Kiwi's 'bludger' remark outrages Aussie war veterans

TVNZ Sunday 22nd April, 2012

Source: ONE News A Kiwi journalist's description of Australian World War I soldiers as "bludgers, poachers and thieves" has caused outrage across the Tasman. Jock Anderson said Australian diggers were "reluctant soldiers" on a Radio New Zealand programme discussing a book by Australian historian and former army officer Graham Wilson. "And they've been essentially lazy bludgers, some of them, and excellent black marketeers, scavengers, poac...

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