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Jesse Bird and Dave Finney
Australian News Veterans 

PTSD Awareness Day – Julie-Ann Finney’s view

27/06/202027/06/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3289 Views 1 Comment

Today is three years since Jesse Bird took his life. It is also World PTSD Day. To acknowledge this, I will be tying 600 yellow ribbons on trees in Adelaide

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Thomas Marsh, RIP 1919, and Dave Finney, RIP 2019.
Australian News Veterans 

Julie-Ann Finney’s ANZAC Day message

26/04/202026/04/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3975 Views 2 Comments

In 1919, Thomas Marsh returned from WWI, walked the main street of Fremantle, and took his own life – and the government defered it to others to fix.

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Julie-Ann Finney makes an impassioned speech to camera.
Australian News Veterans Videos 

Finney says PM untruthful re Royal Commission

13/03/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3147 Views 0 Comments

Julie-Ann Finney say Prime Minister Scott Morrison was untruthful when he told parliament and the Australian public he would consider a Royal Commission

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Julie-Ann Finney (right) at Australia's Parliament House with Colleen Pillen, Nikki Jamieson and Senator Jacqui Lambie.
Australian News Veterans 

Finney rejects PM’s suicide commissioner without RC

12/02/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3737 Views 0 Comments

Julie-Ann Finney has rejected Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s proposal for a permanent suicide commissioner without a Royal Commission first.

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Australian News Veterans 

Julie-Ann Finney gets Labor on side

03/12/201903/12/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1944 Views 0 Comments

Labor has thrown its support behind Julie-Ann Finney’s campaign for a Royal Commission into the veteran suicide rate in Australia.

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Dave Stafford Finney, RIP 2 February 2019
Dave Finney Lest We Forget News Personal stories Royal Australian Navy Veterans 

RIP Dave Stafford Finney – 3 February 2019

03/02/201919/06/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 14245 Views 6 Comments Dave Stafford Finney

Dave Stafford Finney, a recently retired Royal Australian Navy Petty Officer – is how he described himself when he allowed

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Veterans What's on... 

The Healing | Veterans Health Week special movie screening + Q&A

03/10/202403/10/2024 Jess Heinrich 1932 Views 0 Comments

Following the final report from the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide, Horse Aid is hosting a special online

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ADF Arts for Recovery, Resilience, Teamwork and Skills program participant Petty Officer Lee-Anne Cooper with her family at the showcase event at the University of Canberra’s Inspire Centre. Story by Flight Lieutenant Thomas McCoy. Photo by Corporal Madhur Chitnis.
ADF People Health and Wellbeing Lest We Forget 

Drawings worth a thousand words

04/07/2023 Posted by Mike Hughes 1123 Views 0 Comments ADF Arts for Recovery Resilience Teamwork and Skills (ARRTS)

In 2017, Petty Officer Lee-Anne Cooper was asked by a shipmate to take a photo of him in full service

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Julie-Ann Finney and her son Dave.
ADF Australian News Veterans 

Royal Commission into veteran suicide will go ahead

19/04/2021 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3183 Views 3 Comments Dave Stafford Finney, Julie-Ann Finney, Suicide Royal Commission

Prime Minister Scott Morrison today announced a Royal Commission into Defence and Veterans Suicide will be established.

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A motion calling on the overnment to establish a Royal Commission into veteran suicide passed the Lower House, 22 March 2021.
ADF News Veterans Videos 

Suicide Royal Commission motion passed in Parliament

22/03/202129/03/2021 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2461 Views 0 Comments

A motion calling on the overnment to establish a Royal Commission into veteran suicide passed the Lower House, 22 March 2021.

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Notice of Motion in Australian Senate calling for a Royal Commission into ADF and veteran suicide
Australian News Veterans 

Senate votes for suicide Royal Commission

20/03/2021 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2421 Views 2 Comments Dave Stafford Finney, Julie-Ann Finney

A motion calling on the government to establish a Royal Commission into veteran suicide passed through the Australian Senate on Thursday.

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Dave Stafford Finney, RIP 2 February 2019
Letters to the Editor 

A yellow armband to remember ALL our veterans

09/11/202009/11/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1768 Views 0 Comments Julie-Ann Finney

This Wednesday, Remembrance Day, is a chance for us all to honour, remember and respect the sacrifices made by brave men and women.

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Australian News Veterans Videos 

Powerful, heartbreaking video calls (again) for Royal Commission into Veteran Suicide

13/10/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2293 Views 0 Comments

Senator Jacqui Lambie has just released a powerful video which perfectly explains why we still need a Royal Commission. Please watch.

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A 2RAR soldier orders his section to advance during a platoon attack, at Bradshaw Field Training Area, Northern Territory, during Exercise Talisman Sabre 2015. Photo by Lance Corporal Kyle Genner
Australian News Veterans 

Shadow Veterans’ Affairs spokesman calls for suicide Royal Commission

10/10/202010/10/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1972 Views 0 Comments

Shadow Minister for Veterans’ Affairs added to calls for a Royal Commission into veteran suicides after new suicide figures were released.

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Julie-Ann Finney ties a yellow ribbon around a tree in Adelaide on World PTSD Awareness Day.
Australian News Veterans 

Thousands of ribbons – thousands of broken hearts

01/07/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2401 Views 0 Comments

I can’t believe it. On Saturday, we gathered to honour the life and memory of Jesse Bird, another Veteran lost to this crisis.

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ADF Australian News Veterans 

Darren Chester thanks COAG for Suicide Commissioner endorsement

17/03/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1876 Views 1 Comment

Despite the vocal objections of ‘the mothers’, Minister for Veterans Affairs Darren Chester announced yesterday that the agreement by state and

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Poppy on coffin.
Australian News Veterans 

COAG endorses PM’s suicide commissioner

14/03/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2072 Views 0 Comments

The Council of Australian Governments held a general meeting in Sydney on 13 March, at which the PM’s veteran suicide commissioner proposal was endorsed.

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Julie-Ann Finney's busy schedule at Australia's Parliament House.
Australian News Veterans 

“Don’t enlist until it’s fixed”

29/02/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4625 Views 0 Comments

Julie-Ann Finney is encouraging potential Defence recruits not to join the military until the problems of life after service have been addressed.

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Matilda Poppies by Lisa Robson
CONTACT BLOG SPOT Lest We Forget 

500 Matilda Poppies

18/02/2020 Lisa Robson 3862 Views 4 Comments

CONTACT fan crochets 500 Matilda Poppies for her local RSL – then 500 more for another – to remember the 500 souls lost to veteran suicide.

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Senator Jacqui Lambie speaking in the Senate, 11 January 2020.
Australian News Veterans Videos 

Lambie ‘names-and-shames’ DVA ‘desk jockey’ for bullying psychiatrist

12/02/202012/02/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 16676 Views 3 Comments

Senator Jacqui Lambie has named and attacked a senior DVA exec whom she said threatened a psychiatrist for marking diagnoses too high in favour of veterans.

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