Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

This government is determined to do everything within its power to ensure that the members of the special forces, and the members of the Australian Defence Force in the broad, are paid and remunerated properly. Secondly, as the minister has correctly said, none of those members of the special forces would suffer any level of financial disadvantage whatsoever. Thirdly, the government therefore has absolute confidence in the minister’s handling of this matter. It is being done the right way, with the Chief of Army in control. It will take time to fix, but fix it we will.

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