If Defence is to attract the 5000 new soldiers, sailors and aviators it desperately needs, it must do a much better job looking after its current ones.
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Two numbers in the budget put in stark relief the herculean task facing the Albanese government and the Defence Force to recruit new soldiers, sailors and aviators.
The first is 4997. That represents the shortfall in personnel the Defence Force expects to have this year.
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