ARMY NEWS GOES MOBILE: We have launched an official FREE app for viewing current and past editions online. The app is available through iTunes for iOS smart phones and tablets, and Google Play for Android devices. Simply search ‘Army News Australia’ in either the...
Exercise Physiology for veterans, war widows, current and ex-Australian Defence members. DVA pays for clinically necessary treatment! Entitled Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA) clients may be referred for clinically necessary Exercise Physiology treatment by...
After waiting for more than 50 years, the family of Campbelltown Private Christopher Clark will watch their dream come true when his body is finally returned home to Australian soil during one of the largest single repatriations of servicemen and personnel in the...
Media Release Minister for Veterans’ Affairs 29 May 2016 Australia will welcome home 33 Australian service personnel and dependents, including 22 Vietnam War veterans, on Thursday, 2 June in one of the largest, single military repatriations in this country’s history....
Once a proud young soldier standing on parade Now a homeless nomad shivering in icy rain Cold concrete for a mattress and a newspaper blanket newly made Sleep broken with blinking frames of past horror, agony and pain Another...
The Australian Federation of Totally and Permanently Incapacitated Ex-Servicemen & Women (TPI), is petitioning the Prime Minister to restore the economic loss component of the Veteran’s Special Rate (SR) and TPI compensation payments to 100% of the tax adjusted...
The Minister for Veterans’ Affairs and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Centenary of ANZAC, Dan Tehan, today officially opened the Vietnam Veterans’ Association of Australia’s 2016 National Congress in Canberra. Mr Tehan paid tribute to the some 60,000...
May 26, 2016 8:27am ROSS EASTGATE Townsville Bulletin IT’S cold comfort for some Australian veterans but this week a British parliamentary report recommended Lariam be used as an antimalarial drug only in very restricted cases. Produced by Swiss pharmaceutical...
Sebastian Junger an American war reporter of 15 years of experience reporting on combat in Iraq and Afghanistan returns home to experience a panic episode that reveals he has a problem. "Later, I found out that what I had was short-term PTSD: post-traumatic stress...
A Changing Nation. True to Alvin Toffler’s “Future Shock”, the world is changing at a rapid pace. In my view, we have been found wanting in our ability to cope. Our so called democracy is slowly but surely being eroded. Those thought police listening, watching,...
