Blackhawk helicopters collide at military training area Townsville 1996, killing 15 SAS soldiers and three from Fifth Aviation Regiment

July 14, 2017

Former Australian Liberal Prime Minister John Howard was critical of Donald Trump seven months into his first term of the American presidency in 2017 claiming he would not have voted for Trump, essentially because the newly elected billionaire was a non-conformist and not a member of the Washington clique.

PM Howard, by coincidence was in New York when the CIA and Mossad allegedly took down the Twin Towers with explosives on September 11, 2001.

Trump’s insistence that Europe pay the US for decades of defence expenditure got approval from Howard but when pressed why he didn’t like Trump, he said it was because his style would not please a lot of Americans and that criticism of Trump from newly elected President of France Emmanuel Macron was irrelevant because Macron first had to earn some stripes.

“I trembled at the thought (of a Trump presidency),” Howard said.

“I am by nature a supporter of the Republican side.

“I didn’t like his attack on free trade,” Howard pointed out, being an avid disciple of Adam Smith, a Scottish economist and philosopher, whose principles are to deregulate all trade between countries. Liberals and Labor foolishly went down this path leaving Australia as the only country in the world which removed almost all tariffs on international goods entering the country much to the detriment of our once thriving manufacturing industries and car makers, which no longer exist.

Howard condemned Trump’s attacks on the intelligence services after signalling he would release files on CIA treachery particularly in relation to the killing of President John F Kennedy.

Perhaps the retired PM could be wary about Trump’s possible release of the CIA’s involvement in Australia particularly the sacking of the anti-Vietnam war, Whitlam Labor government in 1975 or clandestine US involvement in the Port Arthur massacre in 1996 when two military men shot 35 innocent holiday makers and intelligence operatives at Port Arthur in Tasmania with precision military accuracy.

This operation paved the way for John Howard to take more than one million firearms from law-abiding gun owners, effectively disarming Australia of semi-automatic firearms which could have been utilised against foreign invaders.

Australian police records of this terrible Port Arthur psychological operation have been sealed for 75 years.

Then two months after the Port Arthur incident during training for counter-terrorism operations on the night of June 12, 1996, two Australian Army Black Hawk helicopters collided over Dotswood Station west of Townsville in the military Field Training Area. 

As a result of the accident, there were 18 fatalities in total; 15 from the Special Air Service Regiment and three from the 5th Aviation Regiment. 

This accident left those independent investigators of the Port Arthur massacre in a quandary as dead soldiers tell no tales.

Some years ago Cairns News was told of additional information about the contributing factors to this tragic accident.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3637334/Black-Hawk-tragedy-Retired-pilot-remembers-crash-June-1996.html

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  1. Benjamin Overbeake of the Tasmania Special Forces or SAS was one of the shooters at Port Arthur, he is the one pictured in the Ambulance or car I can’t remember which it is, I believe he was the one inside the Cafe, his brother who’s first name I can’t recall but it can’t be found online was also SAS and believed to be involved. Benjamin Overbeake was one of the men the died in the Blackhawk crash, which was in my and many others opinion a “cover our asses” situation in which anyone with inside knowledge of Port Arthur was double crossed or killed, there was reports of a man standing up before the shooting in the Cafe and saying loudly NO NOT HERE, as the story goes the original plan was to do it on the Ferry/Boat ride, so that most of the inside knowledge people would of been in and around the Cafe and avoided the boat, the shooters told to go to the cafe and probably didn’t even know of the other operatives potentially. Then the blackhawk crash was the rest of anyone who was involved directly and there on the day. There is loads of directly correlated evidence to prove this.

  2. Andrew,
    Was Howard in New York to get an American award for Pine Gap?

    On January 1, 2019, the National Archives of Australia published a set of heavily redacted Commonwealth cabinet papers dealing with a decision by the National Security Committee of the Howard coalition government in September 1997 to allow the establishment of a Joint Australia-United States Relay Ground Station (RGS) at Pine Gap to support two United States early warning satellite systems in place of its predecessor, the Joint Space Communications Facility at Nurrungar.1
    There is a PDF at:
    The Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability
    Hiding from the light:
    The establishment of the Joint Australia-United States Relay Ground Station at Pine Gap
    Richard Tanter

    I was at Melbourne Airport that day,in 1996, returning from Europe. I recall an Alitalia flight to Europe, being delayed for some passengers arriving on a QANTAS flight from Hobart. Later, I wondered if they had been at Port Arthur?

    It would be nice to see a few more treasonous Australian prime ministers in the hot seat?

  3. I didn’t vote for Howard! I remember a newspaper cartoon, with Fraser in a trench in combat gear with a few other pollies at the time. He was holding a rifle with a the bayonet. lifting little Johnny above the parapet of the trench and asking, “Is it clear yet?” In the mean time, I am wondering if this is true?

