Meg Munn has been briefed by the very civil servants who created this problem in the first place.
To bolster their untenable arguments, she has been given three examples of medals that are in no way similar to the Pingat Jasa Malaysia.
Why was she not given examples that are identical to the PJM. For example the Malta Medal and the Russian Medal (and the other 40-odd that are similar). Both were double medals. Both were recommended for wear 50 years after the events they commemorate.
Let's compare apples with apples and not indulge in this interminable and tasteless spin put out by civil servants just so that Ministers of the Crown, Parliament, the public and the press can be mislead.
These Rules affect ordinary men and women and must be open and understandable - and they must be applied consistently. Not just at the behest of a handful of public servants with an axe to grind.
Barry Fleming
Posted on 14 Mar 2008 3:41 pm
Meg Munn has been briefed by the very civil servants who created this problem in the first place.
To bolster their untenable arguments, she has been given three examples of medals that are in no way similar to the Pingat Jasa Malaysia.
Why was she not given examples that are identical to the PJM. For example the Malta Medal and the Russian Medal (and the other 40-odd that are similar). Both were double medals. Both were recommended for wear 50 years after the events they commemorate.
Let's compare apples with apples and not indulge in this interminable and tasteless spin put out by civil servants just so that Ministers of the Crown, Parliament, the public and the press can be mislead.
These Rules affect ordinary men and women and must be open and understandable - and they must be applied consistently. Not just at the behest of a handful of public servants with an axe to grind.