As the deputy mentioned, we're looking very closely at what the Australians are doing. We don't call it automatic approval. We call it more presumptive because with automatic approval people think they're going to say they're hurt and we're going to say yes. We do have to be a little careful because they need a disability diagnosis. A doctor needs to say they have a disability, a permanent condition, and they need to have served. We need to confirm their service and that their injury is service-related to some extent. That it's linked to service is easy, so that's why you'll notice the deputy talks about presumptive.
I talk about presumptive as opposed to automatic, because in people's mind if you say “automatic”, they say things like they jumped out of a plane, hurt their knee and they should get a DA. Yes, okay, we agree that it's service-related but to what extent? We still need to make that determination.
We will not be spending a lot of time at the front end asking if it's related to their service or not. It's very clear if they are a search and rescue technician and come forward with a bad knee we shouldn't be spending a lot of time trying to determine if that's service-related or not. We should be spending the time on the level of their injury, its complexity and then get it to you as fast as possible. We want to get you in treatment, because the end game is how fast we can get you in treatment.
We've been working closely and my policy friend is looking at how you rework some of those sections in the legislation to ensure that it's clear, that people understand it and we don't get in trouble.