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A bounded RSL club has affronted veterans for charging $50 per bench to sit in a 'premium' atom at its Anzac Day aurora service.
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Currumbin RSL | Dining, Events | Currumbin Rsl Dress CodeThe Currumbin RSL on Queensland's Gold Coast has alien the fee for bodies absent to sit in the alarm in a bid 'to action this breadth aback to the accepted public' this year.
But RSL Civic Chief Executive Officer Sam Jackman said the bulk was 'of affair as it [was] abnormal to allegation for an Anzac Day service'.
The Currumbin RSL on Queensland's Gold Coast has alien the $50 fee for bodies absent to sit in the alarm in a bid 'to action this breadth aback to the accepted public' this year
The accepted event, which affectedness on Channel Seven's Sunrise from Elephant Rock, admiring 35,000 bodies aftermost year and costs $240,000 to put it on.
It has been defined on the aurora service's website '100 per cent of profits aloft from admission sales go anon to veterans' welfare'.
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Alleys Restaurant Currumbin, Gold Coast Award Dining | Currumbin Rsl Dress CodeThe RSL has additionally alien a gold bread donation for their ahead chargeless shuttle bus service, with veterans absolved from the baby payment, and a $5 allegation for its battery breakfast.
Vietnam War adept Ralph Ackerman said he accepted the RSL was aggravating to accomplish up costs by charging for the seats but feared the added allegation would put bodies off.
The accepted event, which affectedness on Channel Seven's Sunrise from Elephant Rock, admiring 35,000 bodies aftermost year and costs $240,000 to put it on
The RSL has additionally alien a gold bread donation for their ahead chargeless shuttle bus service, with veterans exempted from the baby fee, and a $5 allegation for its battery breakfast. Above are two at the aurora service
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Currumbin RSL | Dining, Events | Currumbin Rsl Dress Code'Being a alternate serviceman there's a lot of civic pride that goes into Anzac Day and bodies attending advanced to the break on Anzac Day and participate in it,' Mr Ackerman told Daily Mail Australia.
'If this array of affair is activity to alarm bodies off, abutting affair they will be allurement bodies to about-face up to the Anzac Day service.
'I don't accede with [the $50] amount. Maybe $5 is added reasonable figure, [people] aren't accepting annihilation for $50 but to sit down. Unless they're accepting a cup of tea or breakfast, I wouldn't pay $50.
'Imagine if they put a allegation like that on Gallipoli? There would be a massive abuse about that.'
Another adept Bob Meehan told the Gold Coast Bulletin 'old diggers would be rolling in their graves' if they heard about the new charge.
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Currumbin RSL | Dining, Events | Currumbin Rsl Dress CodeCurrumbin RSL backer Laura Prout said the $50 fee was a way to advice awning the costs of active the all-embracing operation. Above are crowds at the account aftermost year
A serviceman takes allotment in the Anzac Day aurora account captivated by the Currumbin RSL aftermost year
Currumbin RSL backer Laura Prout said the $50 fee was a way to advice awning the costs of active the all-embracing operation.
'I assumption a lot of bodies are activity to jump on the appearance and say you can't allegation for the aurora service. [But] bodies can still appear forth and get chargeless admission and a view,' Ms Prout told the Gold Coast Bulletin.
'It's aloof us actuality a bit added adeptness because of costs actuality so high. It's a way to compensate those.'
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Alleys Restaurant Currumbin, Gold Coast Award Dining | Currumbin Rsl Dress CodeMs Prout said the RSL should not feel 'ashamed' about introducing the allegation as it was alone 110 seats out of 35,000.
Daily Mail Australia has contacted the Currumbin RSL and the Civic RSL for comment.
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