Defence academy may be shut

[kiwi]

Defence academy may be shut

Yuko Narushima
April 5, 2008


THE Australian Defence Force Academy, established to give military personnel university qualifications, faces closure as the Government seeks savings.

A $2000 subsidy that rewards motorists for switching from petrol to a cheaper, cleaner gas is also under threat.

The Federal Government, which promised to reduce spending, could not rule out either measure.

The Chief of Air Force, Air Marshal Geoff Shepherd, yesterday declined to comment on a report that the defence academy, a campus of the University of NSW in Canberra, would close.

Closing the academy could help the Minister for Defence, Joel Fitzgibbon, keep his promise to cut $1 billion a year from defence spending over the next decade without diminishing defence capabilities.

The academy's acting rector, Professor John Arnold, called the report an unfounded rumour.

A university spokeswoman said: "We remain convinced that ADFA is the best model for recruiting officers for the ADF and look forward to continuing to train them."

Ending the fuel conversion subsidy was "environmental madness", said the Opposition Leader, Brendan Nelson, who accused the Government of forgetting ordinary Australians.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/defence-academy-may-be-shut/2008/04/04/1207249466592.html

[sniper]

About time tradition and crap was scrapped....get back to OCS Portsea and OS Skeyville....where the best natural officers came from......the only difference between a graduate of portsea was his course went for 12 months....Duntroon went for 4 years,  3 years at uny and the last 12 months doing exactly as the Portsea grads did.....how do I know...spent time Instructing at both.

If you have to travel 50 kms you can do it as well in a holden as you can in a limmo.

[Revrnd]

This is sad... they may as well start recruiting our officers from low socio-economic areas as they'll most likely have previous experience in finishing a fight. 

Sounds to me like the gov. is    trying to get everything they said (well... most everything) done as soon as possible..

personally I think they need a  and  and start to wake up and realise they can't do everything at once without consequences.

I  but when things start heading toward  then I start to get a bit