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In a nutshell our campaign is to have the Rifle Company Butterworth (RCB)’s service recognised as warlike. The Government, despite the facts discovered since its original decision, says its non-warlike service similar to peacetime garrison duty in Australia.
We have provided evidence of a deception that has denied 9,000 Australian troops and their families certain entitlements to repatriation benefits.
In 1970 RCB was deployed to protect the RAAF assets (aircraft, facilities, servicemen and women and their families) at the Air Base Butterworth Malaysia from 1970 to 1989 at the time when Malaysia was fighting its Counter Insurgency War (1968-1989) against the resurgent communist terrorists.
Media's Right to Know Campaign. When the Government hides the truth from you what are they covering up? The front pages of every major newspaper were censored this morning as part of Australia's Right to Know campaign which is calling for greater protections for...
Background The evidentiary facts that the RCB Review Group obtained from the Australian Government and the Malaysian Governments’ own records and presented to our Government proves that RCB’s operational deployment (1970-1989) to protect the RAAF assets at Air Base...
Minister, we offer our congratulations to you on our Government’s decision to commission an independent inquiry to examine the information provided by scheme administrators and relevant departments to members of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits (DFRDB)...
Persistence, Perseverance and Patience. The Minister has agreed to meet with the RCB RG in Canberra on the 26th and the 27th November 2018. The first meeting is with the Minister's Defence Advisor and Defence Department staff and the second meeting with the Minister....
As a veteran of almost 48 yrs military service, the last 24 of which I served as a Chaplain , I must raise my grave concerns about the morality of the treatment of our veterans by ADF and Government officials in their continuing rejection of the substantive evidence...
In the Senate Question Time yesterday, 18th September, Senator Fraser Anning (Katter’ s Australian Party) asked Sen. Marise Payne three questions on RCB Service recognition as warlike during the Malaysian Counter Insurgency War. We thank Senator Anning for his...
Minister for Veterans’ Affairs and Defence Personnel, Darren Chester MP continues to refuse to recognise the valuable service of the Australian Army’s troops deployed as Rifle Company Butterworth, during Malaysia’s Counter Insurgency War (1969 -1989) (aka the Second...
In its letter to Prime Minister Turnbull, The Defence Force Welfare Association President Kel Ryan "calls on the Government to appoint an independent arbitrator to review the recognition of the RCB during the period 1970 to 1989 as warlike and Qualifying Service. RCB...
Yesterday, Friday 13th July the RCBRG sent the following to those named and all politicians in the belief that they as evidence based decision makers will read the facts of the matters themselves and act to have the Government's decision reversed or to recommend the...
In this Update we track our progress within the Government's complaint process ("inside the tent") to our latest submission to the Ombudsman. Failing in that course to influence the Government to appoint an independent public inquiry we are prepared to move to direct...