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I've talked about resilience training. I was also asked to pass on some information about tracking veterans. I've got Colonel Gray's notes here. We acknowledge that tracking veterans is a significant problem for our defence force as well.
Just last weekend, there was an article in a few of our national newspapers about veterans returning with mental health problems. We've had a number of suicides in our defence force since the start of this year. We're up to three suicides this year; normally, our suicide rate in the ADF is around six to seven a year. This year, as I said, we're up to three, and they're all in the army, from different parts of Australia. There's no pattern of where they're from in Australia. They are geographically dispersed.
Tracking veterans is an issue for us. Our Department of Veterans' Affairs only tracks those veterans with compensation claims. Tracking those who have recognized injuries and have put in a compensation claim to veterans' affairs is the only way we can really track what's happening with our veteran community. The others are much more difficult. If they don't put in a claim for a mental health condition or a health condition, then they are much more difficult to track.
Our Department of Veterans' Affairs is currently trialing a use of social networking technology. They have a website that our veterans can log on to in order to keep track with the ADF veteran community. I'll give you the website: it's www.touchbase.gov.au. That's a social networking site for veterans to keep in touch with the ADF community. That website includes some self-care information for veterans and also has some self-screening options so that veterans can go on and do some self-screening to see how they might be tracking with their mental health.
I think that's all I really needed to talk about formally in my presentation. I'm happy to take any questions now that you might have.