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Dave Cox

Founder of Guitars for Veterans Australia (G4VA), former Australian Army Signals Corps soldier, and Melbourne-based singer-songwriter.

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Aug 3, 2026

COTA Conversations

COTA Conversations

3 August 2026: Dave Cox

Aug 3 · 4m

Peter ThomasHOST

1:21

So what do you do? I believe that you match veterans and music teachers for guitar lessons, and you even provide the guitars, don't you?

1:29

That's correct.

1:30

The program Guitars for Veterans Australia, it's a not-for-profit charity, ACNC, so we're registered and we've been going since 2017.

1:38

And what we do is we gift a guitar to a veteran And then we provide them 10 lessons.

1:44

Now we can give the lessons to them either one-on-one in their city or town because we look after veterans across Australia.

1:52

Or sometimes we team them up into Zoom classes.

1:55

Or sometimes we team them up in an RSL in one of the halls and we do the lessons that way.

Peter ThomasHOST

2:38

Well, as you've mentioned, music is so healing, isn't it? What is it about learning the guitar that helps veterans?