Vetaffairs — Vol 36 No.2 Winter 2020
The Winter 2020 issue of Vetaffairs.
The Winter 2020 issue of Vetaffairs is now available via the links below. Highlights include:
- Full winner details of the Prime Minister’s Veterans’ Employment Awards
- The release of two important strategies — the Veteran Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy and National Action Plan and the Family and Domestic Violence Strategy
- Various articles on the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War — see below
- A feature article on the role the Coastwatchers played in Victory in the Pacific
- Reports from the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs and Minister for Defence Personnel Darren Chester and DVA Secretary Liz Cosson AM CSC.
- Vetaffairs Noticeboard
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Inside this edition
- Celebrating our veteran employment award-winners
- News from the Department
- Letters to the Editor
- News from the Minister
- Family and Domestic Violence Strategy launched
- New Veteran Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy and National Action Plan
- Advocate gives veterans’ families voice on support
- Input wanted on DVA’s consultation framework
- Winners of the Prime Minister’s Veterans’ Employment Awards
- Indexation of rates 1 July 2020
- COVID-19 — adjusting and adapting
- Planning for staying healthy during COVID-19
- Pandemic brings silver lining for veterans’ business chamber
- Veteran gives back during COVID crisis
- Vital to continue normal medical contacts during pandemic
- Online guide to prostate treatment decisions
- A guide to better hearing with DVA
- Live better with diabetes
- Safe Zone — Veteran Support 24/7
- Assess, acknowledge and adjust… to the new normal
- A little R&R every day can help your body and mind
- DVA transition support available online
- New veteran cards are on the way
- Changing ADF transition support delivery
- Coastwatcher’s last mission
- Tokyo Bay surrender ceremony
- Far from the Madding Crowd
- From empty faces to bright eyes and constant smiles
- Submariners band together to aid submarine museum
- James sets benchmark for solo Tasman sail crossing
- French mayor remembered as a firm friend
- Australian First World War casualties rest in Bita Paka War Cemetery
- Book brings insights into Vietnam operations
- 75th Anniversary of the end of the Second World War
- National Commemorative Service Australia remembers the Second World War
- Thank you from a grateful nation
- Drive-by tribute honours Alice’s Rat of Tobruk
- Anzac lights in Lincoln Anzac Day
- Students’ letters
- Anzac Day apart but together at Brisbane War Widows units
- War Widows NSW’s Friendship Line works from home
- Vietnam Ordnance veterans gather in Perth
- Second edition for 2/33 Battalion history
- New War Memorial Director committed to past and future stories
- Items for sale
- Defence Honours and Awards Appeals Tribunal
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