In an interview about the current Australian political situation on The Bolt Report (Channel 10, 21 August 2011) Andrew Bolt asks the Leader Of the Federal Opposition, Tony Abbott, about his time as executive...
It is interesting to speculate what would have happened had not the German High Command smuggled Lenin in a sealed train into Russia in 1917 with the intention of weakening and neutralizing the Russian...
The defeat of the attempt to overthrow the Russian government in 1991 was one of the key events that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union later that year.
It was also...
Prince Harry has taken a day off from his Apache helicopter training to make a special trip to Salford, where he meet a crew who came under attack as they fought fires lit by...
While it is true that today's enraged Greek citizenry had voted for the present and previous Greek governments, Vrasidas Karalis says, these administrations used pre-election campaigns to disguise their real policies. This he says...
Governor-General Quentin Bryce has honoured Australian veterans of the Vietnam War's Battle of Long Tan during a ceremony in Brisbane.Karen Berkman filed this report for the ABC broadcast on 18 August 2011 {youtube}dbTu2C0o6Rs{/youtube}
Each year mock Constitutional Conventions are held for school students – aiming to engage them in issues related to the Australian Constitution.
These conventions are held at the Regional, State and Federal levels, with host...
Bruce Buckham, who died on 6 August 2011 aged 92, was “the kind of war hero that kids used to love reading about in comics.” That is...
Royal Commissions are an Australian tradition, the latest examples being into the bushfires in Victoria and the floods in Brisbane. In many ways a Royal Commission is vastly superior to lesser inquiries, such as...
After the Battle of Hamel, King George V knighted Lt. General Sir John Monash on the battlefield, the first such ceremony in 200 years. When Lt. General Peter Cosgrove returned from heading the extraordinarily...
