ADF Members and Veterans in WA Urged to Share Experiences Ahead of Defence Suicide Hearings
The Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide is calling for submissions from current and former Australian Defence Force (ADF)...
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Change of plans: Transition options available for ADF personnel in wake of COVID-19
Defence personnel wanting to remain in the ADF are encouraged to contact their service career manager or transition coach.
Change of plans: Transition options available for ADF personnel in wake of COVID-19
Change of plans: Transition options available for ADF personnel in wake of COVID-19
Defence personnel wanting to remain in the ADF are encouraged to contact their service career manager or transition coach.
Defence personnel wanting to remain in the ADF are encouraged to contact their service career manager or transition coach.
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Royal Commission into
Defence and Veteran Suicide
Mark Schroffel
- Nov 21, 2022
Riverina veteran support organisation making a world of difference needs $1.5m to secure facility
The eighth public hearing of the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide will be heard in Wagga Wagga between November 28 and...
@AVNHQ
- Nov 9, 2022
RSL to host ESO forum to address Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide
The Returned & Services League of Australia (RSL) has announced it will host a National Forum for Ex-Service Organisations (ESOs), the...
Mark Schroffel
- Nov 7, 2022
Independent veteran community round-tables to provide unfiltered insights for much-needed reform
Members of the veteran community are alert to the dangers in pushing for fast resolution of issues in relation to the findings of the...
@AVNHQ
- Oct 6, 2022
Help available for Victorians impacted or making a submission to the Royal Commission
Melbourne Legacy in partnership with the Victorian State Government has established an easily accessible service to support to those in...
Mark Schroffel
- Sep 30, 2022
Canberra veterans' symposium a feat of grassroots leadership for wellbeing and advocacy
An important event is underway in Canberra today under the leadership of Ian Lindgren who has established a notable coterie of advocates...
@AVNHQ
- Sep 19, 2022
Veterans centre that “shouldn’t need to exist” marks its first year
A year after opening its doors to the nation, a veterans’ centre that admits it shouldn’t need to exist continues to be inundated with...
Andrew McDougall
- Aug 23, 2022
The invisible costs of service life and why fixing DVA is not the only answer
Andrew McDougall writes about the hidden costs of service life and the need to better support the psychological transition to civilian life.
Mark Schroffel
- Aug 17, 2022
RSL’s inadequate consultation in deciding top job
This year, unlike any other year in its recent history, RSL member and community expectations on the performance of the RSL in the...
@AVNHQ
- Jul 15, 2022
Tony Ferris outlines his compelling vision for the RSL if elected National President
AVN's Eamon Hale speaks withTony Ferris about his vision for the RSL and how he plans to achieve it. This is essential viewing for anyone...
Mark Schroffel
- Jun 26, 2022
RSL Australia is clearly trying, but fails to hit the mark
It’s time for the RSL to hold government accountable for its actions to veterans. If it chooses not to, someone else will.
Brian Briggs
- May 31, 2022
DVA’s provisional medical access scheme unfairly prioritises claimants and should be scrapped
Scrapping the injury trial that unfairly prioritises some claimants over others will help clear the claims backlog plaguing DVA
@AVNHQ
- Apr 16, 2022
Grass-roots ESO members disillusioned with DVA and its opaque dealings with ESO leadership
Letter submitted by MAJ Rick Ryan (RTD) After watching the lackluster performance of Liz Cosson DVA on the 14th of April 2022, I am more...
@AVNHQ
- Apr 15, 2022
Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide extended to 17 June 2024
The Attorney General has granted an additional 12 months for the Royal Commission to prepare and deliver its final report, which is now...
Mark Schroffel
- Mar 28, 2022
A defiant Andrew Gee puts veterans ahead of self-interest
In a daring act of defiance, Andrew Gee, Minister for Veterans’ Affairs and Defence Personnel, stood ready to resign over a budget...
@AVNHQ
- Mar 9, 2022
Free legal service for anyone making a submission to Royal Commission into Defence & Veteran Suicide
This article kindly submitted by DAVLS Community Engagement Officer, Nicholas Warren The Defence and Veterans Legal Service (DAVLS) is a...
@AVNHQ
- Dec 23, 2021
Update on Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide, 23 December 2021
The Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide held its first block of hearings in Brisbane between 29 November – 10 December 2021...
