And the band played waltzing Matilda.

Proud people remembering. marching and saying thank you to past & present heroes that made it the beautiful country it is. Your extreme effort helping to keep it that way will be rewarded

Please excuse me while I debrief and vent (at Boomer length) ..... I'm not feeling real flash. My house is on 1 1/2 acres in Purnim Vic (Pop aprox 300). Didn't know when we bought the place that Purnim was originally part of/associated with The Framlingham Aboriginal Reserve established in 1861 on land between Purnim and the township of Framlingham. You'll all recall the Archie Roach lyrics- "One dark day on Framlingham- came and didn't give a dam" 'Took the children Away'... Yea, well, that's the place. In the mid 1800's the remnant tribes of of broader Kulin Nation alliance, the Gunditjmara, Kirrae Whurrong, Wadawurrung, Jardwadjali, and Eastern Maar peoples were all rounded up and stuck out at 'Fram'- 'The Mish'. Then the borders of The Mish shrank as even that land got chipped away ,'annexed'. When I was still able to walk the dog around the block in Purnim I used to often think about the most famous bloke who grew up here and trod the same ground- Reginald ('Reg') Walter Saunders, MBE (7 August 1920 – 2 March 1990) was the first Aboriginal Australian to be commissioned as an officer in the Australian Army. He came from a military family, his forebears having served in the Boer War and the First World War. Enlisting as a soldier in 1940, he saw action during the Second World War in North Africa, Greece and Crete, before being commissioned as a lieutenant and serving as a platoon commander in New Guinea during 1944–1945. His younger brother Harry also joined the Army, and was killed in 1942 during the Kokoda Track campaign. (I'll leave it to you to Google for more detail). You won't find a statue or a plaque to Reg or his brother in Purnim. I woke up today to the bellowing controversy around Welcome To Country on ANZAC Day. What a bloody shocker to be put through that hey. The poor buggers who had to endure it aught get a medal for their patience and endurance. Probably some Compo in it for PTSD. 🙁 When Reg's forebears came back WELCOME HOME TO COUNTRY having served in the Boer War and the First World War they still weren't citizens and still didn't have voting rights. When Reg came back WELCOME HOME TO COUNTRY having served in the Second World War he still wasn't a citizen and still didn't have voting rights. >>>>>>>>>LEST WE FORGET<<<<<<<<<<<<< Citizenship rights were formally clarified in 1949. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples gained the right to vote in 1962. To those who wish to bitch'n'moan about Welcome To Country smoking ceremony on ANZAC day all I have is - "Please. I know where I live and I know its history...Don't try to blow smoke up my arse". 😒 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reg_Saunders

Amazing day

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It was a good day

Proud people thank you

Was there a welcome to someone else's country?

Not 1 Australian politician was present at the Gallipoli ANZAC day ceremony...not 1. The ambassador to Turkey needed to represent Australia. Let that sink in... Not 1 ...not even the Foreign Minister Penny Wong, Governor General Sam Mostyn, or Defence Minister Richard Marles etc etc. Not 1😢 This is how Australia honours all those who served and died at Gallipoli. The world is watching..lest we forget.

Thankyou all for our freedom . It,s time we made our country fight for better , Bring back the country worth fighting for . Just like all these heroes did .

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Thank you

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How desperate do you have to be to pay foreign fake news pages to spread this type of misinformation?

All things pass. Thank fu--k that is over. Of course nearly eight decades of listening to all the legends in their own mind and the melodramatic spiels of those who couldn't or wouldn't fight their way out of a wet paper bag, takes its toll. There is only so much a Koala can bear from all the Terra-Phobics and parasites out to bleed others dry. The codependents and the collectivists are the worst, I can handle the addicts, however all these pricks being super dependent on other people, places, and things, suck you dry emotionally. NEXT ANZAC DAY I AM OFF CAMPING; NO NEWS NO TV NO ANYTHING OF ANYTHING; A BIT OF PEACE, QUIET AND EXPOSURE TO NATURE

