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Disgust: how we treat ex-servicemen

Posted by: 2UE | 15 September, 2011 - 7:38 AM

How we treat our ex-servicemen reveals the type of country we are

Australian war-veterans are up in arms, with news that the federal government paid for up to 100-public servants to be flown to Gallipoli for Anzac Day commemorations. The government spent more-than three-million dollars to stage services in Turkey.

But what of the money spent on our veterans?

Shabby treatment of our ex-servicemen is astounding. People who fought for this country and how they are being treated has outraged Jason Morrison. Here's how Australia has forgotten the people who gave us our freedom.

Minister for Defence Science and Personnel Warren Snowdon tells David Oldfield reports that 100 public service workers' junket to Gallipoli have been overstated.

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Blog comments

Just listened to AVM Crisp interview with Jason - good work. I was a career soldier with 2 operational tours and over 20 years in the Army. I also paid my own way to Gallipoli

Malcolm Bramley Monday 3 October, 2011 - 3:42 PM
We have ex service people who are now pollies but seem to forget that they too wore the uniform of their country. Only they seem to have forgotten their comrades for their own personal agenda. Only one of them ever saw combat but he seems to have lost the plot.
Super pension what a joke.

David Clark Tuesday 27 September, 2011 - 4:10 PM
Thankyou for your commitment. The immediate comparison with the illegal immigrant situation shows what little regard our governments have had for the ex servicemen & women and their surviving spouces. The money that has been fritted away on this "problem" would well and truly have helped the military pensioner keep up with costs of living.

Brian Fooks Tuesday 27 September, 2011 - 6:40 AM
What Peter didn't mention, probably due to time constraints, was that senior Labor members, prior to the last Federal election, promised to support a beneficial change to the way service pensions are calculated ,if they were re-elected. They reneged on this promise, citing caucus solidarity. So much for "political integrity', or is that a oxymoron?

Brian fish Sunday 25 September, 2011 - 5:39 PM
Do these parasitical M.P's and Public Servants, still have the gall to look decent people in the eye? The ONLY people sent there MUST be one hundred of the highest decorated women/men who risked their lives on battlefields to keep us free.

Bill DOBELL (snr) Sunday 25 September, 2011 - 3:51 PM
Well done and thanks for raising this issue. It seems that we will never get a fair deal from this or any other Government. No matter how many times the matter is raised, they all fail to act to support the ex Servicemen. You get better treatment if you arrive as an illegal immigrant.

Neil Murray Sunday 25 September, 2011 - 11:46 AM