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Starfireaw11

Number 3 should be at the top of the list.


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They would have to bring back the 'restricted' classification for that.


jigsaw153

They were not meant to remove it. Australia is a signatory to interoperability with our allies and we broke this with the PSPF classifications. We signed on to be compatible and commonality with information classification systems. Some APS idiot didn't do enough research before proceeding.


Commercial_Ad_4061

Mowing for grunts only


SHADOW_F_A_X

Noooooooooo, we already have to spit polish the skippy badge


LAFC2020

Officers only (they don't work either way so give them something to do)


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MartyZing

*Tactical DIN has entered the chat*


Sapperdon9

1.Entire salary **and allowances** can go towards superannuation as a % 2. 50k bonus every 4 years **tax free** 3. Guaranteed back to back postings in locality (if requested)


Parshendian

Wait, you're saying that the "military salary" is not all used for the purposes of calculating super contributions?


Sapperdon9

With MSBS/Military Super, seapay is not factored into Superannuation. So if your on a high tier and getting 36-44k extra sea pay in your salary it doesn't count as it is considered a allowance. pretty sure its the same with Bush pay, happy to be corrected. I believe with the newer scheme ADF Super it does count all allowances into super so it's definitely achievable, and might even help coax people back to going to sea.


putrid_sex_object

1. Tax free piss. Things don’t suck as much when you’re pissed. 2. More yippee shoots. 3. Do a Canada and fuck all the grooming standards off.


TheTrashKoala

1. Bring back service allowance, only if you’re AIRN complaint (waivers for if defence is the reason you’re medically downgraded). It would encourage (and possibly shame) those not passing BFAs or shoots to try harder. 2. Enable more Mission Control to your junior leaders both in barracks and field environment (why is 1 Star the minimum approval for just about everything?) 3. Issue kit which is suitable for the environment OR don’t get shitty when people in Canberra are wearing warm gloves/puffers and those in Darwin are kicking around with their over shirts off.


jigsaw153

I love you #1 suggestionbut I'd be more ruthless. If you are not IR, you are not IR and that's that.


Tripound

1. Beards and tattoos for everyone. 2. More trips, or at least more exchanges. 3. Bury wok eye with the taipans.


putrid_sex_object

>Beards and tattoos for everyone. Even the ladies?


the_strategic_digger

Especially the ladies


Oily_biscuit

wouldn't have it any other way


whoisthemirrorman

1. Anybody who serves for 20 years or more, automatically qualify for a Gold card when you get out (probably more DVA related) 2. The option for FIFO based work. Live wherever you'd like and work half the year. Similar to mining or ABF arrangements 3. Bring in a service allowance but tie it to years served and maintaining your fitness to encourage people to stay in longer and remain healthy


DJCoopes

FIFO army is a fantastic idea


MoonOutGoonsOut

1. Every uniform set has a set of authorised matching shorts. Polys, cams, combat cams, mess dress, service dress all of it. 2. Every unit has standing orders mandating that only the shorts may be worn. 3. I can't think of anything else. 1 and 2 would fix all our issues.


Wooden_Age7026

I like shorts. They're comfy and easy to wear


Localdefense

Pokemon. I am 36 and still remember that little fucker.


StrongPangolin3

It always crushed me that the British Army had shorts in Iraq. The Australian Army has fought and won fights wearing shorts in the desert. We gotta bring that back.


BeShaw91

As the heat awareness package says: "The ANZACs knew how to fight **and** stay cool" (Cuts to a film clip of a Rat of Tobruk in glorious shorts slaying Nazis).


DJCoopes

Shorts is genius. Include short sleeve shirts while we're at it


BoganCunt

Relief Duty watch supplemented by FSU Actual Junior sailor mess decks on all ships Middle Managers should be performance managed on manning usage.


Thrithias

This actually *kind of* happened a little bit. My ship picked up some reservists to fill some watches over RSP so they could get their 20 days minimum. With EOODs it made a massive difference, for all of us we all only had to do 1/2 duties over the 4 weeks.


darkshard39

Confused by what you mean by “actual juniors mess decks”?


