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Ted Chitham
DHAAT – RCB Update: Advance to Contact
Recall the DHAAT Tribunal Hearing video on the 23 November 2022 and the access to all submissions. And note the critical reporting by News Limited media's Charles Miranda titled ADF defend pretext to war for 9000 veterans and the Channel 9 TV Program A Current...
AUSTRALIA DAY 2023 – Proud of our Country and our Flag
The Seeker’s inspired us all then and still do today with their iconic hit song “I am Australian” Enjoy the day, and despite the various daily challenges in our home, work, and social lives; celebrate our unique way of life, away from the world’s many conflicts...
Opinion: A New Ally Looms for Deserving Veterans
AUSTRALIA’S enduring relationship with the Malaysian Kingdom, forged through decades of war and peace remains largely unknown and unremarked in our national consciousness. Yet generations of Australian servicemen and women have served there, while thousands gave...
A Current Affair – War Veterans Battle for Recognition 30 years on
In tonight's TV Channel 9 programme A Current Affair, in the third item Ray Fulcher and Graeme Mickleberg outline the RCB claim for warlike service which is based on irrefutable evidence discovered in their search for the truth See the program video here Note it is...
RCB Recognition of Service – on TV Channel 9: A Current Affair at 7.00 pm Tuesday 20 December 2022
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...
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...