Labor's reaction to Zomi Frankcom's death compromises the ADF's ability to fight and win future wars. Picture Gary Ramage When Michael O’Neill, a Tasmanian who was helping to evacuate wounded Ukrainians from the frontlines, was killed by a Russian attack in May 2022,...
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Commentary: Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Saturday 30th Mar 2024
PLEASE be seated as we draw inspiration from Isiah 55, which says, “Come, all you who are thirsty but have no money, eat buy wine and milk without money and without cost”. Now I have your undivided attention, let’s address the vexed issue of religious affairs in...
ADSO Media Release: Reinstate ASIO and ASIS Director Generals to Permanent Membership of Australia’s National Security Committee
Tuesday 26th Mar 2024
The Australian Government's primary responsibility is to keep our nation safe from those who seek to do us harm, both internally and externally. The Government’s decision to exclude permanent members Mike Burgess the current Director-General of Security in charge of...
Opinion: Labor’s national security kowtow a win for Beijing
Tuesday 26th Mar 2024
The Albanese government is taking a series of disturbing actions in national security, effectively implementing an agenda that the Chinese Communist Party wants for Canberra Labor is doing bad things Beijing wants it to do. These are: expelling intelligence chiefs...
DVA MATES Program Crisis: A Breach of Trust and the Case for Better Governance
Monday 5th Feb 2024
Documents disclosed to several news outlets, including Australian Veteran News, reveal serious concerns about the Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA). They suggest the DVA misled the Information Commissioner about improperly handling veterans’ medical and personal...
Opinion: Australia ignores lessons from WWII
Tuesday 30th Jan 2024
The past may be a different country, but has well trodden paths and byways. In 1938 politically peripatetic Winston Churchill seemed a lone voice against British PM Neville Chamberlain’s attempted appeasement with Hitler. Churchill warned against the Axis powers who...
Warrior Poet George Mansford Poem – God, Please Don’t Strike Our Military Purple
Tuesday 5th Sep 2023
God, Please Don’t Strike Our Military Purple Always has been personal pride of warriors wearing military thread Confident and firm stride, be it off duty or on parade being led Spic and span, and ever so proud, the cloth has always been worn Long, long before...
Seventy years on, the Korean War still resonates
Sunday 6th Aug 2023
Commemorations in South Korea yesterday, and elsewhere around the world, marked the 70th anniversary of the signing of the Korean War armistice at Panmunjom on 27 July 1953. Today, amid the war in Ukraine and tensions in East Asia that could flare into hostilities,...
Commentary: Defence ‘con job’ shames leaders on both sides of politics
Tuesday 18th Jul 2023
It looks increasingly likely we’ll get nothing of consequence out of the whole Defence Strategic Review. This is not only dismal and not only the doing of this government. It shames our whole nation. - Greg Sheridan It is almost time to pronounce February’s Defence...
‘What matters is the sanctity of our defence force’: Defence Minister’s solemn response to Ben Roberts-Smith decision
Monday 5th Jun 2023
Defence Minister Richard Marles says the damning courtroom findings against disgraced former SAS Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith reveal the urgent need to implement all the findings of an inquiry into Australian soldiers’ conduct in Afghanistan. Defence Minister Richard...