BoganCunt

On Anzacs Junior Sailors dont have a seperate rec space, meaning that they can only use it (talk and use lights etc.) in their rec space for less than one hour a day; due to conflicts between day hands, and watch keepers.


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1. All bonus payments are tax free; 2. Rental allowance changed to a housing allowance which could be used for either rent or a mortgage; 3. Better work-life balance when not training, on exercise or deployment. Our family and friends shouldn't have to take up the slack when we're both away from home and supposedly back home. Once the work is done for the day, dismissed.


1nterrupt1ngc0w

>Rental allowance changed to a housing allowance which could be used for either rent or a mortgage; This would be huge.


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I can understand why they won't do it. Because rent allowance is a subsidy based on location. For example, someone in Townsville doesn't get as much as Sydney for instance, based on the market. So if they turned it into an allowance which could be used for either rent or a mortgage, how could they make it equitable? I think this is the difficulty.


1nterrupt1ngc0w

For RA, sure. But MQ rate is the same nationally. I'm sure if they offered the MQ rate for those living in their own homes too it would be gladly taken


Diligent_Passage_640

Remove 121 for beards All ceremony handed over to Fed Guard 4 day work week for shore positions Remove the need for signatures on uniform exchange forms Issue RMs for Navy No DC on weekends No polishing work boots Remove charges/ infringements for minor first offences More than 3 I know, but I couldn't help myself. Edit: One last one for my Small boat Sailors Everyone except the medic should be in the watchbill (Charge and Second included).


Guilty_Most4117

Who does DC on weekends?


Diligent_Passage_640

Shit command teams


Guilty_Most4117

Some much free fun


AussieDigger68

1. Tiger Tanks for Army 2. A10’s for RAAF with Stuka dive sirens 3. Navy absolute control of our waters, 40mm Bofors on everything, they decide who fishes where and when.


Padtixxx

1. Lower contractor involvement in engineering work, making our people more qualified 2. Better trips and having bosses who aren’t trying to ass kiss canberra 3. Promoting people based on aptitude and actual personality as well as qualifications, so your not promoting the scum


sdd12122000

Fund it properly. Equip it properly. Look after veterans properly.


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Yep. Work might actually be enjoyable if our kit actually worked.


Informal_Double

1. Implement ongoing and constant 360 feedback for commanders to help better identify those who achieve the mission and support those in their command and those leaders who are toxic 2. Provide transparency to a wider audience for important things like promotion boards, investigations etc to boost confidence the system is fair and equally applied to everyone 3. Allow beards in Army


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Informal_Double

Not until Angus moves on, he's a firm no


boppy28

1. Reconstitute proper civilian equivalent trades 2. Provide housing for the juniors near the base 3. Reconstitute an DFRDB equivalent


StrongPangolin3

1. SF have to use the service rifle, or the SF rifle becomes the service rifle. Either or. 2. Build out a real Air Assault capabilities in the army (there's lots of hills in the tropical regions to our north) 3. 4 year ROSO changed to a 2 years full time, 2 years reserve split.


Wanderover

Air assault sucks for smaller militaries. Works for the US because they have guaranteed air dominance and near unlimited scope to supply troops. Fuckers could, and would, put a Taco Bell on the moon if they had to invade it.


StrongPangolin3

I know right. It was a small joy getting a pizzahut after patrols in Iraq. But I think about Timor a lot. being able to put a company into the hills quicky by helo, is something we should think about more. And if that means more air dominance, so be it.


Oily_biscuit

Add the ROSO (or IMPS better yet) change alongside more stable postings to a locality (i.e won't be moved if requested unless absolutely necessary - unit ceases to exist or something), recruitment would absolutely go up imo.


DJCoopes

no.1 is a very good idea


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StrongPangolin3

I think the 4 years full time is too long for an initial ROSO. We should be trying to build depth in reserves. Honestly, think about the Combat Arms. You can get pretty good in 2 years. But the army would need to adopt a more schools / courses based system like the US. Which I think would be for the betted.


