Hours after releasing a controversial policy, the CEO of the Returned and Services League in Western Australia was punched in the head and fell to the ground as he left his workplace on Friday evening.
The assailant ran off.
Any other 65–year old man punched in the head — particularly a 65-year old member of a service and welfare organisation — would have elicited a wave of public sympathy but we live in different times.
Perth has a reputation as a violent city.
RSLWA boss John McCourt went on talkback radio Friday trying to defend the unusual new policy that discouraged the organisation’s 130 branches from holding Welcome to Country services and...
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