Does anyone know how the Tony Maddox of Toodyay’s case ended up?

https://toodyayherald.com.au/latest-news/magistrate-adjourns-waugal-case/

Last report I can find is that a hearing in April was scheduled but there seems to have been no further news.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgDye3rNXLk

Saw this done, by a Zulu choir, in Durban, years ago.

Well, I think I can get past the “cold sore” diagnosis ..duuuh! .. Ended up in Fairfield hospital on an IV drip yesterday afternoon & starting to get the impression from the “none” answers that they aren’t sure what I’ve got but it’s way past your average “cold sore” stage ..
?Rather than stay O/N (I only live across the road) I took a heap of anti biotics & painkillers home ..
?Shocking night tho that might be cos spent most of yesterday sleeping and this morning’s sight of the mouth isn’t filling me with confidence .. Starting to look like my prostate/Cancer op scheduled for 27th is gonna be in doubt unless I have a very fast turn around in the next coupla dayz …
?Wasn’t sure whether to post a pix, cos once seen can’t be unseen, but it’ll give an idea of the “problem” .. Only good side is the pain factor has dropped to a dull, occasionally sharp, throbbing ……. woe is me …. sniffles, sniffles ………!

Old enemies unite: The Australians finding the bodies of Vietnam’s lost soldiersFifty-six years after Australian and North Vietnamese soldiers fought to the death, Australians are helping to unearth the bodies of the fallen.
By Tony Wright
August 18, 2024

John Bryant remembers shooting flares into the screaming night, illuminating what seemed to be thousands of North Vietnamese soldiers charging towards the wire ahead of his position, their bodies falling to the ceaseless fire of the machine gun operated by his mate, Private Paul Donnelly.
“We emptied our water bottles on the barrel of the gun to prevent it from overheating,” he says. When the water ran out, Private Bryant of Delta Company, 3RAR, resorted to the desperate measure of urinating on the barrel. And when he sprinted into the dark to fetch more belts of ammunition, he shouted at his fellow soldiers not to shoot him.
It was 56 years ago.
The Battle of Balmoral was a furious and bloody action between Australian troops and two regiments of the North Vietnamese People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN) fought on the nights of May 26 and 28, 1968.
The Australians held their position in the treeline overlooking a dried-up swamp, 40 kilometres north-east of what then was called Saigon, as the North Vietnamese charged. Three Australians died on May 28, and uncounted hundreds of Vietnamese were killed.
Together with battles at a nearby Australian support fire base known as Coral, the Battle of Coral-Balmoral was hailed in a speech in 2008 by former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd as “the largest, most intense sustained combat endured by the Australian forces in Vietnam”.

All these years later, Bryant, a rifleman and forward scout in 1968, and Luke Johnston, whose late father Private David Johnston was a rifleman and machine gunner at the battle, have helped to return to the people of Vietnam some of the lost bodies of those North Vietnamese soldiers who fell.

Their years of investigations led to the discovery this year of the skeletal remains of 20 soldiers of the People’s Army of Vietnam within a mass grave.
The grave lay just 70 metres from where the troops of the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian regiment (3RAR) held out against the PAVN in a gun pit established within another bomb crater.
The long-dead soldiers, declared “martyrs of their nation”, were reburied with great ceremony in a Vietnamese military cemetery in Binh Duong Province, with Johnson and Byrant among the thousand-strong mourners.
A documentary of the Australians’ search for the mass grave, Phim Tai Lieu (Long Way Back) recently won a gold medal – the top award among 70 submissions – at Vietnam’s National Defence Awards.
It includes an interview with Bryant, who declares that during the battle he believed he would die. He says now he was too busy during that night to worry about dying, but he and his mates “got the shakes” after the shooting stopped.

What began years ago for Luke Johnson as an attempt to help his father cope with the PTSD he suffered during the Vietnam War has evolved into something he describes as “beautiful” – an emotional and respectful healing between former enemies.
He and Bryant have drunk rice wine with former Viet Cong guerillas and socialised with old soldiers of the North Vietnamese regiments who fought at the Battle of Balmoral, and found themselves deeply moved by their generosity towards the son and the veteran of their former adversary.

