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ADVOCACY: MILITARY SUPERANNUATION PENSIONS |
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| "FAIR GO" DONATIONS UPDATE AS AT 26 JULY DONATE NOW - DIG DEEP DIGGERS! |
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TV: ABC FOUR CORNERS. A Careful War - Part One: The first of two ground-level reports into Australias engagement in Afghanistan. Broadcast: 5 July. |
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THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN REGIMENT ASSOCIATION (QLD) INC & THE ARMY BAND BRISBANE Presents a “Military & Legacy Family & Friends” Picnic At THE NATIONAL MEMORIAL WALK (Lavarack Parade, Gallipoli Barracks) ENOGGERA On Sunday 22nd August |
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| 'ARMY' THE SOLDIERS' NEWSPAPER - 8 JULY EDITION Your fortnightly online copy of Army, the soldiers’ newspaper, is now available. • TRIBUTES TO WARRIORS: The lives and sacrifice of three commandoes killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan have been honoured at memorial services. Meanwhile, seven commandos seriously wounded in the June 21 accident arrived back in Australia on July 2 for further treatment. • DUTCH DEADLINE: The Netherlands’ partnership with Australia in Uruzgan province, Afghanistan, will come to an end on August 1. The Dutch commander says from 2007, Task Force Uruzgan’s efforts, in cooperation with Australia, produced some major achievements. • TROPHY CHALLENGE: More than 180 3RAR soldiers took part in one of the year’s toughest activities, the annual Opie Trophy, a section-level competition pitting the Sydney-based soldiers against each other and the elements in a bid to win champion section. • HOME BASES: The training of soldiers Army-wide has been enhanced by the construction of two patrol bases at Townsville Field Training Area designed to provide realistic training facilities that replicate areas of operations Australian forces are deployed to in Afghanistan. • GENERAL FAREWELLED: A distinguished gunner was farewelled with a military funeral at the RMC Chapel on June 24. Maj-Gen John Whitelaw, a former Deputy Chief of the General Staff, died in Canberra on June 18. |
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| NORTHERN SERVICES COURIER - 8 JULY EDITION | 6 JUL |
| ANOTHER WARRIOR HIS DUTY DONE: 5955 WARRANT-OFFICER CLASS 2 LAURENCE GEORGE FLETCHER, EX-2RAR | 4 JUL |
| AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL NEWS - JULY EDITION | 3 JUL |
| LATEST NEWS: DEFENCE FORCE PENSIONERS THREATEN TO ABANDON LABOR A coalition government would increase veteran pensions in a move to win the support of the veteran community. Opposition Leader Tony Abbott and opposition defence and veterans spokespeople said the coalition would legislate for new indexation arrangements for Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Scheme (DFRDB) members as part of its commitment to supporting veterans and ex-service personnel. Mr Abbott said that from July 1, 2011 DFRDB members aged 55 years or older would have their military superannuation pensions raised by the greater increase of either the Consumer Price Index (CPI) male total average weekly earnings (MTAWE) or the Pensioner and Beneficiary Living Cost Index (PBLCI). |
28 JUN |
| FAIR GO: DIG DEEP DIGGERS! We need your donations to support the ‘FAIR GO’ Campaign. George Mansford has given us the Fund's Appeal slogan - DIG DEEP DIGGERS!. We need about $80,000: which we aim to get from donations and other revenue raising means. All donations will be receipted, (unfortunately not tax deductible). Please donate! | 27 JUN |
DFWA WELCOMES THE COALITION UNDERTAKES TO REMOVE DISCRIMINATION IN ADF SUPERANNUATION INDEXATION ARRANGEMENTS |
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| FUNERAL: 1731683 PRIVATE VIVIAN JOHN NEHOW, EX-2RAR | 24 JUN |
| DONATE: VIETNAM VETERANS COMMEMORATIVE WALK - SEYMOUR, VIC | 23 JUN |
| GEN MACDONALD: HISTORICAL LINK BETWEEN RAR AND 2/15 INF BN (EXTRACT) VISIT: 2/15 INF BN WEBSITE READ COMPLETE MAGAZINE (SEE FRONT COVER PHOTOGRAPH & CAPTION) |
23 JUN |
| ANOTHER WARRIOR HIS DUTY DONE: STAN HORNE, EX-8RAR | 22 JUN |
| ANOTHER WARRIOR HIS DUTY DONE: NX42488/1988 WARRANT OFFICER CLASS 2 STANLEY (BOMBER) BOMBELL, EX-3RAR, 2RAR, 1RAR | 20 JUN |
| NEWSLETTER: AUSTRALIAN VIETNAM VOLUNTEERS RESOURCE GROUP - JUNE EDITION | 17 JUN |
| HELP: The Gold Coast Local Studies Library has asked for help in identifying Viet Vets (see attached pix) who marched on ANZAC Day 1978 in Coolangatta QLD. If you can help please phone 07 5581 7217 or eMail: lslibrary@goldcoast.qld.gov.au | 16 JUN |
