DEFENCE’S
military personnel budget will be increased by $80 million over
the next four years as part of the 2004-05 Budget.
The move brings Defence’s budget for ADF health services, housing
and fringe benefits tax into line with cost trends in these areas
in recent years and also provided for increases in ADF remuneration
over the next decade.
The extra funding is to ensure Defence has the money to remunerate
the ADF at rates appropriate for maintaining a modern highly skilled
military workforce.
The Government’s 2000 Defence White Paper provided $4.7 billion
between 2004-05 and 2010-11 to fund 2 per cent per annum real
growth in Defence’s per capita personnel costs. But trends since
then had placed additional pressure on Defence’s military personnel
budget.
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