A “catastrophic failure” in senior government and Defence leadership has led to a “senseless loss of life” in Australia’s military community, the man leading the Royal Commission into Australia’s military suicide crisis has said in scathing remarks delivered at the close of the three-year inquiry. Deaths by suicide have takenContinue Reading
The last witness called to testify before the Royal Commission Into Defence and Veteran Suicide is the man at the very top of Australia’s command chain: Australian Defence Force chief General Angus Campbell. General Campbell is appearing for a mammoth full day hearing at the commission, which is drilling intoContinue Reading
The investigation into the suicide crisis roiling Australia’s military community has been “stymied and stonewalled” by defence and government bureaucracy, the man leading the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide has said. In a furious speech to the National Press Club on Wednesday, commission chair Nick Kaldas called onContinue Reading
The mayor of a community in Sydney’s northwest has condemned the “appalling” vandalism of a memorial bust of a former NSW governor during a Dawn Service. Authorities are investigating after the statue of Governor Lachlan Macquarie in Windsor’s McQuade Park was defaced with red paint, handprints and messages during Tuesday’sContinue Reading