We have been fighting for war veterans on this show for a long time and one of the issues we’ve tackled is unacceptable delays at the Department of Veterans Affairs. And that brings me to a compelling column written this week by Shane Wright in the Sydney Morning Herald.

He says there are tens of thousands of pages to the federal budget, but a single paragraph … demands to be read and understood by all Australians.

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