The video of the first Hearing of the Defence Honours and Awards Tribunal and the Report of it by Charles Miranda has aroused the Australian public's interest in this David and Goliath like struggle, now in its 17th year, of the RCB veterans challenge to Defence to...
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Malaysia: Cherishing our hard won peace 33 years after the end of the communist insurgency
This article by Raymond Goh captures the history of Communist activities in Malaya/Malaysia from the end of the Second World War in 1945 until the end of the insurgency in 1989, Of importance to RCB veterans is the reporting of the "Second" Emergency in the context of...
RCB: DHAAT Hearing 23 November 2022 – Video
See the video here Current submissions can be seen here The Tribunal has allowed additional submissions before the next Hearing in early 2023
The Home Front: Our Vets’ Never-ending War Within
THE HOME FRONT documentary by Patrick Lindsay explores the plight of Australia’s modern war veterans, taking viewers on a journey of discovery into a world all too often filled with darkness, depression, PTSD, homelessness and suicide. The film allows our...
ADF defend pretext to war for 9000 veterans
News Limited media's Charles Miranda reports that Defence has copped a battering over how and why it sent 9000 troops to Malaysia during a Communist terrorist insurgency more than 30 years ago with serious implications for future deployments today. The Defence Honours...
Defence Honours and Awards Appeals Tribunal – Rifle Company Butterworth Inquiry – Hearings this week
The first hearing for the Tribunal’s inquiry into medallic recognition for service with Rifle Company Butterworth will be held in Canberra this week. It will be livestreamed from our website https://defence-honours-tribunal.gov.au from 9.30 on Wednesday. At around...
RCB: An Injustice that must be fixed
This article appeared in the Editorial of The Sydney Saturday Telegraph 22 October 2022 RCB-This-Must-be-Fixed-Download
Courier Mail article – War They Tried to Keep Secret
At last a national media organisation, News Limited media's Charles Miranda, has exposed publicly in the Courier Mail and the Townsville Bulletin the facts of the Australian Army's Rifle Company Butterworth deployments (1970-1989) to protect the RAAF assets...
War memorial caught in the crossfire
With three explosive sentences, Australian War Memorial Council chairman Brendan Nelson has unleashed a fierce culture war over how best to exhibit the history of frontier violence. READ MORE After reading the article you may want to consider the petition organised...
URGENT REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE
The Australian newspaper is doing a follow up story on the DHAAT inquiry this weekend. They want a photo for the story, preferably of a group of us RCB veterans. The photo shoot will be done at Ray Fulcher's house in Wulguru, Townsville. Date and time to be confirmed...