20/08/2026
National servicemen were conscripted in the 60s for Vietnam. Some deployed to Vietnam, but also some didn't. Both equally had no choice to join. Both equally had to leave families to join, train and served.
Now there's a few hundred still alive—men in their late 70s and 80s—who get no Gold Card simply because they didn't get on a plane.
Same conscription. Same sacrifice of choice. Totally Different outcome.
Is that fair?
Melissa McIntosh MP Old Bar Beach RSL Sub Branch Taree RSL Sub Branch Taree RSL Sub Branch RSL NSW Auxiliary page Senator Jacqui Lambie
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