Prime Minister of Australia Julia Gillard speaks to the media regarding the Australian soldiers killed in Afganistan, during the Pacific Islands Forum at the Edgewarter Hotye on Rarotonga in Avarua in the Cook Islands on August 29, 2012. Five Australian troops have been killed in two separate incidents in Afghanistan, defence officials said, in the worst day for Australian casualties since the war started.            AFP PHOTO / Marty Melville