No longer proud to be an Aussie
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I used to be proud to call myself an Australian. During my 20 years in the Australian army I served two years on the frontline in the Vietnam War, spent two years "nation-building" in Papua New Guinea and another year helping keep the peace between Israel
The disillusionment started in 2001, when then-prime minister John Howard told parliament in the lead-up to an election that asylum-seekers were throwing their children overboard in a ploy to secure rescue and passage to Australia.
An Australian Senate select committee later found that this was a false claim and that Howard and his government knew this, but made no attempt to correct the public record. Of course, Howard won the election.
His prot
