Final report to the Independent Review of Past Defence and Veteran Suicides

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Last updated: 29 Sep 2021

Topic: Veterans

AIHW

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2021) Final report to the Independent Review of Past Defence and Veteran Suicides, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 27 April 2024.

APA

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2021). Final report to the Independent Review of Past Defence and Veteran Suicides. Retrieved from https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/veterans/independent-review-past-defence-veterans-suicides

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Final report to the Independent Review of Past Defence and Veteran Suicides. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 29 September 2021, https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/veterans/independent-review-past-defence-veterans-suicides

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Final report to the Independent Review of Past Defence and Veteran Suicides [Internet]. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2021 [cited 2024 Apr. 27]. Available from: https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/veterans/independent-review-past-defence-veterans-suicides

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) 2021, Final report to the Independent Review of Past Defence and Veteran Suicides, viewed 27 April 2024, https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/veterans/independent-review-past-defence-veterans-suicides

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Notes

Acknowledgements

The AIHW thanks and acknowledges the large contribution by staff from a range of organisations in providing datasets and advice. These organisations are

Department of Defence
Department of Veterans’ Affairs
Australian Bureau of Statistics
National Coronial Information System
Department of Justice and Community Safety (Victoria)

The AIHW also thanks and acknowledges contributions of internal staff from the AIHW; Data Integration Service Centre who conducted the data-linkage, Ethics Privacy and Legal Unit who facilitated the ethics approval process and Specialist Capability Unit who provided statistical guidance in the methods used for the analysis.

The AIHW thanks those who provided review; Professor Libby Roughead, Associate Professor Ben Edwards and staff from the AIHW Data Custodian Units. In addition, the AIHW thanks and acknowledges the support from the Office of the National Commissioner and formerly the Attorney General’s Department as well as the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.

Finally, the AIHW also thanks Mindframe for providing invaluable training in the appropriate and sensitive way to report on suicide.

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Caution: Some readers may find parts of this content confronting or distressing.

Caution: Some readers may find parts of this content confronting or distressing.

Please carefully consider your needs when reading the following information about suicide. This report contains information on numbers and rates of death, method of suicide and risk factors (including suicide ideation and self-harm). This report may be distressing to some readers.

If this material raises concerns for you, support is available. Please contact Lifeline on 13 11 14, or Defence All-hours Support Line on 1800 628 036, or Open Arms - Veterans and Families Counselling, available free of charge, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, or see other ways you can seek help.

The information included here places an emphasis on data, and as such, can appear to depersonalise the pain and loss behind the statistics. The AIHW acknowledges the individuals, families and communities affected by ADF member and veteran suicide each year in Australia.

The AIHW supports the use of the Mindframe guidelines on responsible, accurate and safe suicide and self-harm reporting. Please consider these guidelines when reporting on statistics on the monitoring of suicide and self-harm.