FRED Collett is a true-blue Australian war hero but the Federal Government has turned its back on the 100-year-old World War II Digger in his moment of need.
Mr Collett escaped the clutches of the Germans in a rickety old wooden dinghy at the height of the war, dodging bombs at sea for three weeks to warn fellow soldiers of the enemy advance.
But 69 years after his daring escape from a PoW camp in Greece to the island of Crete in April 1941, the Federal Government has told the ailing war hero "you're not eligible" for compensation.
Mr Collett believes the Government wants him to "hurry up and drop dead" in his rundown shack at Mount Ossa, north of Mackay, after the Department of Veterans' Affairs "controversially" knocked back his claim for a one-off $25,000 payment for being a PoW in Europe.
Its very hard to fathom a government who will gleefully spend hundreds of millions of dollars investing in the suffering and misery of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars but miserly and scrooge like, will deny a 100 year old man a pittance. All I can say is Governments only think in dollar terms and votes NOT in human values and they will only shit on you as soon as you turn your back.
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