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Brisbane Legacy BULLETIN OCTOBER 2010 2010 QUEENSLAND LEGACY STATE GET TOGETHER The 2010 State Get-together was held in Ipswich on Saturday, 30 October. The Get-together was attended by all ten Queensland Legacy Clubs and Coolangatta-Tweed Heads Legacy Club. The Get-together commenced with a Memorial Service at the Soldiers' Memorial Hall on Friday, 29 October followed by a civic reception hosted by the Ipswich City Council. The following morning, delegates met in the Ipswich Civic Centre for the day's proceedings. Speakers included: Councillor Andrew Antoniolli, Ipswich City Council; Ms Alison Stanley, Deputy Commissioner DVA (QLD); L/David Kelly, Chairman LAC; Mr Mike Ricketts, Business Development & Strategic, Defcredit (the Get-together sponsor). Matters discussed included the future of LJPSA in Queensland, sources of Grants funding available to Clubs, and TIP and Legatee training. Reports were also provided by the Queensland representatives to the National Marketing Committee (L/ Gordon Kratzmann), National Pensions Committee (L/Norm Clarke) and the National Aged Care Forum (L/Keith Anderson). The Get-together concluded with a dinner at the Ipswich RSL Services Club. State Library of Queensland presents 6 Nov 2010 to 20 Feb 2011 State Library of Queensland Cultural Centre, Stanley Place, South Bank BULLETIN October 2010 Page 1 FROM THE PRESIDENT In this Report, I want to flag with several issues with you. These include: Badge Week Badge Week was particularly successful for us this year. The final figures are just over $518k – an increase of just over 20% from last year. I want to thank everyone involved for their hard work which led directly to this excellent result. As well as a great deal of enthusiasm and dedication on our part, I think the public mood was very much in our favour. There had been some very bad news from Afghanistan and a number of funerals here in Brisbane which attracted media coverage. Nonetheless, our results are very encouraging. I was particularly keen to participate in the review of Badge Week. A number of issues were raised and some very good ideas were presented. Gavan White and his team are coordinating these initiatives and will report to Groups progressively in the coming weeks. One idea I want to raise with everyone is the difficulty we have simply getting numbers to man shopping centres and other badge sale points. A number of ideas were put forward including teaming with service clubs and identifying organisations (such as banks) which provide community service days for their staff. Both these ideas need to be considered carefully and I will keep you informed as we explore these possible options. Communication Survey Many of you will have seen the email from Legacy House advising that as part of his review of communications, Ian Ferguson has posted an online survey seeking your views and opinions. I have to say that the very small number of respondents is disappointing so if you have been holding back for any reason, please do not hesitate any longer! Changes to the Board After many years of hard work, Gordon Kratzmann has stepped down from the Board. Gordon will continue to serve Legacy in a variety of ways, including devoting himself more fully to his Group and his work on the National Marketing Committee. In November we will welcome Colonel Luke Foster, AM, CSM to the Board. Luke is the Chief of Staff, Headquarters 1st Division at Enoggera. Hospital I saw Ken Leckenby recently and he told me he will probably be back in Greenslopes for a series of smaller operations in the next few weeks. We all hope that his stay this time is not nearly as extended as his previous visits. Visit by the Governor By the time you receive this, the visit by the governor to the combined Care Groups at Kedron Wavell Services Club will be over. I know it is eagerly anticipated by many of our ladies and will report on the visit in my next Report. Last Word As I mentioned in my last Report, I took some leave in September. The highlight of my trip was my visit to Gallipoli. As we all know, it is a place of special significance to Australians and New Zealanders. I would thoroughly recommend visiting Gallipoli to anyone who is capable. Thank you and keep up the good work. Tony Ralph President BULLETIN October 2010 Page 2 FROM THE CEO It's hard to believe that it is November already, the Melbourne Cup is about to be run and Christmas is only eight weeks away. Like each of the previous nine months, October was especially busy. Highlights included: Army in Concert; a combined Laurel Club/Care Group luncheon attended by our patron, Her Excellency Ms Penelope Wensley, AO; and the Queensland Legacy State Get-together at Ipswich. Unfortunately, the month also saw the passing of two long serving and respected Legatees: L/John Allen on 7 October and L/Paddy Outridge, AM, MID on 23 October. During the month the President and I also met with Mrs Kim Morgan-Short (a war widow) and Ms Alison Stanley (Deputy Commissioner, DVA QLD) to look at how we can better engage