Minister for Veterans’ Affairs Mr Dan Tehan today encouraged Australians to visit The Anzac Portal website after a recent renovation. The Anzac Portal website aims to promote awareness of Australia’s wartime history.  Mr Tehan said the portal now contained information and educational resources spanning campaigns from the First World War to contemporary military and peacekeeping operations. To coincide […]

Address by George Mansford (Cairns 18 August 2017) Today throughout our nation there will be gatherings such as ours to reflect on our involvement in the Vietnam War and above all, to honour our fallen. In doing so, we also pay our deepest respect to yet another generation of our military currently on operations. It […]

TWO events this week demonstrated Australia’s enduring leadership in regional military affairs. It can be a long time between drinks in military circles, where it is usually the experience old friendships can be instantly rekindled even after long separations. Such is now the case with Vietnam where after a visit this week by Defence Minister […]

The first Kookaburra Kids Foundation camp for children of current and former Australian Defence Force (ADF) families affected by mental illness will take place this weekend. The camp will give the children the opportunity to have fun in a supportive environment while also learning about mental illness and developing coping and resilience skills. More than […]

The Hon Amanda Rishworth MP Shadow Minister for Veterans’ Affairs replies to the DVA Minister Tehan’s address to Parliament. see the video here

The first annual Ministerial Statement on Veterans and Their Families.was tabled in the House of Representatives today 14th August 2017 “As the Prime Minister has said, in these centenary years of Anzac, we best honour the Diggers of the First World War by supporting the servicemen and women, the veterans and the families of today. […]

PARSONS, Marcus Charles Late of Pullenvale. Passed away peacefully on 09.08.2017. Aged 63 Years Beloved Husband of Debbie. Much loved Father of Five. Relatives and Friends are respectfully invited to attend a Celebration of  his Life, to be held in the Chapel of Centenary Memorial  Gardens, Corner Wacol Station and Wolston Roads, Sumner, on Tuesday, 15.08.2017, at 3 p. m. […]

SBS Insight Tuesday, August 15, 2017 – 20:30 Are our soldiers equipped for the transition to everyday life? This week, Insight speaks with veterans to see how prepared they were for civilian life and what can be done to make it easier. READ MORE

TWO years ago the ambitious but hapless Stuart Robert was given a dual responsibility as minister for both Veterans’ Affairs and Human Services. Veterans were rightly concerned Canberra bureaucrats had finally achieved their longheld ambition to subsume veterans entitlements into the wider health and welfare pool. If that was indeed the plan, Robert’s personal ineptitude […]

THE Department of Veterans’ Affairs has been forced to allay fears it will be scrapped and ­responsibilities shifted to the Department of Human Services after a social media post went viral at the weekend. DVA and Defence Personnel Minister Dan Tehan said in a statement that the Government was committed to a stand-alone Department of […]