Fight goes on as defence suicide reforms slowly kick in
A mother who successfully lobbying for a royal commission of defense and senior suicide says that people are still fighting for justice and accountability as reforms are introduced.
Matt Kegh, Minister of Veterans Affairs, told Parliament on Thursday, almost a year after the final report of the investigation was applied.
David Finney, the Royal Australian navy, the son of Julie-Ann Finney, received his own life in 2019.
Ms. Finney, who carried her son’s photographs, said that she was “a little scared” while giving her hope of progress.
However, there was still a long way to reform the defense culture, he said, ın Do not register until the fixed one ”.
“There is still a lot of bullying, and people are still fighting for justice and accountability, Fin said Finney.
Mr. Keogh said that the government wanted the Australians to join the army and to know that they and their families would be looked at.
Iz We will continue to do the right to take action as quickly as possible on the Royal Commission, ”he said.
“This is the least thing we can do.”
The worker responded in December and accepted the overwhelming majority of the Commission’s 122 proposals.
In 2024, a task force established to guide the reforma, a defense and the establishment of a service commission of veterans and the handling of military sexual abuse.
The commission, which is held within three months of the government’s reaction, will receive $ 44.5 million for four years and will lead to the implementation of other proposals.
The government will hire a commission member to manage the body of the body until the end of September.
Sexual abuse remained as a “systemic” issue for the Australian defense force, and the government accepted an independent investigation on the issue.
Keogh said that the defense force personnel convicted of sexual crimes convicted of sexual crimes would be in force by the end of 2025.
The studies continue to ensure that the crimes of the troops convicted of serious crimes during military service to receive a civilian record.
This includes cooperation between civil institutions and government offices to feed records to the National Police Reference System.
Opposition Veterans Spokesperson Darren Chester accused Mr. Keogh of “putting lipstick on a pig”.
“It was extraordinary for the minister to come here and to try to act as a good reform when he deprived our veterans and families of their rights,” he said.
Mr. Chester said that he agreed to the Parliament with wide themes in the Royal Commission, but his findings faced the risk of a wrong expression of “despair, helplessness and helplessness”.
Green Defense Spokesman David Shoebridge said no one thinks that confident cultural changes have taken place.
“My office continues to receive news from the current and former members of the ADF, who is bullying, underestimated and complained about sexual violence in ADF,” he said.
“But I think it would be wrong to say that no progress has been made.”
Following the Royal Commission, an independent investigation by the Australian Defense Force General Inspector began claiming that the military justice system was “armed” to harm some personnel in 2024.
The Royal Commission found the service of 1677, and the former defense personnel died with suicide between 1997-2021 – more than 20 times the number of active murdered in the same period.
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