Derryn Hinch (Victoria, Derryn Hinch's Justice Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Senator Payne, representing the Minister for Veterans' Affairs. On my frequent trips to regional and rural Victoria I also visit the RSLs to talk to vets. Recently, I did a Q&A with 50 veterans in Ballarat and heard some horror stories—not what happened overseas but what happened after they got home. I told them they had to regard the DVA as the enemy, because they treat you as the enemy. Senator, are you aware of a story on the 7.30 program last night that claimed DVA deliberately deleted an incapacity policy for self-employed vets so that they could deny the compensation claim of veteran Martin Rollins? Has the Minister ordered an investigation into the disgusting treatment of the veteran who had to retire as a paratrooper after damaging his spine?