The Australian Government’s primary responsibility is to keep our nation safe from those who seek to do us harm, both internally and externally. The Government’s decision to exclude permanent members Mike Burgess the current Director-General of Security in...
WELCOME TO OUR RECOGNITION OF RCB CAMPAIGN
Hello and thanks for visiting.
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.
Opinion: Labor’s National Security Kowtow a Win for Beijing
The Albanese government is taking a series of disturbing actions in national security, effectively implementing an agenda that the Chinese Communist Party wants for Canberra Labor is doing bad things Beijing wants it to do. These are: expelling intelligence chiefs...
Opinion: A New Ally Looms for Deserving Veterans
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RARA Open Letter to Adam Bandt – Dishonouring our Australian Flag
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From History – Thought for The Day
"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. Our petitions have been slighted (disrespected), our supplications (appeals) have been disregarded; and we have been...
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Opinion: Can Dutton Save the Army from the Generals?
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Opinion: Saying no is always the easy way out and path of least resistance
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Andrew Hastie – SAS must put honour before glory
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Opinion: Apportioning Blame
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