Media Release Minister for Veterans’ Affairs 29 May 2016 Australia will welcome home 33 Australian service personnel and dependents, including 22 Vietnam War veterans, on Thursday, 2 June in one of the largest, single military repatriations in this country’s history. The returning Australians, 21 Vietnam veterans, three servicemen and eight dependents, had been interred at Terendak […]
Once a proud young soldier standing on parade Now a homeless nomad shivering in icy rain Cold concrete for a mattress and a newspaper blanket newly made Sleep broken with blinking frames of past horror, agony and pain Another patriot bound for war bid his wife and children adieu […]
The Australian Federation of Totally and Permanently Incapacitated Ex-Servicemen & Women (TPI), is petitioning the Prime Minister to restore the economic loss component of the Veteran’s Special Rate (SR) and TPI compensation payments to 100% of the tax adjusted minimum wage. There are two categories of compensation for Disabled Veterans, those who are fully able […]
The Minister for Veterans’ Affairs and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Centenary of ANZAC, Dan Tehan, today officially opened the Vietnam Veterans’ Association of Australia’s 2016 National Congress in Canberra. Mr Tehan paid tribute to the some 60,000 Australians who served their country in the Vietnam War from 1962 until 1975. “Australia suffered […]
May 26, 2016 8:27am ROSS EASTGATE Townsville Bulletin IT’S cold comfort for some Australian veterans but this week a British parliamentary report recommended Lariam be used as an antimalarial drug only in very restricted cases. Produced by Swiss pharmaceutical conglomerate Roche, Lariam is the brand name for mefloquine, a known neurotoxin which has also been trialled […]
Sebastian Junger an American war reporter of 15 years of experience reporting on combat in Iraq and Afghanistan returns home to experience a panic episode that reveals he has a problem. “Later, I found out that what I had was short-term PTSD: post-traumatic stress disorder. We evolved as animals, as primates, to survive periods of danger, […]
A Changing Nation. True to Alvin Toffler’s “Future Shock”, the world is changing at a rapid pace. In my view, we have been found wanting in our ability to cope. Our so called democracy is slowly but surely being eroded. Those thought police listening, watching, waiting and ticking squares are becoming more of reality each […]
The Hon Dan Tehan MP On Thursday, 2 June 2016 Australia will welcome home 33 Australian service personnel and dependents, many of whom were casualties of the Vietnam War, from cemeteries in Malaysia and Singapore. It will be one of the largest single repatriations of Australian service men and dependents in Australia’s history. In May […]
May 19, 2016 ROSS EASTGATE – Townsville Bulletin MILITARY pensioners who can afford such luxuries as daily newspapers may have read reports detailing retiring federal MPs’ superannuation payments. One report suggested more than 30 Coalition MPs are entitled to indexed annual pensions starting around $200,000. Nice work if you can get it and of course those […]
Brigadier “Jake” Ellwood DSC has been appointed replacing Brigadier Chris Field who is now the 3 Brigade Commander. Brigadier Justin (Jake) Ellwood graduated to the Royal Australian Infantry Corps in 1990. He has since served in a number of Regimental appointments within 2/4 RAR and 5/7 RAR. His instructional postings have included appointments as […]
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Gallipoli Medical Research Foundation (GMRF) is now calling for participants for its next study, as part of the Veteran Mental Health Initiative. This study will focus on understanding the process of reintegration and psychological adjustment to civilian life following military service. The study is seeking ex-service personnel that have discharged from the military in the […]
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