Submission to the Australian War Memorial

My life in brief has taken many blows directly and indirectly from my military service and public service to our nations benefits over my life’s 73 years of living. What I would like to see in print on an entrance wall to the Vietnam experience is the following filthy rotten acts perpetrated by elected government officials, public servants including the Australian public in general a minority by numbers in my opinion. Let’s just work back from this prime minister his cabinet and of course his infamous generals ( brereton and pommy Angus) miserable excuses for leaders in my opinion their recklessness should be recorded on a wall. Bob Hawke with his Veterans entitlement bill in 1986 was brilliant but for successive governments tearing it apart. I was in attendance at a seminar conducted at the University of Technology October 1989 where a presenter divulged that in the budget spending cited under the FOI ( 41% was spent on and directly went to all facets veterans needs, and 59% was spent on DVA administration) point out to the public on this wall of wrong doing how all a service persons learnings and experiences are not seized upon by our nation to build up and not cast aside or destroyed as a worthless land fill. Ieaving it here with my thoughts that there is need for a wall of shame naming Australian perpetrators of misdeeds dating back to say federation. What I wish for all Australians to see is a dirty filthy rotten to the core individuals ( dogs of society) named and shamed by evidence of their life’s miss deeds inflicted upon both the Indiginous Aboriginal culture of Australia and its Servicemen and women. Kind regards and best wishes in your endeavours to build up and not destroy. John Norris.