    Australia. Canada. Pacific Islands. will be under the USA Kingdom. as in the biblical times

    For your consideration and own research

    There are to be 7 Kingdoms. Kings that will control the militaries across the Earth. The masses will have limited Republic Governments in their respected countries. No more Communist. Socialist. Marxist Governments of any kind. Countries will become Republics. The Kings of those territorial Kingdoms will be sure these governments operate in the manner and the oath that they were elected for BY THE PEOPLE. OF THE PEOPLE. FOR THE PEOPLE. If not. A system of their removal is in place. Not to mention dire consequences. 🕊️ https://t.me/americanpatriotus/17254

    The 7 kingdoms will be part of the USA 🇺🇸. He also agrees with me about this. We just didn’t know how it would become public. Or how it would be made official. Australia was listed on the US Stock Exchange. And that it was taken over by the Republic (the real one) the exchange was privately owned. Just like the Federal Reserve was and it also transferred to the Treasury Department or the Republic (real one). The USMCA was the start of this process. I believe it was section 25.3. < this was from memory so don’t bash me if it’s off just a bit. That started the outline of responsibility in the agreement. For North America 🇺🇸 becoming all part of the USA. Wake up and know it’s all happening and the last of the power struggle is exposing themselves in their rebellion against the people of the Republic. You are the Republic We The People, not the government.

    Capt@CaptKylePatriots https://t.me/CaptKylePatriots/254742

  4. re: the very large font youtube link added above
    My friend bought the Daily Telegraph that post-massacre day, I happened to be in Sydney, and we were marvelling how they made Martin Bryant’s eyes demonic yellow, his face took up the whole front page

  5. The following are my thoughts about the matter.
    I am becoming more and more cynical with old age, and I wonder if the Port Arthur massacre and the Blackhawk crash were not in some way connected. The Blackhawk crash could have been accidental or it could have been deliberate. I have to admit I know little detail of either event, except as reported or misreported in the media. If, as has been suggested, the Port Arthur killings could only have been carried out by two trained military personnel, where did they come from? In Australia, the SAS springs to mind for precision military operations. Could the Blackhawk crash, which involved SAS personnel, then have something to do with ‘closing the book’ on Port Arthur, in similar fashion to the death of Lee Harvey Oswald in the JFK assassination? Only musings, but false flag operations are ‘de rigeur’ in most governments today.

  6. Fed Up!
    December 31, 2024 at 1:05 pm
    Port Arthur shooting April 28th 1996
    Black Hawk crash near Townsville June 12th 1996
    Bill and Hillary Clinton visit Australia Nov 19th – 23rd Nov 1996
    Howard wary that Trump could release CIA files
    I’d say more like ‘shitting bricks’
    —————
    Very interesting indeed Fed Up and thank you for that info !
    As I said before >
    So many ‘trusting members of the public’ fail to take this action in so many things that are allegedly thrust in their faces by politicians / MSM et al.. AND that action being TO QUESTION EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE, EVERYTIME.
    All people must have a thirst for knowledge and above all, a thirst for the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Question Everything.
    >

  7. Port Arthur shooting April 28th 1996

    Black Hawk crash near Townsville June 12th 1996

    Bill and Hillary Clinton visit Australia Nov 19th – 23rd Nov 1996

    Howard wary that Trump could release CIA files

    I’d say more like ‘shitting bricks’

  8. & of Harold Holt?? We’re all of a singular opinion. No wonder the gun possession rate has vastly increased.

  9. It is nmore probably that politicians in Australia have concerns about what Trump may release about them.

  10. Australia’s inability to finance homes for the homeless who are increasing at around 10,000 per month could mean that Australia becomes integrated into the United States in the near future.

    “…………Donald Trump’s most notable contribution to world politics since his re-election as US president has been stirring the pot with audacious comments: annexing Canada, buying Greenland, and reclaiming the Panama Canal. These remarks have sparked retaliatory statements from governments, a flurry of internet humor, and even some thoughtful analysis.

    While most observers dismiss these musings as an attempt to emotionally destabilize negotiating partners — a hypothesis supported by Trump’s grumblings over Western Europe’s energy purchases from the US — there’s a deeper layer worth exploring. Beyond the entertainment value (and let’s admit, we all need some lighthearted headlines amidst global tensions), Trump’s provocations might just be making a larger point: state sovereignty is no longer the unshakable concept we once believed it to be……………..”

    https://www.theinteldrop.org/2024/12/28/biden-2-0-neocon-puppet-trumps-talk-on-taking-canada-highlights-the-demise-of-this-critical-political-concept/

    h ttps://www.mondaq.com/australia/crime/1561792/rough-sleeping-surges-nationwide-as-authorities-continue-to-criminalise-homelessness?email_access=on

  11. At least that crash got a Royal Commission, in fact that crash got TWO Royal Commissions. – However, the Port Arthur Massacre was denied having even one Royal Commission.

