The poor man spent his 20th or 21st year in a smelly Centurion tank in the Republic of Vietnam with Charlie firing RPGs at him trying to ruin his day. Thirty plus years later Charlie gets him only this time Charlie is a 5.5 meter saltwater croc MONSTER … the crocodile, pictured being tagged three
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Father’s Day
There are a host of positives being a father of five and yesterday seemed to highlight them all. Books on Cosgrove and Tobruk (Fitzimmons) and the highlight, a family conspiarcy where all contributed to a new Engel 60 litre car fridge for my bush trips!! I would normally say their presence was gift enough and
Land mines and little kids
I spent Wednesday down south at the Currumbin RSL at a fund raising luncheon organized by Mine Victim and Clearance Trust (MIVAC). Normie Rowe played MC and sang a couple of numbers and all had a good time for a good cause. MIVAC do wonders in Asia delousing mine fields and UXBs left over from
Pornography or Art?
The art world are releasing a flood of words that seek to justify Bill Hensen taking and displaying photos of nude girls. Others are shouting ‘Pornography’ and even Rudd doesn’t like the pics (or he sees some votes in taking a public stand against them) ……Prime Minister Kevin Rudd described the works as “revolting” and
Fitzgibbon spinning
HERE’S a hot tip. (from Greg Sheridan) There is not the slightest chance Australia will buy any F-22 Raptor aircraft, and there is almost no chance that we will ditch the F/A-18 Super Hornets that the previous government was going to buy. If the Raptor is not built for export why would anyone think the
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FIVE Australian-based journalists, known as the Balibo Five, were deliberately killed to prevent them from exposing Indonesia’s 1975 invasion of East Timor, a NSW coroner has found. “The Balibo Five died at Balibo, in Timor Leste on 16 October 1975, from wounds sustained when (they) were shot and or stabbed deliberately, and not in the
The Silent Anzac
11:00 am Sunday I departed Chudley Stud and rushed back to Brisbane to attend a family reunion. Whilst there I met Terry Roach, my wife’s cousin, for the first time. I had heard of Terry as he had been a Submariner when I was an Infantryman and to the best of my knowledge, of our
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