In a democracy, the distance between policy and its human consequences is sometimes measured in the voices of those who must live with it. Australia's Labor government, having proposed a $5,000 annual cap on allied health services for defence veterans, has now withdrawn it entirely — undone not by parliamentary arithmetic alone, but by the sustained testimony of injured servicemembers, their advocates, and an independent senator who made the stakes personal. The reversal, announced by veterans' affairs minister Matt Keogh on Thursday, is both a victory for organised advocacy and a quiet questi
Labor scraps $5,000 veterans' health cap after political pressure
The proposed cap would have restricted access to allied health services for defence veterans, potentially limiting care for injured servicemembers.