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Originally Posted by beetroot4000

So when are you useless Aussies going to claim New Zealand as part of Australia so Maoris can stop claiming everything and our politicians giving our country away?
We need a bit of Aussie racism.

Your one of those not fans of Pat Lam and the Auckland Blues, I take it.

Kiwis, bludging and claiming benefits from the government... I've too much respect for the residents of the eastern isles of New South Wales to touch that subject.

Just days from Anzac Day, our brave World War I Diggers have been branded "lazy'', "bludgers'' and "thieves'' by panellists on New Zealand's government-funded Radio National.

Fair cop I'd say.

Originally Posted by beetroot4000

So when are you useless Aussies going to claim New Zealand as part of Australia so Maoris can stop claiming everything and our politicians giving our country away?
We need a bit of Aussie racism.

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Originally Posted by 18.Platoon_in_Oz

Its gets a bit frustrating dosn't it? Especially when (am pretty sure someone correct me if wrong) it was the LANC FUSILIERS that got 6 VC'c before breakfast storming the beach at Helles.

I know there is a whole load of new books coming out soon ready for the centenary debunking alot of the myths

Remind them that the officer that gave the order for the Charge at the Nek to continue ( as shown in the movie Gallipoli), after it was obviously a failure was actually a Australian Regular Army Officer - Maj Antill, but portrayed as a cold unthinking Pom.

John M. Antill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In October 1914, Antill was appointed to the AIF as Brigade Major of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade, under the command of Colonel F. G. Hughes, an experienced regular brigade major. Antill embarked for Egypt on 25 February 1915. In May, Antill and the brigade moved to Anzac for dismounted action. During the fierce fighting at The Nek, Antill, now in temporary command of the Brigade, refused a request from the commander of the 10th Light Horse to cancel the third wave. Colonel Hughes had gone forward to call off the attack, leaving Antill in charge. Due to a communications breakdown, Antill believed Hughes had gone forward to lead the Brigade forward and therefore ordered the attack to continue. Hughes reached the line in time to call off the fourth wave. Antill took over command of the brigade in September 1915 when Hughes was evacuated due to illness. Antill remained with the brigade until the end of the campaign, though the brigade never took part in another major battle.

Originally Posted by 18.Platoon_in_Oz

Very true, I think Thomas Blamey wasn't a great help also. King was a proper Anglophobic (sorry theres that word again!), He was eventually forced by FDR to have the British Pacific fleet to come and pitch in. All happy allies together!

The Spams had quite a few of those during WW2 - 'Vinegar' Joe Stilwell, who virtually handed the Chindits a death sentence, and Big Head Patton spring to mind too.

Sheep shaggers, the lot of them.

Originally Posted by JoeCivvie

I know the Aussies were originally transported convicts, I just hadn't realised that they'd all been transported from Liverpool because when it comes to whinging and grief-whoring, they can give the Scousers a run for their money.

Not true! I heard some septics talking about how the MS Edwin Fox was used to bring convicts to New Zealand. This was especially impressive given it was in the museum in Picton and they were reading the museum blurb about the ship.

Didn't Patton just hate it when the Americans had to give overall command of the Ardennes to Monty 'cause they couldn't cope... Mwaha.