| ANOTHER WARRIOR HIS DUTY DONE: 51251 PRIVATE HERBERT (BILL) HEISE, EX-3RAR | 16 JUN |
| THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY 2010 HONOURS LIST | 14 JUN |
| DFWA WELCOMES THE OFFER TO WORK WITH ESOs TO SOLVE THE INDEXATION DILEMMA The DFWA, along with its other Ex-Service Organisations (ESO) partners, welcomes the Government’s offer to work with ESOs to determine the best long term method for indexing military superannuation pensions. |
12 JUN |
| NEWS: COMMANDOS MAY FACE CIVIL COURT THE chief military prosecutor will open the way for Australian soldiers accused of killing six Afghan civilians to be charged and tried in a civilian court. The Age has been told that the Director of Military Prosecutions will present Defence Force Chief Angus Houston with several options, one of which is the prosecution of five commandos involved in a raid in which the civilians were killed. Of numerous Defence sources and historians consulted by The Age, not one could recall an instance in which an Australian soldier was charged over the death of civilians in a theatre of conflict. More Defence News |
5 JUN |
| LEN THOMPSON’S 8RAR BUSH MEMORIAL | 4 JUN |
| DVD: THE BATTLE OF FIRE SUPPORT BASE CORAL, VIETNAM 1968 | 29 MAY |
| THE NATIONAL SERVICE MEMORIAL AT THE AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL IN CANBERRA WILL BE DEDICATED ON WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2010. The National Council of the National Servicemen's Association of Australia Incorporated and the Council of the Australian War Memorial have approved a fountain set in its own precinct on the Eastern side of the main entrance to the Australian War Memorial. Work began just after ANZAC Day 2009 and will be completed before ANZAC Day 2010. The Memorial honours the 212 National Servicemen who died on active service—two in Borneo and 210 in Vietnam—and commemorates the 287,000 young men called up in two schemes between 1951 and 1972 for service in the Royal Australian Navy, the Australian Army and the Royal Australian Air Force. Latest information: The National Servicemen's Association | 27 MAY |
| A FITTING TRIBUTE TO A 4RAR WARRIOR We received this exciting news from Noel Balzer, B Coy, SVN first tour. "A short note to tell you about a street to be named after Raymond 'Blue' McGuire. It will be in a new subdivision at Ingleburn Gardens (the old Ingleburn Army barracks area) in Sydney." |
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TOWNSVILLE'S 2RAR reconnaissance platoon members had the chance to learn tactics from the best this week. During their breaking contact practice drills they were supervised and advised by Vietnam veterans Michael von Berg, Bill Harvey and Trevor Cheeseman. Mr von Berg was the commander of the first Australian army recon platoon to be formed. |
21 MAY |
DVD: TIMOR TOUR OF DUTY 4RAR 2001. A FILM BY SASHA UZUNOV |
19 MAY |
| RAR ASSOCIATION QLD UPDATE ON EVENTS TOWNSVILLE AREA | 18 MAY |
MIDDLE EAST PEACEKEEPING SERVICE UPGRADE WELCOMED. The National President of the Australian Peacekeeper & Peacemaker Veterans’ Association (APPVA), Mr David Penson, CSM, welcomed the Rudd Government’s decision to reclassify service to the United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation (UNTSO), Australian Army United Nations Military Observers (UNMO), also known as OPERATION PALLADIN, who were involved in the Lebanese-Israeli war of July to August 2006, from non-warlike service to warlike Service. |
16 MAY |
| POEM: 'THE GHOSTS OF CANUNGRA' - GEORGE MANSFORD © MARCH 2010 | 16 MAY |
| DVA: RENOVATION WORK AT TERENDAK MILITARY CEMETERY The Terendak Military Cemetery is situated within the perimeter of Terendak Camp, Malacca, an operating military base. The Cemetery is currently undergoing extensive renovation work and there may be a disruption to those intending to visit the Cemetery. Visitors should first check with the Australian Embassy, Malaysia, before booking travel, and are reminded of the strict procedures to be followed before visiting the cemetery. |
5 MAY |
| PHOTOGRAPHS: 8 RAR ASSOCIATION NATIONAL REUNION GLENELG SA 2010 | 18 APR |
