I'm Kate Pope, and I'd be happy to answer that question.
We are looking at all elements that really comprise a successful transition being about a full life after leaving the military and moving into civilian life. There's a focus on employment and on health and medical well-being, and access to the Australian medical system in the usual way once people leave the military, in which all medical services have been provided for them. It's about housing. It's about social connections. It's very crucially about their families. And, certainly, when we hear of the struggles with transition, the families' experiences are very similar to what you were describing. Families struggle in that environment as well. It's about employment for spouses, education for children, and basically reintegration into civilian life. When we talk with veterans, similar to the way you described it, those who find it difficult can face some significant challenges, and transition always comes up.
We also had specific consultations with female veterans, and they have also very much emphasized the challenges here. So the work we're trying to do, as Ms. Cosson was describing, is to smooth that transition. One of the ways we are working to do that is through our early engagement program. We would like to consider serving personnel to be clients of Veterans' Affairs from the day they enlist right through to the end of their lives, so that the transition is not this sudden drop and they contact us only when they're in crisis, but instead that they have a relationship with us and they know the services we can provide and it's a whole-of-life continuity of a caring relationship, which is what we're working to develop now. Our hope is that we can make it a positive experience and smooth that challenge at the point of transition with a focus on healthy and productive lives and then healthy aging. We really want to focus on early intervention for medical conditions so that we treat early, we get the best results we can for the veteran, and we save money for the government as well.