Issue 5 12 Aug 2011 The Seige Consolidation – Supplimental   Don't forget to post your letters on 12th /13th August to Parliament House! Have you got your letters ready to post on 12th /13th August yet? If not, you only have a few days left…….so please, don’t delay….the success of this “raid” is dependent […]

SITREP Issue 4 23 July 2011 A CALL TO ARMS The Seige – Consolidation  WELCOME TO THE OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF OUR NEW WEBSITE – “JUST A FAIR GO” www.justafairgo.net OBJECTIVE……..TO WIN THE BATTLE FOR A FAIR GO for all members of the Defence Community In this website you will find numerous articles relating to the issues […]

An Australian soldier participating in Exercise Talisman Sabre 2011 has been admitted to a Brisbane hospital after being seriously injured in an Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) vehicle accident. The accident occurred within the Shoalwater Bay Training Area overnight. Talisman Sabre 2011 spokesman Brigadier Bob Brown said the APC was carrying nine Australian Defence Force personnel […]

EXCLUSIVE BREAKING NEWS: Diggers vs the Gillard Government | Independent Australia http://www.independentaustralia.net/2011/politics/exclusive-breaking-news-diggers-versus-the-gillard-government/ EXCLUSIVE BREAKING NEWS: Diggers vs the Gillard Government BREAKING NEWS….INDEPENDENT AUSTRALIA EXCLUSIVE KNOW YOUR ENEMY — DIGGERS VERSUS THE GILLARD GOVERNMENT by Tess Lawrence By Tess Lawrence | Contributing editor-at-large “In 30 years as a member of the Labor Party, I continually found […]

Australian Army Awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia Corporal Benjamin Roberts-Smith, VC, MG For the most conspicuous gallantry in action in circumstances of extreme peril as Patrol Second-in-Command, Special Operations Task Group on Operation SLIPPER. Corporal Benjamin Roberts Smith enlisted in the Australian Regular Army in 1996. After completing the requisite courses, he was posted […]

The ‘Fair Go!’, community awareness campaign is and will remain apolitical, that is, politically neutral. Fair Go!, is asking all major political parties, equally, for their intentions in regard to four key matters affecting the Defence family: reform of military superannuation matters especially pension indexation, equitable treatment of veteran disability pensions, certainty in military compensation, […]

JOINT PRESS RELEASE THE HON. TONY ABBOTT MHR, LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION, SENATOR THE HON. DAVID JOHNSTON, SHADOW MINISTER FOR DEFENCE, THE HON. BOB BALDWIN MHR, SHADOW MINISTER FOR DEFENCE, SCIENCE AND PERSONNEL AND ASSISTING SHADOW MINISTER FOR DEFENCE, LOUISE MARKUS MHR, SHADOW MINISTER FOR VETERANS’ AFFAIRS AND STUART ROBERT MHR, SHADOW PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY FOR […]

Saturday 26 June 2010 David Jamison the National President of the Defence Force Welfare Association has welcomed the announcement that from 1 July 2011, under a Coalition Government, DFRB/DFRDB* members aged 55 years or over will have their superannuation pensions indexed in the same manner as Age and Service pensions. In briefing DFWA on this […]

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Hi All, If you think it’s unfair that over 600,000 Australians who are serving or have previously served in our military forces to defend and protect Australia are seeing their retirement benefits eroded and their standard of living being continually reduced and you want the government to fix the indexation arrangements of Military Superannuation Pensions […]