Tim Dower: What kind of money compensates for the sacrifice of our Defence Force?

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · May 8, 2023 · 2m

A pay rise for the Defence Force, which has lost about about 10 percent of its personnel over the past year.

That works out to around 800 people leaving.

What would be really interesting to know and hopefully the Defence Force does know this - is where they're going and why they're going.

Is it only because there's more money to be had in civvy street or are there other issues?

There was a time when we were losing trained personnel to the Australian military, purely because of money.

These days, there's better dough to be had in the Fire Service or the Police and in Corrections too, although…