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AFGHANISTAN: WHAT DOES THE AUSTRALIAN MILITARY HAVE TO HIDE?
Saturday, 17th October, 2009 (06:37 PM) |
*NewMatilda Oct 13
Compared to the other Western nations fighting in Afghanistan, Australia is notoriously secretive about its military operations, writes foreign correspondent JOHN MARTINKUS...
In the five reporting trips I have made to Afghanistan for SBS TV since 2005, my relationship with the Australian military reached a laughably low moment in a Stanley-and-Livingstone-type encounter I had with two Australian soldiers in the office of the then Governor of Uruzgan, Abdul Munib, in May 2006...
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John Martinkus began work as a freelance journalist in 1995, writing news and feature stories from East Timor. He then covered the conflict there for Australian Associated Press and various other media outlets. He has since covered conflicts elsewhere, in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Burma for print, and since 2004 for SBS's Dateline.
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