Kilmore & Wallan RSL Sub-Branch in Kilmore, Victoria | Community organisation

Kilmore & Wallan RSL Sub-Branch

Locality: Kilmore, Victoria

Phone: +61 407 739 706

Address: 14 Sydney Street 3764 Kilmore, VIC, Australia

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21.01.2022 Parliamentary Petition Gold card provision for Veterans under DRCA legislation Reason:... Veterans that have sole entitlement and eligibility under the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Defence-related Claims) Act 1988 (DRCA), are being significantly disadvantaged by comparison to those persons with, Veterans Entitlement Act 1986 (VEA) or Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004 (MRCA) entitlement, in that the DRCA does not accommodate provision of a Gold Card. The Gold Card can best simply be explained, as, providing an entitled person virtually unrestricted treatment to all medical conditions, be they as a result of defence service or not, who suffers significant or compounding injury or disease, as a result of their defence service. Timewise, broadly speaking, DRCA entitlement resides between the two other Veterans legislation, and it defies logic that a person is being deprived provision of a Gold Card, when another person with comparative injuries and/or illnesses, who enlisted earlier or later, has Gold Card entitlement. The Gold Card was reintroduced under MRCA, and this leads to the conclusion that the legislators, for whatever reason erred in not including a Gold Card provision under DRCA, and this is now clearly not reflective of public intent or spirit. The decision to deprive Gold Card entitlement to those under DRCA can now be viewed as regressive and unreasonable, and it had an arguably unintended and overly harsh consequence. Petition Request We therefore ask the House to initiate such processes to cause amendment to the DRCA that will result in person with DRCA entitlement to be provided a Gold Card, where a disease or injury mirrors their MRCA counterpart.

17.01.2022 Well done St Patrick’s

16.01.2022 It’s with immense sadness we see that the wonderful Tramways/East Melbourne RSL building is now for sale. Post Vietnam Veterans were accused of wanting to sell off RSL assets. Nothing could be further from the truth. We strongly believe that selling off these gifts from the ANZACs is financial mismanagement and often done through pure business incompetence. The members at TEM had a grant and plan to turn upstairs into emergency accomodation for veterans and women fleeing dome...stic violence. 70+ year old national servicemen had different ideas, stopping the project after it had begun, then claiming the building was no longer serviceable. History tells us that a commercial operation will be in debt, so time to sell another building. Not one sale of assets is invested in the asset base again; it’s proceeds are used to pay off commercial debts from running restaurants and pokies. Time for some new members to step into leadership positions within RSL Victoria and protect our asset base.

14.01.2022 Members with the community at the Wallan Service.

10.01.2022 The story of the unknown soldier: The original unknown soldier was entombed in Westminster Abbey in London on 11 November 1920, two days after being brought from France. His body had been selected by General Wyatt from among four, each draped in the Union Jack; they had been recovered from the British battlefields of the Somme, Aisne, Arras, and Ypres. The soldier was assumed to have been British (though he could have been a Canadian, a New Zealander, or even an Australian) b...ut he was intended to represent all the young men of the British Empire killed during the Great War. On the same date, an unknown French soldier was buried under the Arc de Triomphe, and several other allied nations soon entombed unknown soldiers of their own. Plans to honour an unknown Australian soldier were first put forward in the 1920s but it was not until 1993 that one was at last brought home. To mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the First World War, the body of an unknown Australian soldier was recovered from Adelaide Cemetery near Villers-Bretonneux in France and transported to Australia. After lying in state in King's Hall in Old Parliament House, Unknown Australian Soldier was interred in the Hall of Memory at the Memorial on 11 November 1993. He was buried with a bayonet and a sprig of wattle in a Tasmanian blackwood coffin, and soil from the Pozières battlefield was scattered in his tomb. The Unknown Australian Soldier represents all Australians who have been killed in war. https://www.awm.gov.au/commemo/customs-and-ceremony/soldier

03.01.2022 What's blue and not very heavy? ... Light blue. See more