House debates

Wednesday, 5 June 2013

Bills

Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2013-2014; Consideration in Detail

10:27 am

Photo of Gai BrodtmannGai Brodtmann (Canberra, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Minister, further to your answer on my mental health question, I am particularly interested to find out what the government is doing for the mental health of our former service personnel. We have heard, as I mentioned before, through the inquiry that we are doing on injured and wounded service personnel from girlfriends and wives that they are usually the first port of call in identifying mental health issues in those soldiers who have returned from deployments overseas and who are suffering mental health issues. So I am particularly interested to find out what the government is actually doing for the mental health of former service personnel.

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