Royal Commission into veterans' deaths: a vet’s view

The Prime Minister has announced a Royal Commission into veterans’ suicide.  Will it be enough to stem the number of returned servicemen and women taking their own lives?

  

We’re joined by Heston Russell - a 16-year army veteran and former Special Air Service Regiment commander and founder of Voice of a Veteran.

 

41 people died serving in Afghanistan... but ten times that number have taken their own lives after they got home.  Why?  The greater story needs to be told. 

 

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