A 25-year-old father of two is Australia’s first fatal casualty in the Iraq conflict. And the government stuff-up the return home of his body!The Defence Minister has blamed a "stuff-up" in a Kuwaiti mortuary for a blunder that brought the wrong body back in place of a dead Australian soldier.
Dr Nelson and Chief of Army Lieutenant-General Peter Leahy flew to Sale near the Kovko family hometown in south-eastern Victoria to tell Mr Kovko's family of the mixup.
Private Kovco, 25, was member of the elite 3rd Battalion Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), Australia's only parachute infantry battalion,
He was deployed in Iraq as a member of the 110-strong security detachment in Baghdad protecting Australian officials.
On April 21 Kovco was shot dead when his gun accidentally discharges in his room.
April 23 Kovco's body flown from Baghdad to a private mortuary in Kuwait, draped in an Australian flag with a paratrooper's beret on his chest.
Mine Disaster This story, as far as I’m aware, has nothing to do with corruption, it is simply about a strange and tragic event near my old home town of Launceston Tasmania.
A body of one of the three miners trapped in the gold mine in Beaconsfield in Tasmania has been found.
An earthquake blamed for Tasmania's mine accident appears to have struck almost directly below the shaft, but was so small its shock waves were not even detected in Melbourne.
A private seismology company, Environmental Systems and Services, which operates a network of Tasmanian monitoring stations, detected the 2.2 magnitude quake at 9.26pm on Tuesday, about 40 kilometres north-west of Launceston.
Spare a thought for the people of this far corner of the Earth.
A 25-year-old father of two is 
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