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Royal Commission into Defence & Veteran Suicide

The Royal Commission hands over lived experience book to the Governor General

“Shining a Light – Stories of Trauma & Tragedy, Hope & Healing” Yesterday the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide handed over its Lived Experience book “Shining a Light – Stories of Trauma & Tragedy, Hope & Healing” to the Governor General. The book was subsequently released by the Government later in the afternoon. […]

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The direct impact of our Advocacy Program

This article shows how our Advocacy work over the last few years has helped Veteran Families, including war widows.  Since 2021, we have advocated on 65 issues for the benefit of veterans families, including war widows. There has been positive progress against 14 of these issues with 9 being achieved and 5 being partially achieved.  

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The Unique Nature of YOUR service

This year marks 50 years on from when Australia withdrew from Vietnam. While this war bought lessons and progress to the programs and services on offer to veterans, there has been very limited movement on the support available to their families. Since 2014, we as a sector have had access to information and data about

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Veterans\’ Legislation Reform Update

A message from AWWNSW CEO Renee Wilson Last week I attended a legislation consultation round table where the Minister for Veterans Affairs, The Hon Matt Keogh MP and DVA discussed the approach to veterans’ legislation reform. I wanted to take this opportunity to share with you my key takeaways from that meeting and our next steps.

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Have your say and help shape a future free from gender-based violence

Have your say and help shape a future free from gender-based violence in Australia.  It is important that the voices of those within the Defence and Veteran community are heard.  We know far too little about gender-based violence within the Defence and Veteran community. We know it exists, we know that women who experience it

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