Legacy's younger families. This was a particularly worthwhile meeting and has given me some ideas to pursue in the New Year. Finally, I can now advise that a new Welfare Manager (Ms Christina Davidson) has been appointed and will commence work on Thursday, 25 November. Christina has an undergraduate degree in Arts (Humanities), a Diploma in Community Services Management and a Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment. Her work experience has been with the Australian Red Cross (Project Coordinator, Early Years Health and Wellbeing and Case Manager, Homelessness Early Intervention), Women's Domestic Violence Crisis Services of Victoria and a number of other agencies. I know that everyone will help make Christina most welcome and assist her settling into the position. Steven Blinkhorn Chief Executive Officer Legatees Christmas Party Tuesday, 7 December 2010 at Legacy House 1200hrs for 1230hrs RSVP: Sandra on 3846 4299 or email@example.com no later than Thursday, 2 December 2010 REMEMBRANCE DAY Join the RSL (Queensland Branch) in commemorating allwho have served, suffered, and died in war at Brisbane's ANZAC Square on Thursday, November 11, 2010. WHAT: Remembrance Day Ceremony WHEN: Thursday, November 11, 2010 WHERE: Shrine of Remembrance, ANZAC Square More information will be available closer to the date. BULLETIN October 2010 Page 3 LAUREL CLUB AND CARE GROUP MEMBERS DINE WITH GOVERNOR On Friday, 29 October the Club Patron, Her Excellency Ms Penelope Wensley, AO was the guest of honour at a combined Laurel Club and Care Group luncheon held at the RSL Kedron Wavell Services Club. President of the host Care Group (Kedron Wavell), Mrs Marie Natt and Brisbane Legacy Club President, L/Tony Ralph, met Her Excellency before introducing her to other Laurel Club/Care Group presidents including: Mrs Joan Stirling (Albany Creek Care Group), Mrs Adele Carr (Bribie Island Care Group), Mrs Jean Hine (Brisbane Legacy Laurel Club); Mrs Denise Fridolf (Geebung Care Group), Mrs Pat Christopher (Pine Rivers Care Group), Mrs Betty Rogers (Redcliffe Care Group), and Mrs Pearl Rashford (Sandgate Care Group). Her Excellency addressed the gathering by speaking about her own experiences growing up with Legacy (her father was a Legatee) and her work as a diplomat, including as the Australian Ambassador to the United Nations where she played a key role in the negotiation of a number of major international Treaties, including the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the United Nations Convention to combat Drought and Desertification. She also chaired or co-chaired a Security Council resolution calling for a multinational force to restore peace and security to East Timor. During the lunch, Her Excellency delighted those in attendance by taking time to visit each of the tables and speaking with those present. In all, the luncheon was attended by 235 widows and 15 Legatees and others. It was truly a wonderful occasion and great to see the venue filled to capacity. BULLETIN October 2010 Page 4 WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR PARTNER WHEN YOU DIE? Some Issues You Should Consider FINANCIAL MATTERS For all financial matters seek advice from you bank/s or financial institutions. Banks require notification of a death as soon as possible. We have heard stories of banks freezing joint accounts on the death of a signatory. If you have a joint account, you will be wise to check its status with the bank. It is advisable for both partners to have an account IN THEIR OWN NAME so there will be no problem in organising payment of benefits into the other account. There is also a demonstrated need for each partner to have their own credit card. The death of the major cardholder means that the additional cardholders are not recognised, leaving the surviving partner without access to credit facilities and no established credit history. You should check the status of all your credit cards. Some bank loans may be written off if an insurance fee has been paid. Discussion with the bank if it is wise to keep any loans rather than pay them off as your partner may find it difficult to raise a new loan at a later date. You should also check who has access to any bank security boxes. WILLS, POWER OF ATTORNEY & ENDURING POWER OF ATTORNEY Every adult over the age of eighteen should have a current Will and a completed Power of Attorney/Enduring Power of Attorney. Both should be kept in a secure place the location of which is known to your partner and at least one executor. Both should be updated on a regular basis for example, on renewal of your driving licence. Each State has different regulations. Remember that your Power of Attorney may be needed by your partner at any time eg, if you are incapacitated due to even temporary medical care. Having Power of Attorney means that your partner can pay bills, give instructions about your medical treatment and attend to your affairs, if you are unable to do so. There is also a trend towards drawing up an ‗End of Life Care Plan' which should be kept with these