By Cameron Slater ( *republished) I made this video some time ago for Skippy, my father-in-law. Some of the photos in the video were taken by him at Nui Dat. He was an Aussie serving with the NZ Army…he trained at Puckapunyal, Canungra and Singleton…many of the places mentioned
Wyn Fountain served as a Welfare Officer in the Middle East and Europe and was away for over four years. Later he ran a very successful business in New Zealand and, with wife Shirley, grew a great family. At 90 years old (in this clip) he brought history alive.
My father-in-law Skippy fought in the Battle of Long Tan. This is the documentary made by Martin Walsh of that battle.
In 2015 Dad and I were at the dawn ceremony at ANZAC Cove and then the service at Chunuk Bair. I carried the medals of my great-grandfather Harry Crozier with me. It was 100 years since ANZAC troops set foot on the Gallipoli peninsula in that ill-fated campaign. Going to
This is my ANZAC Day tribute posting. ANZAC Day means a great deal for me and my family. I suppose it is because we have a connection to the original ANZACS in 1915 and Gallipoli, and to a veteran of a war much fresher in our minds, Vietnam. Firstly, I
Some kids have all the luck. Like most kids, I was a dinosaur fanatic. I still am. I was lucky enough, at least, to go on a bona fide fossil dig, in my early teens. I’ve fossicked a handful of minor fossils since. But nothing like little Lily Wilder’
Saul Zimet fee.org Saul Zimet is a Hazlitt Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education and a graduate student in economics at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York. In Dallas, Texas, an assortment of particularly risk-tolerant graduate students sat around a
It may have won a swag of Academy Awards, though why is beyond me, but James Cameron’s Titanic is not exactly noted for its historical accuracy. From Picasso paintings that most definitely weren’t on the Titanic, to flashlights and filtered cigarettes, there were a whole bunch of anachronisms.
Olivia Pierson oliviapierson.org A large part of the success of Western civilisation was that our European ancestors saw fit to mount an enormous civil war during the Reformation and Counter Reformation to defang Catholic theocracy during the pernicious times of the Inquisition. It climaxed with the regicide of the
Michael Cook Michael Cook Is Editor of Mercator mercatornet.com Fifty years ago died one of the most remarkable women of the 20th century. You have probably never heard of Stanistawa Leszczynska. Few people have. Yet she was a model of heroism and humanity who should be acclaimed around the
As I wrote recently, even the dim bulbs of the woke left are aware that shilling for the most regressive, misogynist, homophobic religious ideology in the world is an obvious and staggering hypocrisy. So, what do most of them do? What the left always do when they’re caught out:
Geoff Parker In her disjointed article, Josie Pagani promotes the dark forces that strive to undermine New Zealand’s precious democracy. In my view, Pagani pins her argument for Maori wards or ‘power-sharing’ on the Treaty of Waitangi, but there is nothing in the Treaty (any version or translation) that
Chris Lynch Chris Lynch is a journalist, videographer and content producer, broadcasting from his independent news and production company in Christchurch, New Zealand. chrislynchmedia.com A dawn service in Cathedral Square will provide an opportunity for residents to honour New Zealand’s fallen soldiers on Anzac Day. Thousands are expected
