📹 Please watch the short video about this campaign:

https://youtu.be/QNyIWjJf3cI?si=xSmK09HN1aAmbKQl

A Date Shouldn’t Decide Your Worth

I’m Jamie, I’m 12 and I’ve seen the pain, the surgeries, and I’ve heard the nightmares of my dad, just like so many kids like me… and their families.

We’ve watched injured frontline workers suffer after serving and protecting our community.

And here’s the brutal truth:

The government created TWO classes of injured frontline workers — all because of one date: 5 February 2020.

If you were medically retired after that date, you’re recognised.

If you were injured before it, you’re forgotten.

Same danger.

Same sacrifice.

Same injuries.

Only the date is different.

The danger didn’t magically start on 5 February 2020.

Police, Fire and Ambulance officers were getting seriously hurt long before that day — risking their lives to protect ours.

And here’s the kicker… the precedent ALREADY exists.

The National Police Service Medal is already retrospective to 1975.

Injured police who couldn’t complete the years still qualify — because the system recognises their sacrifice.

So why not the National Medal?

On top of that:

The systems already exist to award medals retrospectively.

Police, Ambulance and Fire services already have the records to do it.
Other national medals already use retrospective provisions.

So the claim that “it’s too hard” or “records don’t exist” doesn’t hold up.

It can be done — because Australia already does it.

Is this fair?

Imagine two officers injured at the same job, same time.

You get discharged in January 2020.

Your partner in March 2020.

They get the National Medal.

You don’t ! 

That’s not recognition.

That’s not justice.

That’s not Australia.

This isn’t just about a medal —

it’s about fair recognition for the people who gave everything.

Too many who served and suffered are forgotten.

Their careers gone.

Their health gone.

Their families carrying the pain in silence.

For some, this recognition could mean the difference between feeling 6ft under or 6ft taller.

Let’s Fix It

We’re calling on the Australian Government to make the National Medal fair:

Apply the 2020 amendment retrospectively back to 1975 — just like the National Police Service Medal already does.

The police, Ambos, Firefighter have the records of the medically charged injured! 

The systems exist.

The records exist.

The precedent exists.

Only the will to fix it is missing.