113.Top Priorities when Supporting and Acknowledging Defence Partners & Families - a podcast by Beck Rayner

from 2021-12-08T18:30

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This week on the Podcast, I speak with Minister for Veterans’ Affairs & Minister for Defence Personnel Andrew Gee about his top priorities when it comes to supporting and acknowledging Defence Partners and Families.

 

Minister Gee and I also have an open and real conversation about:

  • His thoughts on partners and families being key contributors to defence capability
  • The impact partners and families have on the well-being of the defence member
  • The value he sees defence partners and families providing the community & defence
  • How current policy and programs fit with the value partners and families provide
  • His take on the key issues and challenges defence partners and families currently face
  • The opportunities the Minister sees when it comes to solving those issues & challenges
  • The invaluable insight he got from the recent National Defence Partner Roundtable
  • Why we need a more comprehensive understanding of the partner and family experience
  • The steps the Minister is taking to introduce a possible Ministerial Advisory Council to help inform policy
  • How to gather the right data on defence partners and families to shape effective policy
  • Partnering with the Australian Institute of Family Studies to redesign the ADF Family Survey
  • Why it’s time for more innovation in the way that programs are designed & delivered
  • Looking at trialling Coworking hubs on defence bases to support and connect defence partners
  • The role the Veteran Wellbeing Centres will play for current defence partners and families
  • How partner employment contributes to ADF workforce development & why supporting career portability is key
  • How the Minister thinks defence partners and families have fared during COVID
  • A commitment to seriously push for the introduction of a National Defence Families day
  • Whether it might be time to review defence partner and family policy in a major way

 

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