| QUADRANT ONLINE: ANZAC IN ASHES BY MERVYN F. BENDLE It is a measure of the authors’ (Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds (eds.), What’s Wrong With Anzac?: The Militarisation of Australian History (WWWA). Sydney: New South Books, 2010) generally mendacious approach and their devotion to the antiwar movement that Lake repeats claims that the well-known practice of protesters spitting on Vietnam veterans in the Sixties is “simply a new myth” of the militarists (p.13). In fact, as Paul Ham documents in Vietnam: The Australian War (2007), antiwar protesters did frequently spit on veterans, and did many other disgusting things as well, including harassing and ostracizing their wives and girlfriends. One veteran describes a large group of protesters who “make a rush for us. They yell at us with obscene language, calling us killers of little Vietnamese children, murderers, and that we should be in jail … The next thing I know a large gob of spit hits my left cheek”; while a young female protester screamed at a crippled veteran: “Did you fall over chasing after a Vietnamese woman whilst trying to rape her?”; and others carried placards denouncing the veterans as ‘Child Killers’, etc. Overall, the ordinary veteran was “treated as little more than a common criminal, the target of actual social hatred” (pp.560-4). Lake must know these things happened and yet she repeats the claim that all this is “yet another myth to add to the mountain of soldier worship myths this country groans under” (WWWA, p.14). Quadrant Website version |
10 APR |
| VETERANS’ ACCESS TO INFLUENZA VACCINE: WEF 1 MARCH | 10 APR |
| HELP: INFORMATION ON MATT LOCATIONS PHUOC TUY PROVINCE | 6 APR |
| POEM: 'NEW GENERATION VETERANS' BY DAVID J DELANEY | 19 MAR |
| DVA E-NEWS: EDITION 1/2010 | 18 MAR |
| DFWA CURRENT ISSUES: RELEASE OF SERVICE RECORDS BY THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES | 15 MAR |
| 'DO NOT CALL REGISTER' ABOUT TO EXPIRE - ABC NEWS People who listed their telephone numbers on the Do Not Call Register when it first launched are being reminded to re-register. The list, for people who did not want to receive calls from telemarketers, was launched in May 2007 by the Australian Communications and Media Authority and it is only valid for three years. More than one million numbers were listed initially and there are now more than 4.3 million numbers on the register. Telephone numbers can be registered by phoning 1300 792 958 or at the official web site at www.donotcall.gov.au |
9 MAR |
| AVVRG LONG TAN/VIETNAM TREK TOUR - OCTOBER | 3 MAR |
| BOOK PROJECT: RAY SIMPSON, VC, DCM | 27 FEB |
| “HOLDFAST” – THE NEWSLETTER OF THE VIETNAM TUNNEL RATS ASSOCIATION | 9 FEB |
AUSTRALIA DAY 2010 HONOURS LIST (COMPLETE) |
26 JAN |
| RIFLEMENS' LUNCH MOOLOOLABA SURF CLUB - GREAT AFTERNOON | 10 JAN |
| RIFLE COMPANY BUTTERWORTH REVIEW | |
BOOK: PURE MASSACRE - AUSSIE SOLDIERS REFLECT ON THE RWANDAN GENOCIDE, BY KEVIN O'HALLORAN. |
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| BOOK: THE GREY EIGHT IN FOCUS” [8 RAR UNIT PICTORIAL] | |
| BOOK: VIETNAM ON CANVAS, KEN MCFADYEN: AN ARTIST AT WAR, BY SANDRA LEE | |
| BOOK: AUSSIE SOLDIER PRISONERS OF WAR | |
| BOOK: 3 RAR IN SOUTH VIETNAM ’67 – ‘68 (RE-PRINT) - ORDER FORM | |
| CD: RAR 60TH ANNIVERSARY REGIMENTAL MARCHES 2008 | |
| SLIDESHOW: RICK HOLLINGDRAKE'S KOKODA TREK - AUGUST 2009 | |
| SLIDESHOW: 2RAR ASSOCIATION ANNUAL REUNION - 31 OCTOBER 2009 | |
SLIDESHOW: RAR ASSOCIATION (QLD)/LEGACY CONCERT - 13 SEPTEMBER 2009 |
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| SLIDESHOW: KOREA VETERANS' DAY - BRISBANE 2009 | |
| SLIDESHOW: 60TH ANNIVERSARY, VICTORIA BARRACKS, SYDNEY 2008 | |
| SLIDESHOW: THE BATTLE OF LONG TAN (MS POWERPOINT) | |
| WEBSITE: 40 YEARS AGO, LAND-MINES WREAKED CARNAGE ON VIETNAM DIGGERS | |
| WEBSITE: MURRAGULDRIE, NSW VETERANS RETREAT - VVAA | |
| WEBSITE: THE QUEENSLAND WAR MEMORIAL REGISTER | |
| WEBSITE: YOUNG DIGGERS | |
| THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN REGIMENT HONOUR ROLL 1948 - 2010 | |
| NOMINAL ROLL OF VETERANS OF WW 1, WW 2, KOREA, VIETNAM, & GULF WAR | |
| NOMINAL ROLL OF NEW ZEALAND VETERANS OF VIETNAM NEW ZEALAND ROLL OF HONOUR (VIETNAM) |
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| AUSTRALIAN HONOURS LISTS | |
| DEFENCE HONOURS AND AWARDS | |
| AUSTRALIAN HONOURS AND AWARDS | |
| APPLICATION FOR ISSUE OR REPLACEMENT OF ADF MEDALS AND/OR AWARDS | |
| INFANTRY COMBAT BADGE (ICB) | |
| ARMY COMBAT BADGE (ACB): DEFENCE INSTRUCTIONS (ARMY) 2009 | |
| AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE MEDAL (ADM) APPLICATION | |
| NATIONAL SERVICE 1951-1972 MEDAL (ANSM) APPLICATION | |
| PINGAT JASA MALAYSIA (PJM) APPLICATION | |
| EAST TIMOR SOLIDARITY MEDAL (ELIGIBILITY) | |
| PHOTO GALLERIES OF THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN REGIMENT NATIONAL MEMORIAL WALK ENOGGERA, QLD |
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