Michael Ronaldson (Victoria, Liberal Party, Minister for Veterans’ Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

With your leave, Mr President, I will just finish off the tail end of that important first question. The Mental Health and Wellbeing Transition Study will target both serving and ex-serving personnel to determine their mental, physical and social health status. The second study—the Impact of Combat Study—will comprehensively follow up on the mental, physical and neurocognitive health of personnel deployed to the Middle East area of operations between 2010 and 2012. The third study—the Family and Wellbeing Study—being conducted by the Australian Institute of Family Studies will investigate the impact of military service on the health and wellbeing of the families of serving and ex-serving personnel.

My department has contracted the Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies at the University of Adelaide to lead the Transition and Wellbeing Research Programme. It will be very ably led by Dr Miranda Van Hooff and it will include national experts on veteran mental, physical and social health from the University of Melbourne, the University of New South Wales, Monash University— (Time expired)