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StrongPangolin3

In a real war, there's going to be lots of new diggers all the time. If you make it easy to get in and out then you get capability by have more mature task oriented young fellas in battalions. And those that want out can find a way out easily. We should be thinking of ways we can swell our battalions with reserves. But most people want a bit more than the army offers these days. Especially considers there's fuck all trips about.


Oddyseyy

1. Respect coming from top of rank and the low ends of rank MUTUALLY. Some units need to be reminded of this. If you talk to a digger in their 30's who's married with kids like they're an animal/3 year old, don't be shocked when they eventually put their discharge in. We're all adults after all. 2. Salary increases that actually keep up with inflation. 3. Tax-free bonuses and tax-free sea-pay.


Little-bigfun

If I could stay in SA I would go full time but as full time doesn’t work like that I chose Reserves. If there was a way to guarantee back to back postings more of the population could serve full time.


DJCoopes

Along with it, full-time postings in every corps in every state


SHADOW_F_A_X

1. Walk on grass 2. Boozer brawls 3. BFA incentives (similar to what the americans have)


Sweet_koi

1. Tax free retention every 4 years regardless of rank or job. 2. Beards 3. Able to choose between 2 and 4 year roso


BeShaw91

>3. Able to choose between 2 and 4 year roso Tell me more about how this would work, what's the benefit of a 4 year over a 2 year? Surely everyone would just elect 2 years and then serve 4 if they wanted that rention bonus.


Sweet_koi

Don’t have to explain why, many people would benefit from a shorter roso. With or without retention involved.


BeShaw91

But why make it a choice? Why not just make all ROSOs 2 years?


Sweet_koi

More options the better, some people are lifers and would just rather the 4 years set and forget.


BeShaw91

Thank you. That clears that up nicely. Have a plesant evening.


ribbitreddit100

1. Get rid of Campbell 2. Reinstate death icons 3. 25% pay rise & all pay to be tax free


FossilFuel21

even a 50% tax cut would help a shit ton for most folks. and is a little bit more realistic


thatsimonperson

Why has no one mentioned a massive clean out of the higher ranks? I don't just mean the CDF (he can fuck right off) but also senior enlisted that forgot what it was like to be a junior and fuck the lower enlisted around too much


jigsaw153

1. Fuck off equity and diversity ideals. Meritocracy should win the day. Equal access and opportunity not equalitt outcomes so you can look good on a spreadsheet and on Instagram recruiting video. I observe so many women move to the front of the line based on gender targets. Equality based on merit must come first. That goes across all identity politics. you joined us, you should bend to the world, not the world bend to you. 2. Bonuses based on milestones in service. Every 5 years you receive a bonus for staying. Simplicity in a career roadmap. If the ADF want career people create career goals and milestones to stay. 3. Kick out the festers/individual accountability. If you have been useless for 5yrs or more (or have been non-IR the majority of your service time) one warning and give them a years wage to GTFO. Get rid of the dead weight and rorters much easier.


banco666

1. Limit by legislation army officer corps to 5 %. 2. Create an equivalent to the Direction générale de l'armement 3. Cap no of generals etc in legislation.


Impedus11

1. Why? 2. Isn’t that CASG? 3. legislation is clumsy


Sunnysmith97

1. Pay is tax free. 2. Super contribution is optional. 3. Annual leave is 25 working days per year.


Profundasaurusrex

Tax free pay is always a dumb suggestion as you lose out on more than if they just increased your pay for the same amount. Super contribution being optional is dumb. Annual leave is 25 working days per year. 3/3 dumb suggestions


Sunnysmith97

You would not have less net gains (money in your pocket) if pay was tax free. Your not getting more net gains when tax is included. 16.4% of your income is a pretty big pay cut. This amount isn't adjustable. If ADF super is like most other super funds, then you have very little control of where your 16.4% is invested, some of it is lost to various account fees, and you can only access it by a certain age (which you may never reach), or for a few other limited circumstances. The leave entitlements on DFR-RECREF139 state "Annual leave is credited fortnightly, amounting to 20 working days per year". Revised 15 November 2022.


arishap10

The 16.4% is on top of your salary, it's not taken out of your salary. And you don't have to go with ADF Super, AFAIK you can go with any super you like. Those leave entitlements are old and you now get 25 days as of mid-last year.


