2016 DEFENCE WHITE PAPER

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22 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY International engagement As Australia’s strategic environment becomes more complex it is important to further develop our international partnerships including with our allies the United States and New Zealand, and with Japan, Indonesia, India, Singapore, the Republic of Korea, China and other key partners. Defence’s international engagement is an important part of the Government’s approach to building international partnerships, which also includes trade, diplomacy, foreign aid and economic capacity building in a range of government and non-government sectors. Defence will increase its investment in international engagement over the next 20 years to help reduce the risk of military confrontation, build interoperability with key partners and improve the coordination of responses to shared international challenges including terrorism and humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. International engagement will become an integrated core function across the entire Defence portfolio, aligned with the Strategic Defence Objectives. The Defence Cooperation Program, currently providing defence assistance to 28 countries, will be enhanced to build the confidence and capacity of our important regional partners. The ADF will participate more regularly in multinational exercises and the overseas presence of Defence personnel will be gradually increased over time. Defence preparedness Higher levels of Defence preparedness will be required to support increased ADF activity in the region, while maintaining the ADF’s ability to make meaningful contributions to global security operations where our interests are engaged. The Government has directed an increase in the ADF’s preparedness level, based on raising its overall capability and improving its sustainability on operations. More funding is being provided to ensure that the ADF has greater capacity and agility to respond to strategic risks.
Capability 23 People The quality of our people is the foundation of Defence’s capability, effectiveness and reputation. Defence is an integrated workforce with military and civilian personnel working together across the spectrum of Defence activities. All parts of the Defence workforce will need to upgrade their skills as part of building a more capable, agile and potent future force. To meet the demands of the higher‐technology future force set out in this Defence White Paper, the Government will undertake the largest single rebalance of the Defence workforce in a generation. The Permanent ADF workforce will grow to around 62,400 over the next decade to return it to its largest size since 1993. A new contemporary workforce management model will increase the ability of ADF members to move between the Permanent ADF and Reserves to better meet their individual circumstances and best harness their skills and expertise. This will provide ADF members with more opportunities to contribute to Australia’s defence. This Defence White Paper provides for a future Australian Public Service (APS) workforce of around 18,200 Full Time Staff Equivalent (FTE), down from 22,300 FTE in June 2012. This workforce will be rebalanced with around 1,200 new APS positions in areas critical to Defence’s future capability, including intelligence, cyber security and space-based capabilities, offset by ongoing reductions elsewhere in the APS workforce. The strength of Defence’s leadership, and its ability to adapt and embrace a more diverse and inclusive culture, will be critical to attracting and retaining the workforce it needs for the future. Gender equality and increasing female participation in the Defence workforce and in senior leadership roles is fundamental to achieving Defence capability now and into the future. Defence has confronted the need for behavioural and attitudinal change with the release in 2012 of Pathway to Change: Evolving Defence Culture. The cultural change program continues to strengthen Defence’s capability through creating an organisational climate focused on diversity and inclusion that will attract the best people for the job. Further details can be found in Chapter Six. 2016 DEFENCE WHITE PAPER
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