A national campaign

Loyalty to veterans is our strongest defence.

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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What we stand for

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.

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.

What we're
asking for

The problems run wider than these. But these are where we start.

Fair
assessments

When an injured veteran claims the support they are entitled to, they are being directed to a single government contractor, MLCOA, whose reports tend to recommend lower payouts than independent providers. Veterans who ask to use the doctor they trust are having their claims quietly slowed.

What we are asking

End the funnelling of injured veterans into one contractor. Any accredited clinician should be able to assess them. Claims should not be punished for choosing independently.

Access to
medicinal cannabis

In February 2026, the government restricted medicinal cannabis prescribing to a narrow group of specialist-endorsed GPs and cut off access through telehealth. Veterans in regional and remote Australia lost their prescribers overnight. Many are being pushed back onto opioids. A demonstrably safer option has been made harder to reach.

What we are asking

The February 2026 changes reversed. Telehealth prescribing restored. The doctors who treat these patients allowed to continue prescribing for them.

Our people

Portrait of Horse Hudson, Australian SAS veteran

Horse Hudson

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."
— Horse Hudson

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