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Terry Johanson: Massey University Centre for Defence and Security Studies lecturer on NZDF spending millions to stop workers quitting
The Government's been forking out cash to turn the tap off on people flooding out of military jobs.
The Defence Force is reportedly spending $60 million in one-off payments to stop workers quitting.
Massey University's Centre for Defence and Security Studies lecturer, Terry Johanson, says the idea could work if people are leaving because of the pay.
"If it's money, then it will stop it. If they're leaving because of job dissatisfaction, because they're not getting to do what they joined the military to do, then perhaps it won't."
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The Detail's Long Read: In Our Defence
In Our Defence by Pete McKenzie: The defence force is spending up billions, but not on personnel's languishing wages or housing. Now, its ranks are thinning.
Afghanistan’s war dropping out of sight
Twenty years after the US invaded Afghanistan in pursuit of Al Qaeda, it suddenly pulled its troops out this week. It’s the end of the longest war in modern history in which 3500 New Zealanders also served and 10 died. Will it be out of sight and out of mind for the media now the country is on its own again?
Like Some Law With That?
The host, Simon Ewing-Jarvie, takes a high level pass over several pieces of New Zealand legislation that either need amendment or should be created in order to improve the country's national security legislative framework.
The discussion includes the raising of a National Security Agency and National Security Impact Statements for all new Bills as well as better use of existing legislation - such as S50A of the Defence Act declaring Situations of National Interest. The latter, the host argues, should automatically trigger qualifying operational service, veteran status and medallic recognition. The definition of exactly who is a veteran is noted, as is the subject of a National Emergency Medal.
This episode also traverses the need for an Armed Forces Covenant Act to legislate the social contract between the state and those that put their lives at risk in its protection. It also introduces the idea of a NZ War Graves Commission , improvements to the Volunteers' Employment Protection Act and a new Voluntary National Service Scheme.
Indefensible New Zealand
en-nzJune 30, 2021
'Hit and Run' runs its course
It’s three years since ‘Hit and Run’ first put Operation Burnham in the headlines, throwing light on a situation that unfolded far from the public gaze. The official report is out after a long and costly inquiry. What did the media make of the outcome?
Where in the world is our defence force?
Our Defence Force may be small but our troops are spread all over the world, sometimes in conflict zones that have left the headlines, and some places that are unexpected.
The tragic results of NZDF's failure to clean up after Bamyan
Stuff Circuit reporters Paula Penfold and Eugene Bingham on how they uncovered the deaths of seven children as a result of New Zealand's failure to clear explosive remnants from its former firing range in Afghanistan.