bianco
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Post a proper link about the Radio NZ slight (not a blog) and I'll read it.
Keep listening to talkback radio for your travel information.
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RSL chiefs have been outraged by an insulting trans-Tasman attack on Australia's Gallipoli heroes.
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.
Freelance journalist Josie McNaught said she was "so sick of hearing that ridiculous cliche'' that Australia's national identity was forged at Gallipoli.
Fellow guest, veteran journalist Jock Anderson then weighed in with: "Aussies have been reluctant soldiers at the best of times.
"And they've been essentially lazy bludgers, some of them, and excellent black marketeers, scavengers, poachers and thieves.''
Occasionally the Diggers had been quite good soldiers, Anderson said. "But there is no way they can hold a candle, in my opinion, to the Kiwis.''
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Gallipoli was a massacre, a total disaster, Aussie etc troops slaughtered, the ones that weren't blown to Kingdom Come retreated and were lucky to escape.
The 'national identity' forged there?
Someone should explain it all to Josie McNaught.
RSL chiefs were not the only ones outraged.
Talkback radio is a great source of travel information...real people, giving real advice about their experiences in foreign countries, at overseas airports etc.
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