documents. FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS AND MEMORIALS Each partner should know the other's choice of funeral arrangements, have them written down and preferably kept with the Will. If eligible, you will be entitled to official commemoration. Your nominated next of kin will be contacted by the Office of Australian War Graves to organise this. However, all veterans who served in the Australian forces are entitled to use the relevant Service badge/insignia on their private memorial. A request in writing to the Office of Australian War Graves is required. DFRB/DFRDB/MSBS BENEFIT Upon notification of the death of the original recipient of a DFRB/DFRDB benefit, ComSuper will cease payment until the necessary forms, correctly filled out, are submitted. Only then will your partner receive their entitlements, paid into an account IN THEIR OWN NAME. These entitlements generally are: DFRB: A lump sum equal to seven pays (14 weeks) of the difference between the deceased (old) and the surviving partner's (new) pension, plus the commencement of a fully CPI indexed pension (being five eighths of the deceased's old pension) paid fortnightly. DFRDB: A lump sum equal to seven pays of the difference between the deceased's (old) and the surviving (new) pension, plus the commencement of a partially CPI indexed pension. In outline, the new pension is five eighths of the deceased's full old pension as if he/she had not commuted his/her benefit when leaving the Service. The value of that additional part is ‗frozen' and the part relating to the deceased's previous fortnightly pension is CPI indexed. The pension is paid fortnightly. MSBS: These benefits are quite different from DFRB/DFRDB and are calculated on an individual basis upon application. VETERAN ENTITLEMENTS Your partner may be entitled to benefits from the Department of Veterans' (DVA) but to apply they will need documentation and proof of their partner's Defence Service. You and your partner might have already established their possible entitlements. If so then gathering that information together now and having it on hand will greatly assist in any applications to DVA. Note that if you have a Gold Care it is not transferable. If you are a TPI pensioner your partner will automatically be entitled to a Gold Card. If they believe they are eligible for a BULLETIN October 2010 Page 5 War Widow's Pension, they should contact DVA and, if their application is successful, they will also be entitled to a Gold Card. Legacy can assist with completing the application. If the death is caused by a Service related injury (or the deceased was already in receipt of a DVA pension) your partner may be entitled to a DVA pension. Contact the DVA, DFWA, Legacy, Vietnam Veterans' Association of Australia, Vietnam Veterans' Federation of Australia or other ex service agencies for further information. If there are entitlements to any other compensation payments these need to be submitted as soon as possible. Entitlements for dependent children may also be payable. PENSION ENTITLEMENTS If your partner's total income is below a certain amount, a Centrelink pension, either full or part, may be payable. Bridging finance prior to the start of the ComSuper pension may be provided. Copies of the Marriage Certificate, Will and Death Certificate will be needed. CHILDREN If you have dependent children and/or full time students, additional pension benefits may be payable. Documents required will include copies of the Marriage Certificate and the Death Certificate (though a copy of a newspaper notification of death may be accepted until the Death Certificate is available). MARITAL SEPARATION For a variety of reasons including dementia or invalidity, you and your partner may have needed to live separately for a period. You may need written advice or a certificate from your doctor advising that the separation was for medical reasons before ComSuper will commence pension payment. LEGACY Your partner may be eligible for assistance from Legacy due to your service in a War Zone, Operation Service or training for operations. Contact Legacy for further details. TAX RETURNS A (final) tax return will need to be lodged with the Australian Taxation Office on behalf of the deceased's estate. Upon Probate, the estate can be distributed to any beneficiaries and sufficient money needs to be set aside to meet any final tax obligations. The executor will usually arrange this. Other related matters to note include possible Capital Gains Tax for shares purchased after 1985 or other assets, stamp duty and other fees. THE HOUSE After a required period of time (usually 28 days) a house in joint names should be transferred to the surviving joint owner upon application to the relevant Titles Office. Documentation required may include copies of the Marriage Certificate, Death Certificate, the Will and Title documents. The relevant financial institution will need to be advised regarding home loans. The house and contents insurance notices will need to be transferred to a single name. THE CAR A car can be transferred to your partner if they