Veterans aren’t buying what the PM’s been selling. Turns out, nobody is.

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John,

I don’t know if you saw the PM’s announcement earlier this month about his plan to set up a Commissioner to look at veteran suicide.

Well, the Senate has just voted today to reject it.

I called a vote to say a few things about what’s wrong with it:

  • It’s a review into the last 17 reviews that have all said the same thing.
  • It’s a glorified coroner that can only look at the individual suicides of individual veterans, and ignores attempts and people who are on the brink -- let alone the system that’s putting them there.
  • It’s a never-ending inquiry that never produces a final set of recommendations for the Government to deliver.

There’s no substitute for a Royal Commission. Nothing else has the scope or power. We’ve done everything we can and nothing has worked. It’s time.

And today, your Senators said so too. They said no to the PM’s Commissioner and yes to the real deal. 

Can you say so too? Add your name to my petition that very politely thanks the PM for recognising we have a problem and calls on him to deliver the only solution that’s got a chance of working.

Labor, Greens, Centre Alliance, and Pauline Hanson’s One Nation all agreed with my motion today. 

Just one more party to win over. Let’s get them.

Cheers,

Jacqui

P.S. If you're really keen to help get this over the line, I'm making a TV ad!

I’ve brought in a professional production crew to make an ad demanding the Prime Minister call a proper Royal Commission into veterans suicide.

The kicker? We’re going to run it in the middle of a Cronulla Sharks NRL game, where we know the PM will be watching.

Can you help chip in to cover the production costs?

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