After years of campaigning by bereaved families, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced the creation of a permanent national commissioner to investigate suicides among Defence Force personnel and veterans.The commissioner will look at ways to curb the suicide rate among current and former personnelThe commissioner will deliver a report to Parliament within 12 months
Although it is not a royal commission, Mr Morrison said the new role will have similar powers and will investigate individual cases alongside state and territory coroners. He said the new National Commissioner for Defence and Veteran Suicide Prevention will lead an independent and permanent office tasked with looking at ways to curb the suicide rate among the Defence Force community.
"Those veterans and all serving men and women protect our community and our freedoms. It is our duty to do the same for them," Mr Morrison said in a statement.
He and his mates sent them off to war, bit late with the empathy card.
Good move! Now ScottyfromMarketing how about a FederalICAC! auspol
Very cynical re timing if this announcement....
PM we have a problem.....Hmmmm, 💡 open up another government department and give it to one of my mates problem solved
I am a survivor of suicide, Scott Morrison (ScoMo) ScottMorrisonMP. Would you like to hear my story of what caused it? Who else would like to be heard about what caused your suicide struggle?
One has a very simple remedy for lowering the rate of ADF suicides...... Australia should stop blindly following the US into every conflict the US is engaged in.
So why hasn't the LNP acted on this before? What, not Labor's fault again, surely! how long has the LNP been in government? Is it weeks? Months? I am pretty sure they have won the last three elections, so years then! ScottMorrisonMP AlboMP
🙄don’t pretend to have any moral compass, let alone one that points toward civic duties ScottMorrisonMP Omg Mr Jones, this is out of control AlanJones
Good - this is actually useful.
If you need an RC into veterans' suicides then that tells you the DVA has utterly failed in it's duties. Recent Ministers include: D.Chester (current), M.McCo whatshisname, D.Tehan, S.Robert .. should all hang their heads in shame.
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