210:. Appointed by the Australia Government, Pascarl served for several years as National Vice Chair of the Australian Defence Force Reserves, Defence Reserves Support Council, being the first woman to serve on the National Executive. She oversaw Army, Navy and Air Force. As well as sitting on several boards from ANVAM to the Governing Board of International Social Services in Geneva, Switzerland. Jacqueline Pascarl was issued with Letters Patent by the Governor General of Australia when she received the Order of Australia on behalf of HM Queen Elizabeth in 2022. She is now styled Jacqueline Pascarl OAM. She is an Independent Director and Trustee of national charity, RSL Australia, the peak body representing Defence Force Veterans in Australia.
97:. They legally separated in the mid 1990s and formally divorced in 2000. Pascarl married Bill Crocaris in 2002 who was erroneously reported as a school friend, however he was much younger than Pascarl. She and Crocaris have two children. They divorced in 2012. Pascarl is very happily married to a dental surgeon and lives quietly with their children in Melbourne where she continues to run humanitarian agency, Operation Angel being active during the 2020 bushfire emergency and other war and natural disasters and remains very active in her community.== Career ==
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Melbourne. In August 2006, her son Iddin, now 23, returned to
Australia to visit his mother after fourteen years of separation.." Upon the return of his wife's abducted daughter Shah in 2006, her husband Bill was the spokesperson for his wife to the media pack that had formed outside of their house. Jacqueline is now in contact with her children most days.
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