Nelson fury over new Kovco bungle

Nelson fury over new Kovco bungle :

"It was the third serious Defence blunder relating to Kovco, including contradictory accounts of his final moments, the bungled return of his body and now the loss and leaking of sensitive details of his death."

There is something fundamentally wrong with this whole sad tale and we know it. The story keeps coming back to us, as it will, until the wrongs are righted and the truth is out, at least to the family. In my experience things like this happen when fundamental absolutes are broken and then one person becomes the focus of it. In this case it is to do with Iraq and the truth. The family of Jake Kovko and the family of the Bosnian who was sent here accidentally have suffered one administrative bungle after another. The message is quite clear. To a bureaucracy invading another country the people who are sent there have no dignity. No one is actually responsable for them and they are very much on their own. You see, no one owns anybody anymore except the families and thus we are constantly confronted with Jake Kovko who was so young, so strong and had so much to live for being a bureaucratic bungle and his family having one intolerable mistake foisted on them after another. We aren't saying anything but our hearts are feeling so much for this family and they way in which it is being treated. I am writing now because I wouldn't want them to think we haven't noticed their universe has been so severely disturbed and we care very much about how they are being treated. We are getting a very clear picture of how much we are valued as the ordinary citizen. What Murdoch thinks about Howard is more important than righting these outrageous wrongs. Apologies are pointless. This treatment of our citizens is untenable. This increase in a family's grief is untenable. We accept and understand the army may have to be careful about what it says and does because it is on active operations, that part of it is acceptable. The rest is plain callous. Our government is rather short on good human relations.