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Politics
Dominic Giannini

Veterans on 'last legs' as system fails to ensure help

Senator Jacqui Lambie said her office fields hundreds of complaints about the defence department. (HANDOUT/Royal Commission Into Defence And Veteran Suicide)

Veterans and defence personnel have been abandoned and let down by a system that left many on their last legs, an independent senator says.

Better training to help veterans, and a clear-out of the "old guard" and top brass at the Defence department, was needed before the culture could change, Jacqui Lambie said.

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