are the sole beneficiary of the Will. Ideally, the family car should be registered in both names. The deceased's driving licence may be eligible for a refund of the remaining valid period. Copies of the car registration papers and your driving licence as well as the Marriage Certificate, Death Certificate and Will may be required. Insurance companies will need to be transferred to a single name. PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE Benefits may be payable from private health insurers. Future premiums may be reduced, particularly if the family rate reduces to a single rate, so the health fund must be informed of the death. CLUB AND ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP Make a list of organisations of which you are a member, along with the membership numbers, phone numbers and addresses. All the deceased's memberships will need to be cancelled. Refunds may be payable. CONTRACTS The current trend towards contracts for mobile phones, Internet, security systems and the like can cause problems. These may have to be paid out in full. Some contracts may need to be re-negotiated or transferred to BULLETIN October 2010 Page 6 the surviving partner. Your partner needs to be able to access all relevant account details, passwords etc, to be able to contact the companies as soon as possible and to avoid running up further bills. ROUTINE HOUSEHOLD BILLS Keep a list of regular accounts and direct debits (eg, rates, security systems, home and contact insurances, vehicle insurance, health insurance, phone and mobile providers, internet service providers, water, gas, electricity etc). Making a note of how and when they are usually paid and the approximate amounts will save your partner distress and uncertainty, particularly if they are not in the habit of handling those particular accounts. Preferable, both partners should be equally familiar with arrangements for payment of household accounts. If you normally access such accounts either over the phone or via the internet your partner will need the logins (user names and passwords). You will be amazed how may you have and how often you, and therefore your partner, will need to be able to access them! A list of trusted tradesmen, or their fridge magnets on the fridge door, can be a great help. DOCUMENTS Your partner will require a copy of your Will, Service Record (including medical and psychiatric records) and Death Certificate. They may need to carry a certified copy of the Death Certificate in order to conduct or finalise some financial matters. It is a good idea for them to get ten certified copies. Other documents often needed include the Marriage Certificate and Title Documents for your home. FINALLY It is advised that the newly bereaved partner keep an exercise book to record all business phone calls etc made after the partner's death. In the fog of grief, memory can be faulty and a record of calls and decisions made will be very useful. There will no doubt also be calls from friends and family and it can be very helpful to make a note of those too. Relatives and friends may make decisions and arrangements on their behalf and trying to remember all these will be difficult. A copy of all correspondence and forms completed can be kept in a file. Source: Defence Widows Support Group—July 2010 MYTHS AND LEGENDS ABOUT VIETNAM VETERANS The following is an article by Dr Brian O'Toole from the ANZAC Institute. Dr O"Toole is an epidemiologist with a long interest in the health of Vietnam veterans and the health consequences of war service. He has worked on the Australian "agent orange" scientific studies, was a member of the NAC to the Minister for Veterans" Affairs on the VVCS, and conducted the first cohort health study of any returned service group in Australia, the Vietnam Veterans Health Study. He has conducted this longitudinal study over two waves of assessments, 14 years apart, of a random sample of Vietnam veterans, making the study unique in Australia and one of only a few such studies worldwide. He has recently conducted a companion study of veterans" wives, and is one of the few people in Australia with an expert knowledge of the long term effects of war service on veterans and their families. In this article he addresses some of the myths and legends. 1. "It was safer in Vietnam than in Australia for the Nashos" Only 1-in-16 young men who were called up actually got enlisted in the Army. From the 63,745 NSM who were enlisted in the eligible time period, 19,450 were sent to Vietnam. That's 30.5%, less than a third. So even if you were called up, there was actually only a 1.9% chance that you would be sent to Vietnam. During the conflict there were 215 deaths of NSM in Vietnam; the mortality rate of NSM veterans in Vietnam was about 1.1%, very similar to the Regular mortality rate and very similar to the overall American mortality rate. Australia's contribution was exactly proportional. But during the BULLETIN October 2010 Page 7 war years there were 188 deaths of NSM in Australia, where most of the deaths occurred on the roads. This is a mortality rate of les than 0.3%. So the relative risk of death, if you were a Nasho and were sent to Vietnam, was 4 times higher than the risk if you were a Nasho who stayed at home. So it wasn't safer in Vietnam at all, and there was no-one actually trying to kill you in Australia. 