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From: Terry Fogarty [mailto:Terry.Fogarty5@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, 29 June 2009 9:30 AM
To: 'milcomp.review@dva.gov.au'
Subject: Submission to the Review of Military Compensation Arrangements

This is my submission to the Review of Military Compensation Arrangements.

In accordance with your wishes that you prefer electronic lodgement I have prepared my submission as a self contained web site within my web site.

The hyperlink is: http://amvif.com/government/Review/Review.htm

Another, perhaps easier, way to locate it is to use the hyperlink below my signature: http://amvif.com/

The hyperlink below is prominent near the top of the web page and will take you to the review site.

My Submission to: REVIEW OF MILITARY COMPENSATION ARRANGEMENTS

I, Terence Fogarty

Of:

16 Mann Avenue

Northgate, Brisbane, Qld 4013

hereby grant permission to the Department of Veterans’ Affairs and the Minister

for Veterans’ Affairs to publish my submission to the Review of Military Compensation Arrangements.

Telephone: (07) 3266 6636

Mobile: 0419 668 197

Email: terry.fogarty5@gmail.com

Alternative Email: Terence.fogarty2@three.com.au

Web: http://amvif.com/

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submissions may also be lodged by post. All submissions should be accompanied by a completed form stating whether or not the person making the submission grants permission for it to be published by DVA or the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs.

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I [Name] of [Address] hereby grant permission to the Department of Veterans’ Affairs and the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs to publish my submission to the Review of Military Compensation Arrangements.

Phone:

Terry Fogarty

16 Mann Avenue

Northgate Qld 4013

Australia

Telephone: (07) 3266 6636

Mobile: 0419 668 197

Email: terry.fogarty5@gmail.com

Alternative Email: Terence.fogarty2@three.com.au

Web: http://amvif.com/

-----Original Message-----
From: DVA Military Compensation Review [mailto:milcomp.review@dva.gov.au]
Sent: Monday, 29 June 2009 9:31 AM
To: Terry Fogarty
Subject: Thankyou for your correspondence [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Thank you for your correspondence. It has been received by the review

secretariat.

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possible by the secretariat.

Submissions will not receive individual responses, but will be

considered as part of the review. The secretariat may contact you if

further information is required. Please note that the closing date for

submissions is 30 June 2009.

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From: TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR THE REVIEW OF MILITARY COMPENSATION ARRANGEMENTS

Examine the legislative schemes that govern military compensation prior to the MRCA and identify any anomalies that exist.

Issues falling outside the above Terms of Reference are out of scope of the Review.

There are many definitions of anomaly as being “a deviation from the common rule” etc. A search of Google using the terms “anomaly definition” produces in excess of 2 million hits. Two examples are shown below:

From: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/anomaly

–noun, plural -lies.

1.	a deviation from the common rule, type, arrangement, or form.

2.	someone or something anomalous: With his quiet nature, he was an anomaly in his exuberant family.

3.	an odd, peculiar, or strange condition, situation, quality, etc.

4.	an incongruity or inconsistency.

5.	Astronomy. a quantity measured in degrees, defining the position of an orbiting body with respect to the point at which it is nearest to or farthest from its primary.

6.	Meteorology. the amount of deviation of a meteorological quantity from the accepted normal value of that quantity.

7.	Grammar. irregularity.

From: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anomaly

anom·a·ly

Date:

1603

1 : the angular distance of a planet from its perihelion as seen from the sun

2 : deviation from the common rule : irregularity

3 : something anomalous : something different, abnormal, peculiar, or not easily classified