1922: UK PROPOSED NEW WAR AGAINST TURKS
LESS THAN four years after the carnage of World War I, Britain called on Australia to join it in a major new war. The victorious allies must stop the Ottoman army of Mustafa Kemal taking…
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THE NEW ‘MYTH’ – TURKS WATCHED ANZACS RETREAT
■ The Turks were glad to see the enemy go, according to a leading expert on Ottoman military history THE MYTH has moved. For a century Australians have been taught that the Turkish army was fooled…
COWIE’S LUXURY CRUISE REFUSES TO SINK
Shire CEO Carl Cowie’s luxury seven-day Mediterranean cruise at the invitation of prominent business baron Lindsay Fox continues to create waves, 22 months after the delights of the Athens-to-Venice odyssey have sunk well below the…
MISSILE STRIKE ON SYRIA RECALLS SUEZ, SPAIN
The Orbiting Eye pulls back the cloak concealing why Syria was attacked and what the attackers’ ultimate aim is following this egregious breach of international law. The real target, the Eye, a Middle East expert…
PUTIN READIES FOR WAR, COLD OR HOT
The Orbiting Eye takes note as Trump corrals his hawks into a war cabinet and Vladimir Putin sends out warning signals. Where will this end? EVEN FROM a great height the Orbiting Eye’s vision is…
TRIGGS: AUSTRALIA NEEDS A CHARTER OF RIGHTS
This is a fine address in support of a Charter of Rights for Australia. Bandicoot has not posted a more important piece than this. It is long, but please do not let that deter you! It…
SHIRE vs INSURER CASE GOES TO COURT
SHIRE vs INSURER CASE GOES TO COURT Very interesting information concerning the Mornington Peninsula Shire’s involvement in a legal action that came to court late last year has reached Bandicoot. The shire is sueing Jardine…
WARNING: THINK TWICE BEFORE YOU ‘DO A BARNABY’
Bandicoot believes Barnaby Joyce should be commemorated in an epithet, as was Malcolm Fraser PM, in the oft-used lament “I’ve had a Fraser of a day” in the aftermath of the 1975 Fraser-Kerr coup. That…
HOLIDAY IS OVER; THERE’S A SHIRE TO BE RUN
The gang was all there at Besgrove St, except for Cr Julie Morris, first constable, possibly in a divvy van somewhere stalking a villain. Veteran council watcher Barry Robinson was present, but he had forgotten…
BENNELONG NO BENEDICTION FOR PM
Malcolm “Stanley Melbourne” Turnbull didn’t get a massive electoral fright in Bennelong today (16 Dec), with John Alexander retaining his seat quite easily when forced to re-contest it after losing a bout with the Constitution….