Herald Sun
Kathryn Powley
and Paul Toohey
April 16, 2016
A FEMALE Victorian war veteran living out of her car in Frankston is one of the stories that has spurred a radical plan to house homeless veterans at campground village in Hastings.
Welfare agencies want more support for returned services people, saying some are living in tents in the bush, garages and on mates’ couches.
Mornington Peninsula-based welfare officer with Carry on Victoria Karl Williams said the woman was one of half a dozen veterans he had helped.
He will today join a protest on the steps of State Parliament in Spring St to call for a royal commission into the Federal Department of Veterans Affairs.
“She served in Afghanistan as a drone operator and was affected by post traumatic stress disorder,” he said.
She had run out of money and was sleeping in her car.
He helped get her into an apartment. She and other veterans had gone from being “top of the mountain” to thinking nobody cared, he said. There were former soldiers sleeping under one-man “hoochie” tarps in the bush.
Most of the homeless were unemployed suffering PTSD and some had tried suicide, Mr Williams said.
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