Stuart Robert (Fadden, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

The answer to the honourable member's question is as follows:

(a) (i) to (v) The personnel headcount as at 30 September 2014 for Navy, Army, Air Force, Reserves and APS for each electoral division is provided in Table A below. The total Australian Public Service (APS) workforce by actual headcount was 20,799, of which 54 employees were on fixed-term contracts and 1,398 were part-time.

Note that these figures are based on headcount data, rather than full-time equivalents (FTE). Defence budgets for its APS workforce on a FTE (i.e. paid) basis. Headcount data counts all personnel equally regardless of the number of hours worked, and includes all personnel recorded as on duty, or on leave with, or without, pay. By way of comparison, the Defence APS workforce by actual FTE at payday 25 September 2014 was 19,530.

Table A

Data ran from data warehouse: 8 Dec 2014

Note:

(a) CFTS' denotes Reservists on Continuous Full-Time Service.

(b) The electorate of Lingiari is located in the Northern Territory. It is also listed against Western Australia (WA) as it includes the Cocos Islands and Christmas Island, which are geographically located in WA.

  (i) and (ii) - The numbers of civilians (by headcount) on fixed-term contracts or employed part time as at 30 September 2014 are provided in Table B below.

Table B

Data ran from data warehouse: 8 Dec 2014

Note:

( a) For both tables, electorates not listed indicate there were no Defence employees working in that electoral division.

( b) Fixed Term contracts includes all non-ongoing F/T and P/T.

( c) Fixed term total include 20 P/T non-ongoing personnel.

( d) Part Time total includes all P/T non-ongoing and ongoing personnel.

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