An Albanese Labor Government will fix the crisis in Veterans\u2019 Affairs and restore the respect our veterans and their families deserve.
Under this government, the backlog of unresolved claims for veterans\u2019 support has blown out to 60,000. It took one of Mr Morrison\u2019s own Ministers to threaten to resign over the issue before the Prime Minister even took any notice.
Day after day, the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide is hearing the devastating impact this failure is having on veterans and their families.
This is a national disgrace which must be addressed.
Today Labor is announcing a $519.2 million plan to repair a decade of damage and neglect, and strengthen the services veterans and their families count on.
Labor\u2019s plan includes: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
These commitments are in addition to Labor\u2019s already announced policies of $30 million for emergency housing for veterans experiencing homelessness, and $38.1 million for veteran-led disaster response organisation Disaster Relief Australia.
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Anthony Albanese, Labor Leader said:<\/strong> Brendan O\u2019Connor, Shadow Defence Minister said:<\/strong> Shayne Neumann, Shadow Veterans Affairs and Defence Personnel Minister said:<\/strong> An Albanese Labor Government will fix the crisis in Veterans\u2019 Affairs and restore the respect our veterans and their families deserve. Under this government, the backlog of unresolved claims for veterans\u2019 support has blown out to 60,000. It took one of Mr Morrison\u2019s own Ministers to threaten to resign over the issue before the Prime … Continue reading “Labor Will End the Veterans\u2019 Crisis”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16288,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16287\/revisions\/16288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u201cThe crisis in Veterans\u2019 Affairs is a national disgrace.
\u201cFor so many of our veterans, the war does not end when they leave the battlefield. Just as they stepped up for us, we must step up for them.\u201d
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\u201cThe ADF\u2019s best asset are the men and women who serve it.
\u201cThey need to know that the respect and support they get during their service years doesn\u2019t disappear the moment they transition to civilian life.
\u201cLabor\u2019s comprehensive package will allow our serving men and women today to focus on their jobs today knowing they don\u2019t have to worry about tomorrow.\u201d
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\u201cAs Minister Gee said only a few weeks ago, the Morrison Government blow out in claims processing times is a national disgrace.
\u201cDefence personnel, veterans and their families feel disrespected and disregarded by this Prime Minster who only shows up when he needs something from them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"