WAR – FREEDOM, JUSTICE and CIVILISED HUMANITY

An Open Letter Sung To Paulie Stewart – WAR IS A KILLER

Oct 16, 2025

Australia, Freedom, WAR

Balibo 5, National Press Freedom Day, Paulie Stewart, Timor Leste, WALTZING MATILDA, War is a killer

Dear Paulie, what happened 50 years ago today was a terrible part of war. These lines are intended to be sung to the tune of Waltzing Matilda: War Is A Killer. War Is A Killer. Berbunyi merdeka atau mati. And their ghosts can be heard in all our talk of Balibo. War Is A Killer…
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Olden From Ballarat Leading At Damascus In WW1

Sep 30, 2025

Australia, WAR

AIF, Arthur Olden, Australian Imperial Force, Australian Light Horse, Ballarat, Damascus, End of Ottoman Empire, history, World War One, WW1

The fall of Damascus to overwhelming British imperial forces on October 1, 1918, was a crucial moment in the end of the Ottoman Empire. Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Charles Niquet Olden, born in Ballarat in 1881, lead the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) mounted soldiers into the city. Historian Amanda Bentley writes in “Ballarat & District in the…