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 Kiel Goodman, Australian Army veteran

Kiel Goodman

Kiel served our country as an Army Gunner during multiple tours of Afghanistan. After struggling with his transition out of the Defence Force, he battled mental and physical injuries resulting from his service. He is now speaking out for other veterans who need better support.

"We often only talk about veterans' health issues around ANZAC Day, but the reality is that many veterans live with physical and mental injuries every day of the year, often for the rest of their lives. They deserve support and a system that recognises their service to our country."
— Kiel Goodman

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