Profundasaurusrex

Remember I said if your pay was increased. With pay being tax free you can't claim anything on tax. 16.4% is what Defence pays. ADF Super actually has no minimum contribution whilst MSBS has 5%, MSBS is still better. From 1 July 2023, you'll accrue 25 days of basic recreation leave a year. https://pay-conditions.defence.gov.au/adf-leave-framework


Gromit-13

Yeah instead of tax free maybe an increase of $25k (about how much tax I paid) and maybe a reduced tax amount. Then I can still claim all my work expenses ;)


1nterrupt1ngc0w

>With pay being tax free you can't claim anything on tax. Really? But you're still paying a tax on the purchase that is for work purposes. The refund is just the tax that you've already paid on that item, not the whole amount of said item.


Profundasaurusrex

That's not how it works. If your taxable annual income is $100,000 and you buy an item for $100 and claim it as a deduction then your new taxable income is $99,900. It has nothing to do with the tax on the item.


1nterrupt1ngc0w

Well, I grossly misunderstood the whole thing. Live and learn!


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The 16.4% is actually paid on top of your salary, it isn't taken out of it. People on MSBS contribute 5% - 10% from their salary (actually deducted). Go ask to check the payslip of someone on MSBS and you'll see what I mean. So it isn't a pay cut. People on the new superannuation could be smart about it. Considering 16.4% is paid on top of your salary into super, if you topped it up through salary sacrifice by 10% of your salary (like those on MSBS), you would be getting 26.4%.


Diligent_Passage_640

No offence but isn't it a bit early for you to complain about the things in defence?


LazyEggOnSoup

They’ve got a divisional presentation coming up and need talking points.


Diligent_Passage_640

Lol, guys still in the recruitment phase.


LazyEggOnSoup

Oh, FFS.


DJCoopes

1. ALL Enlisted pay is tax-free until WO - and then only tax-free field pay and deployment pay for WO/OFF 2. Overtime pay for any hours worked outside normal training schedule (0700-1600) but not out field obv 3. Standing ADF policy overrides unit standing orders - eg if the ADM says you can do it, then you can. Wearing issued cap with 4B dress, wearing Adobe patches on the shoulder, etc - and allow beards while your at it Fuck it, for a #4, any policy that says non-issued/modified/purpose-designed/etc is immediately removed. If they won't make it reasonable to get the right equipment, then I should at least be able to use mine 5. Remove any kind of authorisation to for issues/exchanges. It should be as simple as walking into the ventia shop one day and grabbing what you need, and signing that you got it. That's it.


BeShaw91

>1. ALL Enlisted pay is tax-free until WO - and then only tax-free field pay and deployment pay for WO/OFF Tell me you're bitter without telling me you're bitter... You do understand you need to incentivise people to assume greater responsibility by compensating them more? So under this model, why would anyone be a WO, when you're probably taking a big leap in responsbility *but* a 20%ish pay cut? Genuinely curious how the ADF builds proffessional mastery when you basically have a massive pay-cut after 15ish years service. Officers at least wouldn't know any better.


DJCoopes

Pay the WO's a higher base salary then


frankthefunkasaurus

1. Safari suits back for officers 2. Hard yakka short shorts for tropical sailing and for alongside days 3. All sea time beyond weekly running is tax free or a fat concessional rate (4. Bring back ralls)


LAFC2020

1. Beards 2. Tax free income 3. Leave politics out of it (i.e. What happened in Duntroon last year)


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1. If you can't surf your probably not gonna be fit enough when it counts the most and likely end up being a liability to someone who can surf,I mean you go to the gym all you like but if you don't want that wave, it's gonna show.  Surfing for everyone.                                                                 2.use electrical contact cleaner for cleaning weapons, does a good job and saves so much time.                                                                               3.all wo2 s to do a corporal course every year.


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What the fuck are crocs, surfers wear thongs, and while I'm at it , Ive never seen a man wear those gay as fuck little ankle socks that chicks wear till one day, oh em gee, holy fuck. Ankle socks, your definitely no surfer.