2. ""Only the ones dumb enough not to get out of it were sent" The Army had a screening Psych test administered on enlistment called the AGC that basically measured intelligence. It was scaled, or ―normed‖ on a general Regular population to have an average of 10.5 on a scale of 1-20. Several Army Officers have told me they ―lifted the whole standard of the Army‖. Indeed, the average AGC score of the Nasho veterans was 13.5, much higher than the background Regular Army population of 10.5. But, when compared with the Nasho veterans, the Regulars were not different; this means that the Regs who went to Vietnam were significantly brighter than the ones who stayed at home. Australia sent its best, fittest and brightest of both Regulars and Nasho's to Vietnam and it's more likely that the dumb ones stayed home. 3. "The Nasho had it easier than the Regs The study measured the potential for combat exposure in several different ways, from interviews with the diggers using an American questionnaire and from Army sources. Both showed that the average level of exposure was indeed slightly higher for Regs than for Nasho's, but looking at the extent of the exposure showed that Regs and Nasho's together had very similar risks of high intense combat, but that Nasho's had slightly more who experienced low levels. But it's not just direct combat that hurts. When you look at the rate of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and other mental disorders in Regs and Nasho's, there is absolutely no difference. This means that you don't need lots of direct combat or be a Regular enlistee to be vulnerable to PTSD and depression. Eight months in a war zone alone will do it for you, whether you were a Nasho or a Reg. Sometimes, it can only take one day. 4. "The blokes who came home by sea have less PTSD‖. This was a common myth heard around DVA and military senior ranks for some time; that a nice sea voyage home, fuelled by lots of beer, would leave PTSD behind, much like the line of cans that floated behind the Vung Tau Ferry on the return trip. Controversy raged and was fed by the image of men fighting in the jungle one day, and the next finding themselves discharged at the airport and alone late at night on the way home. But when I looked at the different rates of PTSD for those who came home by sea and by air, there was absolutely no difference. That doesn't mean that the homecoming is not important – our research clearly shows it was important to veterans' later adjustment, particularly in the weeks and months after RTA, when they were reluctant to talk about their experiences, bottling them up, hitting the deck when a car backfired, and then hitting the booze, in an atmosphere of government neglect and hysterical media opposition. From a humanist point of view, return to Australia by a leisurely means is surely a good thing for unit cohesion, for morale, and so forth, but it has no direct bearing on the issue of protective factors for PTSD and other conditions. 5. "Just get over it, son; it"ll get easier as you get older". Population evidence shows that the prevalence of most mental disorders actually reduces as people age – older people have better overall mental health, except for the dementing disorders, of course. The ages of 15-25 are dangerous for schizophrenia and the psychotic disorders, and the ages of 35-55 are dangerous for anxiety and depression, with the peak age of suicide in men occurring in their mid-50s. In my study, at Wave 1 the veterans were aged between 39 and 73, with an average age of 46, and at wave 2 the spread was 46 to 87, with an average age of 60. We would expect that the prevalence of psychological disorders would decrease with time, but that is not what was found. The veterans had many times higher rates of depression and anxiety than expected based on population figures. Although it is a rare condition, imagine rates of BULLETIN October 2010 Page 8 recurrent, severe, chronic depression at literally 40 times higher, not just 40% higher, than for the same age groups in the Australian population. And this is 3 decades after the war. 6. ―You didn"t fight in a real war". How many Vietnam veterans heard this, just before they were chucked out of an RSL? It comes from the old view of what types of activity occur in a war that sees army upon army, as occurred in previous conflicts. American studies of World War II have shown that only about 15% of soldiers actually fired their weapon; in the American Civil War they found flintlock rifles on battlefields that had been muzzle-loaded up to 8 times but not fired, because of reluctance on the part of often very young combatants. Anecdotes about war often repeat the idea of ―95% sheer boredom and 5% sheer terror‖ that often characterised former conflicts. But Vietnam was