{"id":33193,"date":"2015-04-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/rsl-still-necessary\/"},"modified":"2015-04-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T00:00:00","slug":"rsl-still-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/rsl-still-necessary\/","title":{"rendered":"RSL still necessary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>With membership declining and branches closing, do we still need the RSL?<\/h3>\n<p>RSL State President Tim Hanna says the answer is yes.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Hanna told FIVEAA breakfast about its importance for young soldiers returning from battlefields today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOutside of government there is only one organisation in Australia that\u2019s got the infrastructure and the resources to look after that individual for the next 80 years of their life, and that\u2019s the RSL.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But he said the RSL was for \u201cveterans whether they be 95 or 18\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Hanna said it was no surprise that membership has been \u201cdeclining since the end of World War II\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s inevitable and totally understandable.\u201d But he added that the RSL is \u201cincreasingly attracting young members\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LISTEN to the full interview here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/200845853&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-mark-jane\/patrick-dangerfield-spills-on-phil-walsh\">DANGERFIELD SPILLS THE BEANS ON PHIL WALSH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/her-husband-doesn-t-look-like-this-anymore\">HER HUSBAND DOESN&#8217;T LOOK LIKE THIS ANYMORE!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With membership declining and branches closing, do we still need the RSL? RSL State President Tim Hanna says the answer is yes. Mr Hanna told FIVEAA breakfast about its importance for young soldiers returning from battlefields today. \u201cOutside of government there is only one organisation in Australia that\u2019s got the infrastructure and the resources to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":23873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-33193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-david-and-will","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>RSL still necessary - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/rsl-still-necessary\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"RSL still necessary\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With membership declining and branches closing, do we still need the RSL? 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