Welcome to the Afternoon Update. The royal commission into defence and veteran suicide has handed down its final report.
The chair, Nick Kaldas, said the royal commission should be a “line in the sand” and a “call to action once and for all”. Speaking at Parliament House in Canberra, Kaldas said he believed there had been a “failure of leadership” and despite dozens of past inquiries and hundreds of previous recommendations the “dial hasn’t moved”.
