Matt Keogh (Burt, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Veterans’ Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Solomon for this important question and I thank him also for his ongoing advocacy and support of veterans not just in the electorate of Solomon, which he represents, but across the entire Top End. It was my great pleasure to be able to join the member for Solomon on Monday of this week at the opening of the Mates4Mates Veteran & Family Wellbeing Centre, a family and veterans hub put together with a $5 million contribution from the federal government. This hub will be able to service not just the 7½ thousand veterans across the Darwin region but the 10,000 veterans across the Northern Territory. We're doing this because we have a commitment to making sure that we are best coordinating the services made available to our veterans and their families—

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