{"id":66232,"date":"2016-06-09T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66232"},"modified":"2016-06-09T08:18:26","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T12:18:26","slug":"australian-army-boots-politician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66232","title":{"rendered":"Australian Army boots politician"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of our fans in Australia send us a link to the story<\/a> of Minister of Parliament Andrew Hastie. He was using a picture of himself in uniform in his campaign for office. The Australian Defense Force asked him to stop using that image, he refused, so they booted him from the Reserves;<\/p>\n

Australian Defence Force members, including reservists, are banned from taking part in political activities while in uniform.<\/p>\n

The ADF says its policy is designed to ensure the armed forces remain apolitical.<\/p>\n

The image shows Mr Hastie in desert camouflage in Afghanistan in 2009 but also shows him holding newborn son Jonathan alongside his wife, Ruth, and is emblazoned with the slogan ‘not another politician’.<\/p>\n

He has not taken down the image, which troops he commanded had taken, from posters and billboards.<\/p>\n

‘It’s just a hint at, Hey, for the past 13 years, I’ve been serving in uniform’ and my formative experiences as a leader were with the Australian Defence Force,’ Mr Hastie told 6PR radio on Thursday.<\/p>\n

‘I’m proud of that and I think it’s good to let taxpayers know that their money – a lot of it has gone into my professional development – has been well spent.’<\/p>\n

Mr Hastie said the ADF had ‘used a bit of policy to try and push me around, basically’.<\/p>\n

‘I had to decide whose authority I answered to. It was the people of Canning. As a federal parliamentarian, I don’t take orders from the military.’\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The ADF is also trying to convince another politician of another party to do the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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