“In 30 years as a member of the Labor Party, I continually found greed, corruption, self-interest, branch stacking and elected representatives who often scoffed at the plight of their constituents…” ~ Former NSW Labor politician Ian McManus.
Our Diggers are at war.
Not with the Taliban.
Not with Al-Qaeda.
But with the Australian Government.
They have been subjected to political waterboarding and demeaned by the ‘scuttling’ of the Coalition’s Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Amendment Bill (Fair Indexation) 2010 that would have afforded them and their heirs a few more paltry dollars in the event they lived long enough — or didn’t.
Yesterday was the first anniversary of what must rank as the most ill thought political assassination in Australia since Federation.
It saw Julia Gillard, the Red Queen, eased by her ambitious and needy courtiers into the Labor Party’s High Chair, already heavily stained with bodily fluids, over the (quelle horreur) workaholic incumbent Kevin Rudd.
Read the rest and commennts, HERE
Earlier on Tasmanian Times: Retired Brigadier Neil Weekes MC throws down the gauntlet, HERE
