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Australian Defence Force Association, the Union for the Defence Force in Australia, said that she was being deliberately provocative. Deveny referred to veterans as "ignorant and uneducated", and argued that the Australian Defence Forces should not use the term "to serve", and that it was no more dangerous than many other professions, including emergency services officers, farmers, arborists and mental health workers. This comparison was criticised in the media; it was argued that the defence forces are a more dangerous profession than the examples she had given.
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