2021-04-19 08:35:52 GMT2021-04-19 16:35:52(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
CANBERRA, April 19 (Xinhua) Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced a royal commission into the suicides of current and former defense personnel.
Morrison on Monday acknowledged the human cost of defense deployments, saying he hoped that the long-awaited inquiry would act as a healing process. I think this will be a process that will assist in the comfort that those families have been seeking, he told reporters.
More Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel have lost their lives by suicide than those have died in active duty in Afghanistan since 2001.
According to a report published by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), between 2001 and 2017, there were 419 suicides among current serving, reserve and contemporary ex-serving ADF personnel.
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Morrison acknowledged the human cost of defence deployments, saying he hoped that the long-awaited inquiry would act as a healing process , reports Xinhua news agency. I think this will be a process that will assist in the comfort that those families have been seeking, he told reporters here.
More Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel have lost their lives by suicide than those have died in active duty in Afghanistan since 2001.
Australian Prime Minister
Scott Morrison has announced a royal commission into the suicides of current and former defence personnel.
Mr Morrison on Monday acknowledged the “human cost’’ of defence deployments, expressing the hope that the long-awaited inquiry would act as a “healing process’’.
“I think this will be a process that will assist in the comfort that those families have been seeking,’’ he told reporters.
More Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel have lost their lives by suicide than those who have died in active duty in Afghanistan since 2001.
According to a report published by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), between 2001 and 2017, there have been 419 suicides among current serving, reserve and contemporary ex-serving ADF personnel.