They served. Many came home injured. The country that sent them is now making it harder for them to get the care they earned. Fair Care for Veterans is the campaign to put that right.
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A strong defence force ensures a peaceful world. Recognising this, Australia has always made a simple promise to the people who serve in its defence: if service leaves you broken, the country will not leave you on your own.
That promise is not sentimental. It is the practical foundation of a defence force, and the precondition for asking the next generation of Australians to sign up.
It is now being broken.Injured veterans are being steered into assessments designed to pay them less. Treatments their own doctors prescribe are being restricted.
Regional veterans are being pushed back onto opioids because the safer alternative has been made harder to reach.
All veterans are being forced to deal with a department responsible for their wellbeing that is hard to navigate and too slow to help those who need it most.
Fair Care for Veterans exists to hold the country to its word. Not as a favour to the people who served, but as the minimum any country owes the men and women who defended it.
You spoke up. The Government listened. One down. Two to go.
We asked the Government to scrap the $5,000 annual cap on allied health. On 17 September 2026, it did. Veterans, families, clinicians and senators from across the Parliament made the case. The Government listened. Credit where it is due.
Veterans and providers must have a real say in whatever replaces it.
The Government must restore veterans' right to choose their own accredited assessment provider rather than being funnelled through MLCOA, which holds a sole-provider contract with the Department of Veterans' Affairs. Veterans are entitled to care from the practitioners who know them. A sole-provider assessment model, where a single government contractor conducts Independent Medical Examinations, denies them that.
Allow veterans to use doctors they trust without slowing or stopping their claims, or otherwise forcing them to use the government's preferred provider.
The Government must launch an independent inquiry into DVA claims processing times and ensure internal processing times for manual billing audits are met. Veterans and their families are waiting months, often years, for claims decisions, while clinicians can be left unpaid for weeks or months for care they have already delivered. When providers are pushed onto slow manual claims processes, clinics are forced to reduce veteran services, stop accepting DVA patients or close altogether. Veterans should not lose trusted clinicians and continuity of care because the system cannot process or pay claims properly.
An independent inquiry with a mandate to set transparent, binding performance standards and hold the Department to account.
Horse Hudson served Australia for 22 years, including more than a decade in the Special Air Service Regiment during Australia's war years. He deployed to East Timor and Afghanistan, was instrumental in helping build Australia's Special Operations Command K9 capability, and served through some of the most demanding years of Australia's modern military operations.
Since leaving Defence, Horse has raised awareness about PTSD, traumatic brain injury, chronic pain, substance abuse and the struggle many veterans face in finding support that actually works. He is backing Fair Care for Veterans to give injured veterans choice, flexibility and better pathways to recovery.
"This is about making sure veterans become an asset to society, not a burden. You cannot ask people to carry responsibility, pressure and risk for years, then send them home without the right care and expect them to work it all out alone."
Kiel Goodman served Australia as an Army gunner, including multiple tours of Afghanistan. After leaving the Defence Force, he faced the difficult transition back to civilian life while managing physical and mental injuries connected to his service.
Kiel is now speaking out for veterans who need better support, greater choice and a system that helps them rebuild their lives after service.
"I've seen too many veterans struggle to get the support they've earned. It should not matter where you live or how hard you can fight the system. This campaign is about making sure veterans get the care they deserve."
John Armfield joined the Royal Australian Navy in March 2003 and completed several phases of naval training, including diving and demolitions prerequisites, leadership training, the Clearance Diver Acceptance Test and Specialist Navy Clearance Diver Courses, incorporating Explosive Ordnance Disposal, which are some of the most rigorous and demanding courses in the Australian Defence Force.
Since leaving the Navy in 2023, John has played a significant role advocating for veterans, including providing testimony to the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide about the death of his brother, RAAF Leading Aircraftman Andrew Armfield.
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