House debates Questions without Notice
Defence Recruitment
Matt Keogh Burt, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Veterans’ Affairs
2:22 pm
When it comes to our Australian Defence Force, our people are our most important capability. But, when we came into government, we confronted a Defence Force that, under the coalition, was shrinking. There had been a failure of the coalition to make sure we had the Defence Force that we needed in the geostrategic circumstances that we confront. So we committed to rebuilding the Australian Defence Force when we came to government. We took urgent steps. We introduced better health care, we introduced better access to study, we introduced more flexibility to Defence housing, and we've had better access to family health care as well for those members in our Defence Force. Of course, we added the continuation bonus as well.
We've also been bold in how we promote joining the Australian Defence Force, not just on TV, radio and billboards. We've been in social media—we're on TikTok as well—making sure that our young people are seeing the advertisements and the—
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