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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Jim Park Voting 2024 AFL Rd 6 Carlton vs GWS
Last post by LP -
To me it's a bit unfair that Australian's serving in peacekeeping, piracy and policing roles OS aren't recognised equally with those who fight in wars. In some ways a clerk serving in a supply depot in Melbourne during WWII gets more recognition and benefits than a peacekeeper being shot on a foreign continent.

I've a friend who has a son is currently deployed OS with operational groups, they are as actively involved in diplomacy as they are in other more "risky" duties. Being an officer he has to do both roles and that actually puts him at greater risk, just because we aren't at war at the moment doesn't mean they aren't at risk from rockets, drones, snipers, IEDs, mines, grenades, etc., etc..

On another note, in many ways those involved investigating drugs and organised crime policing are also at huge risk here and abroad.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Jim Park Voting 2024 AFL Rd 6 Carlton vs GWS
Last post by DJC -
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Seen a video doing the rounds on socials about Jim Park.  Didn't realise he was killed in action during world war 2, after having played128 games.  Served with a team mate Jim askew.

If I remember correctly, Jim Park was one of 99 Australian troops killed in the battle of Wau.  I think that’s where Albo attended the dawn service today.

I was involved in an exercise fighting over very similar terrain in 1972.  The “enemy”, members of the then Pacific Islands Regiment, were occupying Japanese bunkers that were still intact 30 years after they were last used.

The terrain is challenging but even more so when some bastards are shooting at you.

Much respect to Jim Park and the other Aussies who fought by his side at Wau, and at other battlefields in the South Pacific, the Middle East, Türkiye, Greece, Crete, France and the Low Countries, Vietnam, Malaysia and the more recent conflicts and peacekeeping missions in Somalia, Iraq, East Timor and Afghanistan.

And a special shout out to the peacekeepers, including my late brother, Ron, who served with the UNCIVPOL in Cyprus in 1978.

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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: VFL 2024 Rd 5 Carlton vs Geelong at Carlton
Last post by crashlander -
Binns, Cincotta and Sam Durdin named as emergencies for the seniors. One of those will probably not play VFL: probably Cincotta.
Akuei and Billy Wilson available. Wilson is an immediate 'in'. Not so sure about Akuei. He has had a pretty ordinary start to the year.