Defence Minister Richard Marles has touted the consideration of non-citizens as an element of the government’s commitment to widen eligibility criteria for recruits to the Australian military.
The Defence Minister has suggested the government may look to make New Zealand nationals in Australia, among citizens from a range of other countries, eligible for recruitment in the military.
“This means ensuring that Defence reflects its full diversity of Australia such that it is drawing on the talents of the entirety of Australian society,” the Minister for Defence said in an address to the National Press Club. Asked by Sydney Morning Herald journalist Matthew Knott about which countries’ citizens the government would look to target, Mr Marles listed Australia’s“An obvious place to start looking is among AUKUS partners or Five Eyes partners,” he said, referring to the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand.
Defence Minister Richard Marles announcing the 2024 National Defence Strategy on Wednesday. Picture: Supplied As of January 2024, the ADF stands under-recruited by about 7.0 per cent - or 4,400 personnel - of its total authorised strength across the Army, Navy, and Airforce. "It puts stress across the entire organisation in terms of being able to both train, recruit, to conduct activity, and to sustain our people, support their families, continue our tempo of activity, both internationally and domestically,” he told a Senate Estimates hearing.
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