Salvaging the truth
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The Melbourne Herald's bureau chief, Joe Alexander discusses some of the secrets and the search behind HMAS Sydney, which sunk in the Indian Ocean in 1941 during which John Curtin was the prime minister. The search would concentrate on the broad area of the German survivor's reports of their ship's position in the Indian Ocean, some 140 nautical miles south-west of Carnarvon.
Publication Name: The Bulletin with Newsweek
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 1440-7485
Year: 2006
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Retreat from Baghdad
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A former Australian intelligence and combat chief highlights the open-ended violence in Iraq leading to a huge number of casualties, which would finally force America to pull out of Iraq. He believes that the war is beginning to be very expensive for America and more Iraqis and fewer foreigners need to be involved in the reconstruction process after the war.
Publication Name: The Bulletin with Newsweek
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 1440-7485
Year: 2006
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Banzai junction
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Sixty years ago on a remote Indonesian island, the Japanese battle fell silent when a young Australian major, Bill Thomas, accepted the surrender of an entire division of imperial troops. After their surrender the Kempeitai were subsequently found guilty of war crimes and some were executed.
Publication Name: The Bulletin with Newsweek
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 1440-7485
Year: 2005
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