Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

(—) (): First, I would say I respect your advocacy for our ADF personnel. You have been consist throughout your whole life, I'm sure, but certainly in all your time in the parliament. Second, I disagree with your assertion as to a pay cut. I understand why you put it, but I refer to my earlier answer that this pay increase—and it is a pay increase—is calculated above the inflation estimates that the RBA has put in place. But you are right: we have a retention issue and we have challenges in meeting the targets that were set, before we came to government, for the recruitment of personnel. We have worked— (Time expired)