Lyn Allison (Victoria, Australian Democrats) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs. Has the minister seen the report of the UK study this week that shows that the veterans who were forced to watch British nuclear tests here in Australia will pass on scrambled DNA and crippling health problems to their families for 20 generations? Doesn’t this make the government’s health cards for nuclear veterans look hopelessly inadequate? Will it now stop fighting these sick veterans in the courts for their compensation? Will the government now do a proper study of the families of Australian veterans and show more compassion than has been apparent so far?