After decades of official denial, Australian Gulf War veterans exposed to toxic oil fires, contaminated ship water, and experimental drugs have finally won official medical recognition for Gulf War Syndrome thanks to ground-breaking research from Queensland’s Griffith University.

This historic Statement of Principles by the DVA allows suffering service members to access vital healthcare for chronic fatigue, severe cancer rates, and debilitating illness, marked by an upcoming commemorative ceremony at Brisbane’s South Bank.

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