Acknowledging the commitment, dedication and sacrifice of our servicemen and servicewomen through commemorations is a significant and important part of Australian culture. Commemorative periods can be emotional. We may have feelings of pride in family and friends who served or continue to serve, grief for those we have lost, sadness for those who come home […]

Article by Ian McPhedran   RENEGADE ride sharing firm Uber will partner with military veterans under a unique deal to be unveiled today.   Veterans or their spouses who sign up as drivers on the uberX platform before December 31 this year will pay no commission for the first three months. That would save a […]

Further to the media statement released on 15 April (see post below) tonight, ADSO is releasing this flyer to increase public awareness of the financial neglect faced by our disabled veterans. Our most vulnerable veterans deserve much better from the Nation they have honourably served. Please help us get the word out to all politicians […]

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 […]