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SAS Sqn has become the first ADF unit to be awarded a Unit
Citation for Gallantry. The award was announced on Thursday
November 28 as part of the Op Falconer honours list which
recognised the ADF's contribution to the defeat of Saddam
Hussein's regime in Iraq this year.
Photo illustration by Cpl Belinda Mepham, Army newspaper
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Defence
Census 2003 results
By
Andrew Stackpool
HOW many people took part in Defence Census 2003?
The
answer is in the Defence Census 2003 Public Report.
The
census results were launched on November 28. Under the theme "counting
the People who count" the fourth census is the first to include
Defence civillians.
Conducting
the Census was a major undertaking. It targeted more than 88,000
Defence personnel, including those posted or deployed in the Middle
East, Bougainville and East Timor in ships at sea, on exchange duty
and in diplomatic posts around the world.
Seventy-eight
per cent of Defence civillians and 70 per cent of the permanent
ADF completed the form, and the response from Reserves was a significant
increase over their 1999 Census participation.
The
information in the census will enable Defence to better understand
the demographics of the ADF, Reserve and APS communities.
It
also allows comparison with the wider national workforce environment,
as well as the diversity and changing workplace and social trends
across the Defence community and wider community from which it draws
its recruits.
The
public report will be available on the Internet and intranet, while
the Service newspapers will provide a number of snapshot articles
based on the census during 2004.
How
many people responded? The answer is 57,761 - 35,657 regulars, 7672
reserves and 14,432 Defence APS.
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