Angus Houston

NOW there will be a new Defence Minister, Stephen Smith, who will have the rotten task of taking to the podium with Air Chief Marshall Angus Houston to announce that yet another Digger has been killed in action.

Former Defence Minister John Faulkner, right, with ADF chief Angus Houston and Army chief Ken Gillespie. Picture: Ray Strange

Senator John Faulkner did it too many times.

It was clear from watching Faulkner that he truly hated these death calls. He appeared to feel almost too deeply the burden of being the minister in the government which has ordered its troops to fight.

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  • thats war crimes u know says:

    10:22pm | 15/09/10

    staying silent and not speaking out against illegal immoral invasions based on lies that result in the murder of hundreds of thousand of innocent men women and children equates to supporting the war. Read more »

  • Gregg says:

    10:19pm | 15/09/10

    I think you split hairs Wayne with ” I have not stated we should support being in Afghanistan because we have troops there . What i said was that we should give our troops full moral and ethical backing for the job they are doing and also because what they… Read more »

 

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