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November 2019 Issue NOVEMBER 2019 ISSUE ListeningThe POST Mateship and the art of the possible Also inside: Your full 2019 Remembrance Day guide Cover Photo: Ross Swanborough The Offi cial Journal of The Returned & Services League of Australia WA Branch Incorporated CONTACT DIRECTORY Chief Executive Offi cer John McCourt JP, MBA, FAIM, MPRIA (08) 9287 3799. [email protected] LETTERS Executive Assistant to the State President and Chief Executive Offi cer Nola Keen (08) 9287 3799. [email protected] Advocacy Services Manager to the Sharon Briggs (08) 9287 3799. [email protected] Advocate David Faithfull/Andrew Endrey/ Ian Jones (08) 9287 3799. [email protected] Editor State Welfare Offi cer Rosalind Howat (08) 9287 3799/0417 905 742. [email protected] State Welfare Offi cer/Financial Counsellor Nicky Sligo (08) 9287 3799. [email protected] State Membership Offi cer Andrea Hunt (08) 9287 3705. [email protected] Reception Offi cer Jason Connor Dear RSLWA (08) 9287 3799. [email protected] Chief Financial Offi cer Peter McGlade Today I received my membership confi rmation and badge from (08) 9287 3718. [email protected] you. Thank you. Financial Services Manager Karen Cleverly I cannot tell you how proud I am to have been accepted as an (08) 9287 3703. [email protected] Financial Services Offi cer affi liate member of an RSL. I am 65 years old and my life has not Hayley Barclay previously crossed paths with the RSL, the circumstances just (08) 9287 3741. [email protected] Property & Corporate Services Offi cer never lined up. Matthew Holyday (08) 9287 3714. [email protected] However, those circumstances changed a year or two back and Director of Marketing & Development Laura Yau it became critically important to be eligible and accepted. (08) 9287 3799. [email protected] Events Offi cer I’m saddened that my father and grandfather will never be aware Lauren Murdoch (08) 9287 3701. [email protected] of this but if they were, they would have a smile on their face. Communications & Engagement Offi cer Maxine Brown Thank you for the opportunity to wear your badge. (08) 9287 3799. [email protected] Marketing & Fundraising Offi cer Murray Hall Belinda Carter (08) 9287 3799. [email protected] ANZAC Club Development Offi cer Krithika Ramnarayan 9287 3799. acdo@rslwa,org.au You can email you Letters to the Editor to Maxine via Archives & Research Offi cer [email protected] Helen Starkie (Tue & Wed) (08) 9287 3713. [email protected] Board If you prefer more traditional means, please post to: Chairman/State President: Peter Aspinall State Vice President: Donna Prytulak Letters to the Editor Bill Collidge RFD, Ken Morris, Royce Spencer, Duncan Anderson, Chris Mayfi eld OAM, PO Box 3023, Robyn Steenbach. EAST PERTH 6892 Trustees Don Blair OAM RFD Wayne Tarr RFD ED The best of your submissions will be published in the March Philip Orchard AM, AFNI CMDR RAN (Ret’d) edition of The Listening Post. rslwa.org.au PS: Nothing makes us happier than receiving all your emailed story and letter submissions. But please ensure all The Listening Post email submissions are rslwahq provided on a Word Document. Also, all photos must be over 1MB and in JPEG rslwa form, sent as an attachment. company/returned-and-services- league-of-australia-wa-branch/ RSL STATEMENT OF PURPOSE The RSL was founded in 1916 to provide comradeship and support to Australia’s Veterans and their families. That core mission has never changed but has continued to evolve to meet the needs of each generation of servicemen and women. We have a branch network that covers Australia and any Veteran who needs help will get it – every serving ADF member and Veteran will be warmly welcomed at their local RSL Sub-Branch or club. We advocate for the best possible conditions for our serving men and women and for those who have served the nation in the past. We foster respect and thanks from the nation for all those who have made sacrifi ces in Australia’s Regular name and we will provide a strong voice on issues Inside of national unity and security. President’s Message 6 PREVIOUS EDITIONS Message From The CEO 8 Copies of The Listening Post published are Book Review - available on our website: Features www.rslwa.org.au Mateship And The Art Of The Larrikins in Khaki 26 PUBLISHING Possible 4 Unit And Kindred Listing 41 Publishing of The Listening Post: Published How PTSD Nearly Cost This Last Post 42 three times a year with a readership of over 25,000. Veteran Everything 12 To all Sub-Branch Presidents and Secretaries: Send photographs (1Mb plus) and a short article Soldiers And Sirens Winning (in a Word Document) on special activities at your Sub-Branch to The