Mar 31, 2022
Following the federal budget announcement that
the Australian government has
committed $9 million over the next three years to
supporting Invictus Australia’s work with the Invictus
Team and the entire veteran community, Michael Hartung OAM, CEO of
Invictus Australia, joins Defence Connect journalist
Nastasha Tupas to discuss the important role Invictus
Australia plays in supporting the defence and veteran
community.
Hartung, who received the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for
service to sport for people with a disability, discusses how
Veteran Sport Australia became an extension of the international
Invictus Foundation, after signing a world-first agreement to
continue to use the Invictus brand in Australia; with the aim of
extending support and the power of the Invictus movement beyond the
2018 games held in Sydney.
He speaks on the impact
of coronavirus, which delayed the games for over two
years; postponing it from 2020 to 2021, and then again to 2022.
Hartung remains confident that the resilience of the 2020 Invictus
Australia team will see them through at the fifth Games that will
be hosted in the Hague, the Netherlands, which
is kicking off on 16 April and wraps up
on 22 April this year.
Finally, Hartung touches on how Invictus Australia continues to
uplift the defence and veteran community through the grassroots
work Invictus Australia has been doing.
Enjoy the podcast,
The Defence Connect Team