different. In Vietnam we found that less than one-quarter of the veterans did not fire their weapon, and 17% reported firing a dozen times or more. This alone distinguishes Vietnam from other conflicts. Vietnam was a war without fronts, where non-combatants could easily become targets, where the friendly local by day could become a most unfriendly cat in black pyjamas by night, where you could get into trouble walking down the wrong alley in town. It was a conflict of counter insurgency, fought among a civilian population, all the time on TV. Where the military historian (Major) McNeill wrote that Vietnam placed Australian men into longer periods of risk of contact with the enemy than at any time in Australia's history since Gallipoli. Scientists are beginning to untangle the causes of PTSD and other war-related disorders by looking at the environmental assaults experienced by combatants. The obvious ones – direct combat, being wounded, etc – do not completely explain the rates of PTSD, particularly among non-combatants. This issue also arose with the Australian Gulf War study, conducted at the behest of DVA, that showed that about 15% of Gulf War veterans qualified for a diagnosis of PTSD, yet there was not a shot fired by or against the Aussies. Being trapped below the water line is a major fear for Navy personnel. The concept of ―malevolent environment‖ is becoming heard these days, to describe non combat-related mental health conditions that can arise from just being present in a war zone. It is probably impossible, or at least unsatisfactory, to try and compare wars – but you can extrapolate. From what we know about Vietnam and subsequent conflicts, the veterans of World War I, World War II, Korea, and other conflicts will have had similar rates of psychological problems as a result of their war service. We can extrapolate that the peacekeepers in nasty places like Rwanda would have similar rates of reactions to their experiences and require the same levels of support. The same goes for the Iraq and Afghanistan theatres, which certainly qualify for the soubriquet of ―malevolent environments‖ and which can be expected to result in similar levels of psychological problems after RTA. All wars and conflicts are traumatic and nobody's war is more traumatic or less traumatic than anyone else's war; the same level of human suffering can be expected after any military conflict. 7. "Veterans have multiple unstable marriages" This common myth is definitely not supported by our data: 79% of veterans had been married once only – compare this with up to 40% of Australian marriages ending up on the rocks. At the time of interviews, 3% had never married, 4% were separated, 3% were widowers, and 10.5% were divorced. When these are compared with Australian population (Bureau of Statistics) data, it shows that there is no essential difference between the marital status of veterans and the marital status of the population. Moreover, the level of domestic violence is exactly the same among veterans as in the general Australian population. While about 25% of veterans admitted to marital punch-ups, this was almost exactly the same as my study a few years ago of domestic violence in the general community showed. Most of it was a single incident, mostly many years in the past. Veterans are not necessarily ―walking time bombs‖. But they can be challenging to live with, particularly if PTSD, depression and alcohol come into the picture. The data shows that PTSD is in fact clearly linked to the risk of domestic violence, and men with PTSD have less marital satisfaction than men without PTSD, as do their wives. However, the BULLETIN October 2010 Page 9 average length of marriage was more than 31 years and, in spite of veterans' struggles with alcohol and PTSD, their wives ‗hang in there'. Even despite differences between PTSD veterans and non-PTSD veterans, their wives' measures of marital satisfaction do not fall within the so- called ‗clinical range', which means they are within ‗normal' limits when it comes to marital adjustment. 8. "They would have been like that anyway". This is one of the most insidious, arrogant and destructive myths that I have heard expressed around DVA and Defence. From our paper that examined the risk factors for PTSD (that was published in 1998), we took information from different time periods – at school, between school and the Army, in the Army before going to Vietnam, and in Vietnam. We tested 100's of items. We asked veterans if their father was in the military in World War II, in combat, and whether he was affected by his service. Interestingly, father being affected by his WWII service came up as a predictor of PTSD, so much so that I had a long exchange with a journal editor and an anonymous journal referee who wanted to emphasise the possible genetic influences on PTSD. Our psychiatric assessments showed that a few veterans had symptoms of depression and agoraphobia before going to Vietnam. And there was some association between having depression and agoraphobia before going overseas and later development