Time for an Apology

 

Pic Courtesy Adelaide Now*

The following letter, gentle reader, has been emailed to all candidates in my federal electorate.

It will be interesting to see what responses I get, if any.

I'll keep you posted.

*This picture, from the AWM archive, was used to illustrate an article by Grahame Cornes, a member of my rifle platoon, in Adelaide Now on Dec 4th 2020.

Note - The links don't work in the letter.

Find them here.

Update 15.04.22 - Genevieve Allpass, Suzie Holt and Garth Hamilton (who says he will take it up with the minister) have responded. If Hamilton is fair dinkum, he'd be taking it up with the PM. After all, the PM is one of the two people (the other is the Leader of the Opposition) who should be making the apology.

Kilcullen on Ukraine and Other Things

 

Pic courtesy Wikipedia

Dr David Kilcullen is a commentator for whom I hold a great deal of respect, if for no other reason that he called the invasion of Iraq "f**king stupid".

History, of course, proved him correct.

I'll depart from the usual convention that I follow on this blog, gentle reader, and simply link you to a recent  podcast of a talk that Kilcullen had with Peter Jennings of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, rather than sharing my own (comparatively uninformed) opinion.

It's well worth a listen.