Peter Dutton has a piece in the Daily Telegraph:

The Nazis tried to conceal their crime of murdering six million Jews. Hamas felt no guilt when they carried out their terrorist attack on October 7. They invaded Israel with body cams and phones to film their butchery of 1200 people – the greatest loss of Jewish life on a single day since the Holocaust.

During my trip to Israel, I watched 47 minutes of horrific and uncensored footage of Hamas’s atrocities taken from these devices.

As Hamas slaughtered innocent adults and children, raped women, and mutilated their victims, the terrorists acted with glee. They called family members to boast about their cruelty. If there are shades of evil, Hamas is evil’s darkest shade.

Hamas’s intent has been clear from its Charter dating back to 1988 – the destruction of Israel and the killing of Jews.

In a conflict zone, polling must always be questioned, but not ignored. Results of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research’s poll taken in June are telling: 57 per cent of Gazans surveyed support Hamas’s attack on October 7 (a figure that was 71 per cent in March); 64 per cent supported armed intifada. Only 32 per cent supported a two-state solution – the coexistence of a Jewish and Palestinian state.

We need to be clear-eyed about Palestinians in Gaza.

Some Gazans are Hamas terrorists. Some will have been accomplices in holding hostages.

Some may not be violent, but support Hamas – a declared terrorist organisation – and its use of violence. Some may have no fondness for Hamas, but will be anti-Semitic.

And some Gazans will be people of good character, potentially able and willing to integrate into a democratic nation and subscribe to its values.

After all, there will be Gazans who despise the terrorist regime under which they live. Hamas conceals its military headquarters and weapons in hospitals, schools and mosques. It uses Gazans as human shields. It discriminates against minorities and persecutes homosexuals.

But here’s the problem. We cannot tell who’s who, unless thorough background checks are done.

When I was home affairs minister, I granted humanitarian visas to some 12,000 Syrians and Iraqi refugees, including Yazidis, fleeing ISIS. I also granted humanitarian visas to Afghans who supported us in the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban.

Extensive vetting was undertaken. Checks were done by ASIO and against our allies’ intelligence data sets. Face-to-face interviews were conducted with individuals in third countries. In many cases, the process took 12 months. Only then did we admit people into our country. They have contributed to our nation in many fields of endeavour, like refugees before them.

This rigorous vetting process has been abandoned by Prime Minister Albanese. His hopeless former immigration minister, Andrew Giles, granted tourist visas to 3000 Gazans – an entirely inappropriate visa for people coming to Australia from a war zone and territory controlled by terrorists.

These visas were granted in 24 hours, on average. No face-to-face interviews have been conducted.

Of the 3000 visas granted to Gazans, 1300 people are already in Australia. About 500 people have already applied for protection, and could be here indefinitely.

This entire process has been negligent and without precedent.

The incompetent Andrew Giles is the same person who, as immigration minister, released more than 150 hardcore criminals from immigration detention into the community, many of whom have reoffended.

There’s a real possibility that the Albanese government has allowed Hamas sympathisers and anti-Semites into our country by failing to conduct necessary checks.

The fact that countries close to Gaza – Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and the Arab states – have all refused to accept any refugees reveals the risk in the Gazan cohort.

The Prime Minister misled the parliament by misquoting the director-general of ASIO in saying that all Gazans granted visitor visas are being security checked by ASIO. The truth is, they’re not.

In presiding over a rushed and reckless granting of visas to Gazans, Anthony Albanese has abrogated his first duty to this country: keeping Australians safe.

Instead of debating the facts, Labor, the Teals and the Greens accuse the Coalition of being “racist” and “heartless”.

When they do, they prove they are not only Hamas’s useful idiots, they also expose their complete disregard for our national security.

A truly great piece. Share far and wide kind reader.