I hate to link to this kind of gutter journalism (who gives a crap what happens to Tania Zaetta’s pants?), but it highlights one of my gripes - the abuse of the term “Digger”. When Australian soldiers are brave and heroic and flag-wavingly dead, it’s all Diggers this and Diggers that (see here, here, and here). Now that they’re accused of getting into the knickers of some Who Cares Wins celebrity (SCANDAL!!), there’s not a Digger to be seen. Fancy that, eh….
As far as I’m concerned, when John Campbell Ross dies, our last WW1 veteran, there will be no more Diggers. Do the British media still go around calling their troops “Tommies”? Hmmm….don’t think so.
Australian ratings whores media sources just love flinging the word Digger around lately, to tug at our heart-strings. It’s only in the last year or two that I recall seeing the word used in the media to refer to modern troops, and now they just won’t let it go. I’m pretty sick of the way our troops have been commodified like this.
Edit: oops…. Jack Ross is still alive. Rumours of his death have been greatly exaggerated. Text changed to reflect this. Sincere apologies to Mr Ross.