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Flat White

Deaths of despair can be avoided

28 October 2024

12:09 PM

28 October 2024

12:09 PM

I have in front of me the final report of the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide. I am partway through. I will probably not read it all, though I will do my best.

Why, you may ask, would I wish to read a report of this nature as I am not directly responsible for executing the outcomes of the 122 recommendations, nor am I in a position to lobby people and institutions that might be?

There are two reasons, one substantial, the other less so but described well by poet and author Ivan Head as inter-generational trauma that plays out...

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