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Hundreds of new homes for Defence personnel in Rockingham

Today the Albanese Government announced the signing of three contracts between Defence Housing Australia (DHA) and Western Australian businesses to deliver 550 additional new households for Defence personnel and their families. The new homes will be leased to DHA and provide accommodation close to…

25 Years of Australian service in Timor-Leste

As we mark 25 years of Australian service in Timor-Leste, we remember Australia’s long and proud history of international peacekeeping. When the Timorese people took the courageous step of voting for independence in 1999 and asked the international community for help to secure their nation,…

Radio Interview, 6PR Perth Radio

SUBJECTS: Final Report from the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide; Middle East Conflict; UN Vote; Disability Royal Commission. HOST, SEAN COWAN: Well, this is the first time I've refereed this title fight. Pleased to have you in the studio, the Minister for Veterans’…

Travel to Timor-Leste for the 25th Anniversary of the International Force East Timor

Today, I will travel to Timor-Leste to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the deployment of the International Force East Timor (INTERFET) in Dili.  INTERFET was an Australian-led multinational peacekeeping task force, authorised through a United Nations Security Council Resolution, to assist…

Doorstop, Parliament House

SUBJECTS: Final Report from the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide; Mothers Daughters Sisters Wives Rally. JOURNALIST: We've heard from Julie-Ann Finney and others who have lost loved ones and themselves been abused in the military. How quickly can the Government realistically…

Television interview, Sky News

SUBJECTS: Final Report from the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide; Mothers Daughters Sisters Wives Rally.

Television Interview, Sky News

SUBJECTS: Final Report from the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide. HOST, TOM CONNELL: Welcome back. The Royal Commission into Veteran Suicide was handed down yesterday. This was one started by the Morrison Government. It's one both sides are pledging to take immediate…

Radio Interview, 6PR Perth Mornings

SUBJECTS: Final Report from the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide. HOST, GARY ADSHEAD: All right. We did speak yesterday ahead of the tabling of a Report into suicide in the Defence Force, and it has - well, it's a very dense and long document. It's volumes and volumes…

Doorstop interview, Parliament House

SUBJECTS: Final Report from the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide. JOURNALIST: Sexual assaults as been reported to the ADF at the moment across the last five years, that's been the average. It doesn't seem like something that can wait to change the culture, so things like that…

Radio interview, 2CC Canberra

SUBJECTS: Final Report from the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide. HOST, STEPHEN CENATIEMPO: As we've been discussing all morning, the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide yesterday handed down its Final Report with 122 recommendations, several of them…

Radio interview, ABC News Radio

SUBJECTS: Final Report from the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide.

Radio interview, ABC RN Breakfast

SUBJECTS: Final Report from the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide. HOST, STEVE CANNANE: Matt Keogh is the Minister for Veterans' Affairs and he joins us now. Minister, welcome back to RN Breakfast. MINISTER FOR VETERANS’ AFFAIRS AND DEFENCE PERSONNEL, MATT KEOGH:…