The following blog post was inspired by a suggestion from Skinny Cap reader Jayde, who wrote to me: “I hear people complaining all the time in the media about things like the mining tax and asylum seekers, claiming ‘we have to pay more’ or ‘asylum seekers should be sent back’ when we live in such an amazing country. We have constant power, running water, great roads, schools and hospitals, are not under attack by guerilla military and don’t live in a country run under a … [Read more...]
Apr 25, 2012
On Anzac Day, it’s un-Australian to not reflect
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It's the horrible truth - it's the young who go to war and many of them don't come back. On April 25 each year, we commemorate Anzac Day, Australia's most important national occasion where we mark the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Aussie and New Zealand forces...World War I, and every war thereafter. A brief history lesson: Anzac is the acronym for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, but many of us lower case it because that's just the way it is. Thousands … [Read more...]
