Maj. Stuart McCarthy on McBride & Brennan - 16 September 2023

On today's show, Maj. Stuart McCarthy  discusses the 'gamifornication' of the Australian veterans' affairs department's billion dollar 'veteran centric reform' program, designed and delivered by the multinational consulting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC). This is probably the worst scam perpetrated on a federal government department so far this century, with the fallout only beginning to emerge in the Defence and Veteran Suicide Royal Commission."

GUEST OVERVIEW: Stuart McCarthy is a retired Australian Army officer whose 28 year military career included operational deployments to Bougainville (Papua New Guinea), Ethiopia & Eritrea, Indonesia, Iraq and Afghanistan. Since leaving the Army in 2017 he has been a vocal advocate for injured and disabled military veterans and their families, including the establishment of the ongoing Defence & Veteran Suicide Royal Commission. In 2021 he was a lead advocate for the repatriation of local Afghan interpreters who had worked for the Australian Defence Force, prior to the Taliban takeover. He has also been published in medical journals on the ethics of military drug trials and the adverse effects of quinoline antimalarial drugs. His more recent advocacy efforts have focused on high level command responsibility for alleged Australian war crimes in Afghanistan.