RSL boss Mick Bainbridge made the call as analysis shows the $1.3 million that clubs donated to veteran welfare is about the same that one club donated to its own golf club.
The boss of the NSW Returned and Services League says licensed clubs should stop using the RSL letters in their names because it is creating public confusion between the veterans’ charity and gambling dens, as a new analysis shows just 4 per cent of RSL club donations goes to returned soldiers.
But it allowed the clubs to keep the RSL letters in their names, and they remained closely affiliated, as many veterans were members of their RSL sub-branch as well as their local RSL club where they went to socialise. “The real RSL – the veteran support not-for-profit – is about care and welfare, and we would like to see our name protected. It’s time for clubs to change the name that they adopted 60 years ago; frankly, it must be returned.”
Seven Hills Toongabbie RSL Club made a similar contribution to the maintenance of its golf course via two separate grants of more than $600,000 to a pro golf shop and a greenkeeping outfit, while the Woolgoolga Diggers Club donated $530,000 to its course. It has also recommended that the approximately 170 clubs that use defence-related branding – including Diggers, Memorial and Soldiers clubs, and those that use imagery such as RAAF aircraft, soldier silhouettes, poppies or weaponry – be required to contribute to this category.
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