Heads up – our new Governor-General Sam Mostyn will be handed the long-awaited Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide’s final report today. Despite the interim report – and 13 urgent recommendations – being handed down back in August 2022, reports say not much is known about what this final document will contain. Amy Cooper – the CEO of veterans’ support organisation, Soldier On – reckons the 3 Commissioners will make “good, clear and concise recommendations” and that they’ll “expect further momentum and traction from government”. Veterans’ advocate Julie-Ann Finney – who lost her son, 38yo Petty Officer David Finney to suicide in 2019 – is pushing for an ongoing body to investigate the broader issues the Commission has uncovered. She says it’s needed “because veterans and serving members and families, we have nowhere to go when anything is really wrong”. 

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