of PTSD. So it seems the myth may be correct. But we are talking very small amounts, although statistically significant. The in-Vietnam variables that were the most strongly predictive of PTSD were: corps group, being wounded, and the amount of combat trauma experienced. These items swamped the other variables. Corps group in particular is interesting: the highest rates of PTSD found in the study were among RAE. This is in spite of their having lower mortality rates in Vietnam and having generally lower scores on the various combat measures we used. This suggests that their role is inherently dangerous – that's a bit bleedin' obvious, for a bomb and mine disposal team – and that direct enemy attack and combat is not the full story about PTSD, particularly for non- combatants. There is some small indication that there may be predisposing risk factors for PTSD, but without the experiences of Vietnam and combat, they would not have been like that anyway. The threats faced by Field Engineers would certainly qualify as a ―malevolent environment‖. 9. ―Veterans biggest problem is PTSD". No, the veterans' biggest problem is not PTSD. In wave 1 we found PTSD to have occurred in 20% of veterans and it was current (i.e. symptoms in the past month) to the level of 10%. But alcohol abuse and dependence were much more prevalent – in wave 1 it was approximately 47% of veterans with alcohol disorders, more than double the PTSD rate. In wave 2 we found PTSD had increased to about 25%, while alcohol disorders had come down to about 28%, but they were still the highest prevalence of the psychological disorders and were many times more prevalent than the background Australian population. High cholesterol, hypertension, deafness, haemorrhoids, osteoarthritis, gout and back pain were all at much higher prevalence's than PTSD, as was general anxiety disorder. The good news is that, in spite of the Army teaching men to drink and smoke, the current smoking rates of veterans were no different from the general population, but there were far more ex-smokers than the population, so this tells me that veterans have often heard the health message about smoking and given up. 10. "We don"t have to worry about the wives until they become widows". It seems important to governments to gather data about veterans, and so it should be, but veterans don't exist in a vacuum; most have wives and children who might be at risk of ―ripple effects‖ of their veteran's service. In our study of veterans' wives and partners, we found that the partners of veterans are not just struggling with their impaired partner but are suffering elevated rates of serious psychiatric illness, especially severe, recurrent depression, even 3 decades after the war. A statistical analysis of factors associated with wives' depression showed that veteran combat, PTSD and ongoing depression were clear and strong risk factors. That is, aspects of veterans' war service seem directly predictive of their partners' rates of depression. There is also a disparity between the wives' rates of psychiatric disorder and their rates of healthcare utilization. In BULLETIN October 2010 Page 10 particular, wives who have veterans with PTSD have lower rates of health service utilisation than other wives. This suggests that greater attention is needed to ensuring adequate assessment and treatment of veterans partners, particularly if the veteran has PTSD. Concluding Remarks: Our results reinforce the need to continue surveillance of veteran health and to take into consideration the impact of war service and combat exposure on veterans' intimate partners when future studies of veterans are undertaken. Higher rates of mental ill-health in both veterans and their partners may have major implications for the mental health of their offspring. The ANZAC Institute is pressing ahead with plans for a study of the veterans' children – to get whole families into the study would be a unique resource to study the long term effects of war service on veterans and their families and to pinpoint ways in which interventions might be put in place in a timely way to head off the problems that I am now seeing in the veterans of Vietnam and their wives. I would urge you to get behind this effort and tell governments and possible sponsors that studies of this nature are not just political exercises to assuage the cries of the strident masses, but have the potential, not just for saving money in compensation, but for improvement of the lives of the men and women who serve their country as part of Australia's defence commitments. LOCAL LANDMARKS A bridge downstream of the Victoria Bridge was part of a larger plan, devised by Professor Roger Hawken of the University of Queensland in the 1920s, for a series of bridges over the Brisbane River to alleviate congestion on Victoria Bridge (1897) and to divert traffic away from the CBD. In 1932, the William Jolly Bridge (built upstream of the Victoria Bridge) was the first of the Hawken Plan bridges to be constructed but a lack of funds at the time precluded the construction of a bridge