What do I have to do to get help?

By: Jim (Registered ) on 15-10-2007 04:18

This went to main-stream media and all politicians some time ago.The full tale is much worse. Its the story of Jim Riddle. 
Jim Wiltshire  
Dear Sir, 
 
I have been using ordinary mail and email in the past months in my desperate attempts to communicate to you my serious isolated physical and psychiatric concerns your department will not address. Because your office have refused to reply to my repeated requests, other health issues which could have been resolved by responsible acceptance from your Department, have now escalated and caused aggravation of my PTSD and mental health issue into major health problems 
 
Your office and your department know I was unfit for employment during the ten year period prior to my 65th birthday. Although I was unaware of the PTSD cause and effect throughout. Both you and your department know I was “shanghaied” out of the regular army by my own RAR officers after a discrete psychiatric evaluation that I then knew nothing about. In the words of the “referred shrink”, I was a shell shocked mentally ill soldier. The system and service I served and trusted as a regular professional soldier betrayed me. Minister you know I was “discarded with indifference and contempt by my then employer”. You also know that if the Army my employer had done the right thing, I should have been medically discharged with the appropriate DFRB medical disability superannuation and guided into physical and psychiatric veteran care. You know I was “discarded as an unwanted damaged combat soldier without any support or understanding that I was mentally ill as defined by my employer, aka the Army, aka My Country Australia. 
 
Yes cast adrift, then I was locked out of and denied my home and isolated for 31years without the emotional support of my fellow veterans and or the ESO’s who had I been in Australia, would have given me the emotional support that my former diggers had. Being denied access to Australia since 1975, I knew nothing of the requirements or even symptoms of PTSD, and I certainly cannot be expected to know that I could, or had to apply before age 65 let alone that the DVA support system was there for us damaged diggers. 
 
...the (4 Month)late application was caused by DIMIA error, their error in saying I was not an Aussie Citizen when I was, and they had the records to prove that.."

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