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This is the part to the Ben Roberts-Smith story that makes my blood boil. On the night of August 29th, 2012 a Taliban sleeper agent in the Afghan National Army massacred three Australian soldiers in cold blood as they prepared to sleep on their own base. Their names were Private Robert Poate, Sapper James Martin and Lance Corporal Rick Milosevic. The rogue Afghan soldier was named Hekmatullah. It was the fourth insider, or ''green-on-blue'' attack by Taliban sleeper agents in the Afghan National Army against Australian soldiers in 15 months. Out of the 41 Australians who died in Afghanistan, 7 died by way of these insider attacks - attacks which technically constitute the war crime of perfidy. Hekmatullah's attack was a war crime under Article 37 of Additional Protocol I (1977) to the Geneva Conventions which prohibits perfidy as an act of war. By enlisting in the Afghan National Army and wearing its uniform, Hekmatullah presented himself as a co-belligerent fighting alongside Australian forces - not against them. He invited the confidence of Australian soldiers so as to lead them to believe that they were entitled to protection under international law, and then betrayed that confidence to massacre them as they prepared to sleep. Ben Roberts-Smith was one of the first on base after the attack. He was ordered to find and apprehend Hekmatullah in order to bring him to justice. Acting on intelligence, Roberts-Smith and his men were led to the village of Darwan, where Roberts-Smith is then alleged to have committed a war crime, supposedly kicking a farmer named Ali Jan off a cliff and ordering his execution. Roberts-Smith has always maintained that Ali Jan was a Taliban spotter in a village that was a Taliban stronghold. It is a matter of historical fact that there was confirmed armed Taliban presence in the village of Darwan the day of the raid. Robert Poate's father Hugh defended Ben Roberts-Smith and his actions: ''These citizens in the village could well have been a civilian one day and pulling the trigger the next, that‘s the way the Taliban operated. This perspective should have been included to provide some balance and context.'' The Taliban fought by blending into the civilian population. They pushed sleeper agents into the Afghan National Army and murdered our soldiers in moments of vulnerability. Where is Hekmatullah today? He lives in Afghanistan as a free man, feted as a hero by the Taliban. They don't give a fuck about international law or human rights or war crimes. They openly boast about the way they slaughtered our soldiers through acts of betrayal and perfidy. So my proposal is this: Australia can put Ben Roberts-Smith on trial when the Taliban hand over Hekmatullah, preferably dead, his head on a silver platter. Until that time, FREE BEN ROBERTS-SMITH.

Look at these poor bastards and we can’t even get a proper dollar for our resources especially the gas. You know you can google how much it takes to set up a gas plant export glass plant offshore and how much it cost to liquefy it and how much that Plant would export Then it’s simple arithmetic. I believe the gas companies aren’t even paying the tax regime that they have now the so-called prrt tax. Stop saying he said she said get some proper Teeth some proper figures take it to the people shove it up the arse of the Prime Minister. It is clear to me. I have three words to say about all of this corruption corruption corruption.

I bet you are spewing you could never meet the height requirements.

7 FATHERS A DAY COMMIT SUICIDE SOMEONE DO SOMETHING ☠️☠️ Pauline Hanson said in 2019 she would do something about the Child support agency system but when she was elected she just directed people enquiring to a website and did nothing. She’s a liar. Can SOMEBODY DO SOMETHING What about the Child support agency when you talk about defending . It’s directly Causing seven fathers a day to commit suicide. Taking money out of their accounts emptying their bank accounts without warning putting fathers on the street causing severe anxiety, depression and homelessness .. then doing all of the above while the father is Homeless living in his car under a tree or in a tent and yet it goes completely unchecked and NOBODY cares Seven Father’s Day commit suicide

We're you standing on a box to see over the rail?

The little bloke with a big beef.

We remember them all, Lest We Forget

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ANZAC Day is a day to celebrate our beautiful country Australia along with our Men and Women and Animals who fought for our freedom, it always brings a tear to my eyes and Pride, Lest we forget 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇳🇿

We do remember them all. Why they are gone, and they're sacrifices for their country. LEST WE FORGET

Not exactly an Aussie

Did he remember his Indian forebears

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Grand Standing again, little man. 🐐

I hope they welcomed you to country

Beautiful ANSAC DAY SENATOR MALCOLM ROBERT

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Look at the little fella clap!

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RESPECT SOLDIERS 💞 LEST WE FORGET 🙏 RIP 💞 🙏

We Will Remember Them, ❤️🇦🇺

Lest we forget. Always was, always will be

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