Listening Post. Fans By Saving Lives 24 Ex Pow Norm Eaton Turns 100 33 Events/News DEADLINE FOR NEXT EDITION: 21 FEBRUARY 2020 Perth Remembrance Day The preferred method of receiving submissions Service 16 is via email. Photographs should be attached separately and a minimum of 1Mb. This is your Sub-Branch Remembrance magazine and contributions and letters are Community Day Services 18 welcome Amputee Aware 10 Address to: Sub-Branch Toolkit 29 The Listening Post Sacrifi ce Is Just Part of Military PO Box 3023 Cockburn Comes Together For EAST PERTH WA 6892 Family Life 14 Vietnam Veterans Memorial Day 38 Email: [email protected] What Remembrance Day Opinions expressed by contributors in articles and reproduced articles are the individuals’ opinions or Means To You 15 the authors of such reproduced articles and are not necessarily those of the RSL. ANZAC House Veteran Central 27 Reproduction of articles (or extracts) contained 2019 Help Our Heroes in The Listening Post are welcomed, provided the source is acknowledged. The writers reserve the Charity Ball 30 right to accept, reject, sub-edit and re-arrange material submitted for publication. Service Returned 36 Infringement of Copyright Laws: We cannot accept newspaper clippings for publication without express approval from the Newspaper Editor as we may infringe on copyright laws. Cover Photo CONTACT DETAILS Ben Pronk & Tim Curtis Ex-SASR & successful The Returned & Services League of Australia WA Branch Incorporated corporate leaders. Level 3/66 St Georges Terrace, Perth WA 6000 Photo: Ross Swanborough PO Box 3023, East Perth WA 6892 | T: 08 9287 3799 | F: 08 9287 3732 E: [email protected] | W: www.rslwa.org.au | FB: www.facebook.com/rslwa Writing and Advertising Information: [email protected] Graphic Design: Kore Design | Printer: Vanguard Press WA Country Callers: 1800 259 799 (Landline only) Afghanistan Veteran Ben Pronk in action. INSET: Tim Curtis in the skipper’s chair of the Pong Su. stakes missions in Timor, Iraq, Afghanistan and here at home (the seizure of North Korean drug ship Pong Su as she made MATESHIP a dash for international waters, having dropping 150kg of heroin on our eastern and the art of shores in 2003). So yes, these are men who have lived life the possible on the edge and survived to tell the tale, in no small part thanks to each other. Ex-SASR and now corporate leaders Upon meeting for our interview at their Tim Curtis and Ben Pronk talk Mettle Global offi ces in the CBD, Tim and mateship … and how this frames their Ben are warm, philosophical, articulate, witty, generous of spirit and quick to smile. commitment to the Veteran cause as But there’s no hiding that occasional members of RSLWA’s fundraising fl icker of energy through the eyes or voice committee. By Maxine Brown that commands respect. So when Ben is asked to describe his ONE can only dream of being spoken about with the depth brother-in-arms Tim at the end of the of honour, respect and trust that former Commanding interview, his display of conviction in the Offi cer and Veteran Ben Pronk has for his mate, old SAS strength of their partnership is a beautiful boss and now-business partner Tim Curtis. thing. While the pair are polished corporate performers and “We’re talking about mateship and Tim seasoned motivational speakers, Ben reveals a belief in is a mate,’’ he says. “If you look at all the his mate at the end of our interview that, when vocalised, ways we’ve chosen to defi ne mateship, carries the impact of an emotional punch to the heart. and in particular that unconditionality, that Make no mistake; these are not soft men. The foundations sort of ‘got your back, you know that you of their friendship were forged in service as leaders within can rely on this person’, then that’s Tim. our elite SASR … where they immersed themselves in high- Expanding on that as well, particularly 4 The Listening Post NOVEMBER 2019 rslwa.org.au in this context, there’s a lot of do that is diffi cult with other ‘’And under the one roof, with things that Tim does naturally, as people produces a platform for people who get that shared and part of who he is, that I aspire to mateship. The next piece, of common experience. That’s really and want to learn. He used that course, is some level of equality, a fantastic initiative from RSL.” phrase about having the diffi cult a classlessness. And the last Ben adds: “And not only under conversations early, Tim is able one is a strong commitment to one roof, but under one roof in to do that, and it just sets such providing assistance regardless a central location, a fantastic a beautiful clarity for not only of the circumstance.
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