Yet, our despicable Defence senior leadership can't trim the fat on flag-ranks and senior executive staff. That says it all right there on the quality of senior leadership in Defence.
General Hurley also revealed the number of senior military officers, which has grown by 70 per cent in recent years, would be cut by a dozen jobs when the Afghanistan mission was over in 2014.
Wow, General Hurley. A whole dozen.
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The Cost of Defence: ASPI Defence Budget Brief 2012-2013
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As can be seen, over the past fifteen years the number of civilian senior executives has
increased by 69% and military star‐rank officers by 70%. At the same time, the civilian
workforce grew by only 27% and the military workforce by only 11%. Over a similar time
frame, the numbers of civilian and military senior officers have grown by 94% and 42%
respectively. Although the budget papers show a reduction in the number of civilian senior
officers in Defence and DMO in 2012‐13, such predictions have been made in the past and
not occurred.
At every senior level in the civilian and military workforce the number of managers and
executives has increased at a rate well in excess of the growth in the size of the overall
workforce. However, as might be expected, the fastest rate of increase has occurred at the
level of Deputy Secretary and 3‐star military officer (Table 2.5.12) where much of the growth
is very recent, including as a result of the 2007 Defence Management Review.
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Third, the actual remuneration of civilian personnel has increased much more quickly than
for the military workforce, in part, through the ‘level enrichment’ shown in Table 2.5.13.
(Civilian senior officers make up 28% of the civilian workforce while military senior officers
only account for less than 3%.
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