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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 3526 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 4194 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.
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Finney says PM untruthful re Royal Commission

13/03/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3359 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.
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Finney rejects PM’s suicide commissioner without RC

12/02/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3995 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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Julie-Ann Finney gets Labor on side

03/12/201903/12/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2070 Views 0 Comments