on patrol they [...]

AUSTRALIANS are being urged to support members of the Australian Defence Force this Anzac Day by posting a message on a dedicated website or by SMS. A joint initiative between the Australian Defence Force and Telstra has created this website to enable the messages to be posted. Text and picture messages can be sent to [...]

President Obama continues with his left wing plan to lend support to the Terrorists and every little Communist dictator he meets.   Forelock tugging in the Middle East, smiles and chats with Chavez and ” Hello Cuba, I want to be your friend” type activities must be making for many a wide eyed foreign diplomat. [...]

A Canberra bomber with 2 Sqn RAAF in South Vietnam THE remains of an RAAF Canberra bomber flown by Australia’s last two MIAs have been found in Vietnam. The wreckage was found in a remote mountainous region near the Viet-Lao border but no human remains have been located so far, Defence Science and Personnel Minister [...]

Our US hosts have been upgrading their servers with the result that some posts and comments have been lost, presumable permanently.   I realize that fact won’t impact negatively on the world’s literary inventory but it is annoying just the same, in that I can’t for the life of me remember what I said other [...]

As proof that Rudd’s “We either spend 40 billion or we do nothing” line is working is this letter in The Australian this morning. THIS week I went to my local supermarket and purchased goods worth less than $50 which I paid for with my EFTPOS card. I live less than 200 kilometres from the [...]

AFTER days of tense negotiations, the US Navy rescue of an American sea captain came in a matter of seconds on Easter Sunday when a few sniper bullets killed three Somali pirates who authorities feared were about to kill him. There is a simple and economic answer to pirates. Just have an Infantry section (10 [...]

Some 200 mosques in Islam’s holiest city, Mecca, point the wrong way for prayers, reports from Saudi Arabia say. All mosques have a niche showing the direction of the most sacred Islamic site, the Kaaba, an ancient cube-like building in Mecca’s Grand Mosque. But people looking down from recently built high-rises in Mecca found the [...]

In the last century, when I was a soldier, many a night I went to sleep listening to Taps on the Battalion PA system – on other nights I ignored it and order another round. However it was never played as sweetly as this and never by one so young – do yourself a favour, [...]