FROM SKIP ROO IN CANBERRA

OBSERVERS WONDERING WHY the Albanese Government has not volunteered Australian naval forces to join a grand coalition headed to the Persian Gulf to keep open the Straits of Hormuz, are speculating that the country’s Navy just doesn’t have enough fuel for the job given the shortages emerging since the Iran War began.

“It’s either that or pure fuckin’ cowardice on the part of the Government,” insists Bruce Digger, now 105, who held the perimeter at Tobruk with a grenade and s spoon, all by himself for three days, in 1941. “And I can’t believe that an Aussie Government would be that yellow, particularly given the complete balls they’ve made of the oil situation here recently. The Poms, the Canadians, the French, the Dutch, hell, even our old enemies, the Germans, the Italians and the Japanese, are willing to go to the Persian Gulf to help secure the Straits of Hormuz. But not the Aussies? Bloody disgrace. If I had my eyes, and my legs, I’d be there myself. Grow a pair, Albo, and man up!”