House debates Questions without Notice

Defence Honours and Awards Appeals Tribunal

Monday, 12 October 2026 House of Representatives

Andrew Wilkie

Andrew Wilkie Clark, Independent

2:34 pm

My question is to the Minister for Defence because Defence normally categorises defence deployments. Minister, the decision to recategorise Rifle Company Butterworth is welcome, but other deployments remain in dispute; for example, the British Commonwealth Occupation Force, Operation Astute, Operation Habitat, and UN observers during the Lebanese Civil War. Anyone challenging disputed categorisations gets the right royal run-around from Defence, who made the original decisions and refuse to admit they got it wrong. Minister, will you finally address this and establish a genuinely independent, merits based review?

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