Enough inquiries that go nowhere – it's time for a royal commission into veteran suicide
- Written by Deborah Morris, Military analyst, Griffith University
The government’s slogan is 'putting veterans and their families first', but on the problem of veteran suicide, it has fallen short. Glenn Hunt/AAPBetween 2001 and 2016, 373 Australian veterans took their lives, according to a study commissioned by the Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA). The study noted that male veterans under the...
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