April 17, 2016 12:00am Paul Toohey News Corp Australia Network NEWS Corp Australia has asked the Department of Veterans’ Affairs a series of questions. Here are their responses below. 1. When will DVA fully digitise its systems so that claims officers can view claims on line? New Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA) client records are […]
17 April 2016 Australians Reunited The Minister for Veterans’ Affairs and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Centenary of ANZAC, Dan Tehan, today announced arrangements were in place for the repatriation of Australians from cemeteries in Malaysia and Singapore to Australia, in June 2016. In May 2015, the former Prime Minister, the Hon. Tony […]
The 2016 Inter-Brigade Rugby Competition is on again, show-casing all that is good about Army rugby. This year, the competition will be expanded to seven teams; in addition to men’s and women’s teams from 1, 3, 6 , 7, 16 and 17 Brigades, the Combined Arms Training Centre (CATC) will also be entering teams. My […]
The Autumn 2016 edition contains recent DVA and veteran news, as well as useful health and wellbeing information and tips. The full Autumn issue of Vetaffairs is available online here – http://www.dva.gov.au/about-dva/publications/vetaffairs/vol-32-no-1-autumn-2016 You can now view this issue in interactive Realview pdf format and you might also be interested in our new online noticeboard. Some of the stories […]
Join them in a live concert on Thursday 21st April 2016 at The Triffid 7 Stratton Street Newstead. Doors 7 pm. MC is Rupert McCall Two close mates – one’s a master songwriter and one’s a master guitar player. These two blokes are fair dinkum. Funny, irreverant, thought-provoking and passionately Australian. No big hats, no […]
I am not a badge of honour, I am not a racist smear, I am not a fashion statement, To be worn but once a year, I am not glorification Of conflict or of war. I am not a paper ornament A token, I am more. I am a loving memory, Of a father or […]
KOREA We didn’t do much talking, We didn’t raise a fuss, But Korea really happened, So please-remember us, We all just did our duty, But we didn’t win or lose, A victory was denied us, But we never got to choose, We all roasted in the summer, In the winter, damn near froze, Walking back […]
Are you a veteran of Afghanistan or Iraq? You are invited to take part in a study conducted by Brenda Laskey, a PhD student researcher from The University of Melbourne’s School of Languages and Linguistics. In this research project, we want to collect real stories about military service overseas. We aim to find out more […]
Effects of Traumatic Brain Injury and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder on Alzheimer’s disease in Australian war veterans What is the purpose of the study? The aim of the study is to find out if traumatic brain injury (TBI) and/or post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has long term impacts on memory and the risk of Alzheimer’s […]
JOINT MEDIA RELEASE THE HON DAN TEHAN MP MINISTER FOR VETERANS’ AFFAIRS and SENATOR THE HON MARISE PAYNE MINISTER FOR DEFENCE The Government welcomes the contribution of the Senate Reference Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade’s report into the mental health of Australian Defence Force (ADF) members and veterans and will carefully consider the Inquiry report […]
Introduction to Myths & Legends [an address by Dr Brian O’Toole, posted with his permission] Dr Brian O’Toole from Sydney University’s Brain & Mind Research Institute is an epidemiologist with a long interest in the health of Vietnam veterans and the health consequences of war service. He has worked on the Australian ‘agent orange’ scientific […]
Work has commenced on an independent history that will document and analyse the medical legacies of the Vietnam War. The volume, commissioned by the Council of the Australian War Memorial, will be written by Dr Peter Yule, a research fellow at the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. Dr Yule […]
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