Today marks an important milestone in the Albanese Government\u2019s implementation of the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Parliament has passed the Defence and Veterans\u2019 Service Commissioner Bill 2025 and the Defence and Veterans\u2019 Service Commissioner (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This realises the full intent of Recommendation 122 \u2013 the recommendation the Royal Commission deemed it\u2019s most important \u2013 to establish a new statutory entity to oversee system reform across the whole Defence and veteran ecosystem, the Defence and Veteran Service Commission (DVSC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Commission is focused on improving suicide prevention and wellbeing outcomes for current and former serving Australian Defence Force members by providing independent oversight and evidence-based advice to the Australian Government and Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The passage of this legislation is consistent with the Government\u2019s commitment to enacting standalone legislation for the Defence and Veterans\u2019 Service Commissioner and Commission, following the swift passage of the enabling legislation in February 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Bill also reflects the Government\u2019s response to the recommendations of the Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee report of 29\u202fAugust 2025 on the current enabling legislation, including that the Government transitions the DVSC into standalone legislation, the Commissioner is appointed by the Governor-General and that the Commissioner\u2019s functions include veterans\u2019 families. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Government\u2019s response to the recommendations of the Royal Commission involves the most comprehensive reform ever undertaken to the systems, culture and processes across Defence and the Department of Veterans\u2019 Affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today marks an important milestone in the Albanese Government\u2019s implementation of the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide. The Parliament has passed the Defence and Veterans\u2019 Service Commissioner Bill 2025 and the Defence and Veterans\u2019 Service Commissioner (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2025. This realises the full intent of Recommendation 122 … Continue reading “Defence and Veterans’ Service Commissioner Bill passes Parliament”<\/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-38242","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\/38242","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=38242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38243,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38242\/revisions\/38243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}