  12. Editor, cairnsnews says –
    December 30, 2024 at 9:39 pm
    Wrong Kev you forget we had a lot of contact with Keith when he was writing his books and assisted with his family and property he was left at Tully.

    The information I presented was taken from information written by Andrew MacGregor a retired Australian police officer and investigative reporter who did a speaking tour of Australia with Wendy Scurr –

    ONE HELL OF A COVER UP
    Wendy Scurr November 29, 1999
    Wendy Scurr (nurse and survivor) writes:-
    “I have read Joe Vialls book, I was heavily involved in the Massacre itself, I was working at Port Arthur. I know that what Mr Vialls is stating is true and that the official version is one hell of a cover up. The video footage is one issue, the time factor is another, why did it take police 6hrs. to arrive except for one policeman at 4.30pm and two female officers at 5.30pm to control over 500 people and 5 major crime scenes. There many other issues to be considered. But it is one huge coverup.”

    (2474) Aussie 9/11 “Port Arthur Massacre” by Andrew MacGregor – Part 2 – YouTube

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQuK9YoohPA&t=37s

    ……………….

    Port Arthur First on the Scene Wendy Scurr Speaks at Inverell Free Speech Conference PT 1 – YouTube

    https://youtu.be/Ote-_NVckPw

    I doubt that Wendy Scurr would have gone on a speaking tour with Andrew MacGregor if he was telling all lies as you infer.

  13. > Oh & by the way I ponder if the ADF soldier spotted in the ambo

    Hmm. So if we have the list of SAS soldiers, I wonder if the mug in the ambo matches any of them. But they could have gotten someone external to do the dirty work as I shudder to think of an SAS soldier killing innocent Aussies.

  14. They took a million guns…since then there are 4 million more registered firearms in this country and no one knows how many guns are out there that are unregistered, for a rainy day…

    Look up the law that allows Freemasons to carry PROHIBITED weapons…like a fully automatic AK47 or a cannon etc. Another allows them to execute their own members. It is all rigged, the system, by them, for them and is absolutely against you.

  15. It is very clear little flak jacket Johnny is in panic mode from President Trump. When Trump releases the Mossad files on the JFK murder & 9/11 you think he would give a stuff about little Freemason Johnny ? Let’s not forget little John’s 90 years suppression order on his 28 mates🕷️. 💀🍿enjoy the show. Oh & by the way I ponder if the ADF soldier spotted in the ambo at Port Arthur was in one of the Blackhawks that had a split pin in the foot peddles left unclipped ? Not a secret anymore for years. The maintenance crews talk about it all the time.

  16. Andrew

    I am sorry to read about the loss of your friend, Mick Baker

    I have posted the list of The Australian Soldiers names below and I’m sure Modern Soldier will not mind as each and every one of them have a family member that is still grieving their loss.

    When will people wake up to our filthy corporation politicians

    Modern Soldier
    11 June 2019 ·
    Today we stop and mourn the 18 men – 15 SASR soldiers and three crew – who died in the midair collision of two 5th Aviation Regiment Black Hawk helicopters while on exercise on Townsville’s High Range on 12 June 1996. One Black Hawk crashed immediately, killing 12 personnel on board, while the other was able to make a crash landing but burst into flames, killing six. Crash survivors, soldiers from the other helicopters and exercise staff risked the flames and exploding ammunition to rescue their comrades and retrieve the bodies of the dead. Fourteen personnel were later officially recognised for their part in the rescue and evacuation operation. The names of the dead are:
    Captain Timothy J. Stevens
    Sergeant Hugh W. Ellis
    Corporal Michael Bird
    Corporal Andrew Constantinidis
    Corporal Darren R. Oldham
    Corporal Brett S. Tombs
    Lance Corporal Gordon A. Callow
    Lance Corporal Glen O. Hagan
    Lance Corporal David J. Johnstone
    Trooper Jonathon G. Church
    Trooper David Frost
    Trooper Timothy J. Mcdonald
    Corporal Mihran “Avi” Avedissian
    Corporal Darren J. Smith
    Signalman Hendrik “Rick” Peeters
    Captain KJ Hales
    Captain JB Berrigan
    Corporal MC Baker
    May you all rest in eternal peace. Thank you for your service.

    Credit: Modern Soldier

  17. I am sure the CIA knows all about that ZOG black-op at Port Arthur 1996. Disarming the Australian population was right up there on the ‘List of Things To Do’ for the Communist Takeover.

  18. I lost a friend, Mick Baker, in the crash. He was a loadmaster. Does anyone know why Howard was in New York that day? He was getting an award from the Americans. I wonder what he did for the Americans to deserve an American award?

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