downstream. The initial plans was for a transporter bridge in the vicinity of New Farm, however, in 1926 the Brisbane City Council's Cross River Commission recommended the construction of a bridge across the Brisbane River between Fortitude Valley and Kangaroo Point. This bridge was constructed as a public works program during the Great Depression. Construction began on 24 May 1935, the spans were linked on 28 October 1938 and it was finally opened to traffic on 6 July 1940. During construction, the bridge was known as the Jubilee Bridge in honour of King George V but was eventually named the Story Bridge after John Douglas Story, a senior and influential public servant who had advocated strongly for the bridge's construction. The Story Bridge is a cantilever bridge spanning the Brisbane River. It carries three lanes of traffic in either direction as well as a shared pedestrian and cycle way flanking each side. The BULLETIN October 2010 Page 11 road on the bridge is called the Bradfield Highway, and is the shortest highway in Australia. It is not to be confused with the Bradfield Highway that spans the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Initially a toll of sixpence (5 cents) was charged to use the bridge. The design of the Story Bridge is based heavily on that of the Jacques Cartier Bridge in Montreal, completed in 1930. Next month: John Douglas Story (1869-1966) 2010 National Final of the Legacy Junior Public Speaking Award The 2010 National Final of the Legacy Junior Public Speaking Award will be held in Melbourne: Date: Monday, 8 November, 2010 Venue: Telstra Corporate Centre, Level 1, 242 Exhibition Street, Melbourne Time: Approximately 9.30 a.m. start (to be confirmed) For further information, please contact Lisa Bennett, Secretary, Executive Services at Melbourne Legacy on (03) 9663 3564 or by email to firstname.lastname@example.com BULLETIN October 2010 Page 12 FROM THESE OUR NEXT LEADERS WILL EMERGE L/Mary Lacy sent in the following for the enjoyment of members: All are questions from a school exam and are genuine answers (from 16 year olds. Q: Name the four seasons. A: Salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar. Q: Explain one of the processes by which water can be A: Flirtation makes water safe to drink because it removes made safe to drink. large pollutants like grit, sand, dead sheep and canoeists. 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The Magic Pudding is a pie, except when it's something else, like a steak, or a jam donut, or an apple dumpling, or whatever its owner wants it to be. And it never runs out. No matter how many slices you cut, there's always something left over. It's magic. But the Magic Pudding is also alive. It walks and it talks and it's got a personality like no other. A meaner, sulkier, snider, snarlinger Pudding you've never met. So Bunyip Bluegum (the koala bear) finds out when he joins Barnacle Bill (the sailor) and Sam Sawnoff (the penguin bold) as members of the Noble Society of Pudding Owners, whose "members are required to wander along the roads, indulgin' in conversation, song and story, and eatin' at regular intervals from the Pudding." Wild and woolly, funny and outrageously fun, The Magic Pudding stands somewhere between Alice in Wonderland and The Stinky Cheese Man as one of the craziest books ever written for young readers.
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Norman Lindsay (1879-1970) wrote The Magic Pudding to settle an argument with a friend who claimed that children liked to read about fairies. Lindsay argued instead that they liked to read about food. The author of several novels, Lindsay was also a caricaturist, sculptor, painter, and pen-and-ink artist renowned in Australia and beyond.
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"This is the funniest children's book ever written. I've been laughing at it for fifty years, and when I read it again this morning, I laughed as much as I ever did."-- Philip Pullman, from the introduction "A robust fantasy, The Magic Pudding was first published in 1918 but shows few signs of its age. It's part of a handsome, new collection of reprints, published by The New York Review of Books, aimed at rescuing neglected children's classics from 'the dustbins of history'. There's no dust on Lindsay's quirky tale about the adventures of Bunyip Bluegum, an irrepressible, polite young koala. He meets various eccentric characters who bust into song and rhyme. In the introduction to the new edition, Philip Pullman, author of "The Amber Spyglass," calls Lindsay's work 'the funniest children's book ever written...You can feel Lindsay carried away on the wings of his own energy'."-- "USA Today," "Holiday Books" "The illustrations are great fun, the characters burst into comic verse at the drop of a hat, and it's hard to resist."-- "The Horn Book" "The book is full of songs that pitch along like boats on a rough sea. The tremendous black and white drawings are full of ne'er do well character...It is an outrage that it is not on every English family's menu."-- "The Observer"