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Uncle Kevin Needs You: Defence Spends Up On Recruitment

8 January 2009

THE Defence Force has named the jobs it most needs to fill as it battles a serious skills shortage and recruitment crisis... read full story

Navy Claims Longer Break For Families

19 November 2008

THE Royal Australian Navy is denying that the decision to recall about 1600 sailors from warships over summer is a result of a recruiting crisis, claiming it merely forms part of a new family-friendly policy... read full story

Navy Closes For Christmas

18 November 2008

NAVY chiefs battling a staffing crisis have taken the unprecedented step of ordering a two-month shutdown over Christmas, and have told personnel with child-care problems that they can work from home next year... read full story

Your Army Needs You, And Your Navy And Air Force, Too

29 March 2007

A crisis in personnel numbers, coupled with budget and time overruns, continue to dog Australia's defence capabilities... read full story

Navy's Troubled Helicopter May Yet Fly

28 March 2007

THE Super Seasprite helicopter, the most troubled program in Australian naval aviation history, may yet win a reprieve due to legal threats, a lack of other options and growing distrust of Defence advice in senior Government ranks... read full story

Join The Army For A Year, Students Urged

15 October 2006

SCHOOL leavers will be offered defence training in a radical "try before you buy" approach to recruitment... read full story

Casting Off Nine To Five

26 September 2006

Travelling the world with good mates is just one of the perks Craig likes about the navy, writes Jacqui Jones... read full story

Thornton, Fisher At Odds With Blues Despite Youth Policy

20 September 2006

AFTER narrowly retaining his position as Carlton coach a fortnight ago, Denis Pagan has had his command of the Blues football department clipped by an edict from the board that forbids the recruitment of players who are either over the age of 24 or cannot be expected to play at least 100 games for the club. But on the day that Carlton president Graham Smorgon publicly alerted the football world to the restrictions it has placed on Pagan, it emerged that the club has a struggle on its hands to ..... read full story

Your Country Needs You - And Here's The Pay-off

2 September 2006

The Army needs another 2600 soldiers to meet its growing international commitments, but recruitment levels are lagging. One remedy being considered is an innovative package of bonuses, reports MAX BLENKIN.. read full story

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