Mark Schroffel
- Dec 11, 2021
AVN.Live: Royal Commission panel discussion and highlights, streaming from 7.30pm 14 December 2021
Tune in for observations and analysis on the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide
Leo D'Angelo Fisher
- Jul 14, 2021
Not even a ‘thank you for your service’ for dumped Bernadette Boss
Boss clearly did not expect that her role would be suspended while the work of the royal commission was done...
Mark Schroffel
- Jul 9, 2021
Julie-Ann Finney discusses Royal Commission Terms of Reference with Mark Schröffel - 9 July 2021
Julie-Ann Finney speaks to AVN about theTerms of Reference for the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicides...
Shayne Neumann MP
- Jul 2, 2021
A ‘One-in-100-year opportunity’ – Andrew Gee must get royal commission into veteran suicide right
Andrew Gee, the new Minister for Veterans’ Affairs and Defence Personnel, is the sixth veterans’ affairs minister in eight years...
Bill Westhead
- May 31, 2021
RSL leadership’s ‘abject failure’ on royal commission misreads mood of veterans
RSL National’s TOR submission is an abject failure that supports the lenient and benign stance sought by vested interests...
Leo D'Angelo Fisher
- Apr 26, 2021
Darren Chester should have no role to play in royal commission
There is something deeply perverse about the federal Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, Darren Chester, having a hand in...
Leo D'Angelo Fisher
- Mar 26, 2021
Missing in action: the RSL’s curious resistance to a royal commission into veteran suicides
It’s been a long time since the RSL, at state or national levels, has been in sync with its membership...
Leo D'Angelo Fisher
- Mar 23, 2021
Against the odds, a royal commission into veteran suicides is in sight
It is a rare case of community activism paying off. Julie-Ann Finney has done her son proud...
Jamie Twidale
- Mar 19, 2021
Royal commission into veteran suicides is a matter of trust
As a veteran who has lost mates to suicide, like many veterans and their loved ones I live with the ever-present fear of losing more...
Kate Banville
- Feb 24, 2021
Veteran suicide roundtables document the heavy toll of life after service
Relationship breakdowns and financial stress, as well as physical and emotional injuries, are causing Australia’s veteran suicide crisis...
Mark Schroffel
- Jan 27, 2021
Veteran Suicides // Morrison's willful ignorance
Senator Jacqui Lambie updates @AVNHQ on her recent efforts in Townsville to listen to the veteran community and echo the overwhelming...
Mark Schroffel
- Nov 27, 2020
Veteran suicides: Julie-Ann Finney explains the politics and spin behind Morrison's superficial fix
Julie-Ann Finney explains the politics and spin behind Morrison's superficial fix for veteran suicides.
Mark Schroffel
- Nov 23, 2020
Already broken: Nikki Jamieson exposes serious flaws in Morrison's alternative to a royal commission
Suicide prevention expert Nikki Jamieson explains why must have a royal commission into veteran suicides.
Luke Gosling OAM MP
- Nov 19, 2020
Luke Gosling OAM, MP: "Now more than ever, we need a royal commission. Lest we forget."
When it comes to protecting, supporting, and helping our veterans, Australia is losing the war.
Leo D'Angelo Fisher
- Oct 31, 2020
Bernadette Boss appointment underscores weakness of Morrison’s RC-lite response to veteran suicides
The government proposes a bureaucratic solution to what is a bureaucratic failure.
Mark Schroffel
- Oct 16, 2020
Senator Jacqui Lambie on why we must have a Royal Commission into Veteran Suicides
Jacqui Lambie tells Australian Veteran News why we need a royal commission into veteran suicides.
leodangelofisher
- Sep 30, 2020
Chester’s Q&A fizzer strengthens case for suicides royal commission
Darren Chester demonstrated that he was woefully at a loss to explain the Morrison government’s aversion to a royal commission.
leodangelofisher
- Aug 30, 2020
Morrison's national commissioner for veteran suicides does not negate the need for royal commission
We know that there have been 400-plus known cases of suicide among serving, reserve and veteran personnel since 2001...
Mark Schroffel
- Jun 10, 2020
"If governments took this issue seriously, would I still have my boy?"
Submitted by Julie-Ann Finney, 9 June 2020 Re: Hand on Heart, the Veterans’ Covenant is an insult to veterans Thank you so much for an...
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