$200 K for foreign soldiers - Aussies lose Christmas reunions

Jun 09, 2012, 03:07 AM

Our government has been surreptitiously bringing in foreign soldiers sailors and airmen.
And they're giving them bonuses. Up to $200,000.
Meanwhile single Australian soldiers are to lose being reunited with their families at Christmas. A once a year reunion. And unlike government ministers and top bureaucrats, they had to fly economy class. This is a government which has left the country next to defenceless. As a proportion of the Gross National product, we're back to spending about the same as we were in the 1930s. Before the disastrous Collins class submarines are replaced there's going to be another enquiry. This has the advantage of taking any replacement out of the budget for this year. You get it- a saving. And where are the new fighters for the RAAF and the modern artillery for the Army?
In the meantime military prosecutions are still centralised Canberra. They are in the hands of a person who has never been under fire.

This led to the appalling prosecution of our SAS soldiers who were doing no more than their duty in Afghanistan.
The Daily Telegraph's Alex Devics reports (9/6) that 726 foreign soldiers, sailors and air force personnel have come to Australia since 2006. This has cost taxpayers about $100 million. War Graves campaigner John Saddington says “it’s an absolute disgrace. We’re hiring mercenaries.” Foreign soldiers are coming from Britain United States New Zealand Canada South Africa Italy Singapore Poland Greece and Germany. Why incidentally, aren't there any from Fiji? More proof that our politicians should not be just accountable every three or four years with candidates provided to us from the political parties. The politicians should be accountable every day of every month every year.
As they would be under Direct Democracy.