ADF to open recruitment to Pacific foreign citizens

Australian Community Media

The Australian Defence Force will open recruitment to New Zealand citizens, who have been an Australian permanent resident for at least a year from July 1, 2024.

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00:00 From the 1st of July, we will be opening up entry into the Australian Defence Force for

00:05 New Zealand citizens who have been permanent residents for a year. And then from the 1st

00:12 of January, that will be extended to five eyes countries. That's the decision that we've taken.

00:17 But we do have an eye beyond that to the Pacific really. And a precondition of all of this will be

00:25 having been a permanent resident for 12 months at least and obviously passing all the security

00:33 checks which would apply to any Australian who joins the Australian Defence Force. We are looking

00:37 to grow the Defence Force through to 2040 and in order to do that, we do need to be looking at a

00:43 wider pool of people.

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