Submitted by Richard Tonkin on March 18, 2008 - 11:10pm.
"When I attend NATO meetings and tell them we are a Defence Force ofjust over 51,000 they look at me with surprise. When I tell them thataround half of our Infantry and Cavalry are currently tied to overseasdeployments they respond with a look of shock and disbelief"- Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon
Submitted by Mike Salter on March 18, 2008 - 8:47pm.
Football is, apparently, un-Australian. It leads inevitably to violence among the spectators (partly, we are told, because it’s mind-numbingly boring and so many games finish scoreless). It will never threaten the predominant winter code of the region in question, be it Aussie Rules or Rugby League.
