Australian Defence Forces ‘desperate’ in search for recruits

Former Australian Special Forces commando Wes Hennessey “categorically disagrees” with the idea of recruiting non-Australians into the Defence Forces. “We have a retention issue; we have a recruitment issue,” he told Sky News host Erin Molan. “You would have read in the media that we are contemplating bringing in recruits who have non-Australian citizenship - which I categorically disagree with. “But it just gives you an idea of how desperate the Australian Defence Forces is to build the numbers that we require into the future.” Mr Hennessey’s comments come as the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs Matt Keogh said the government are looking at how they might be able to grow the ADF from "friendly forces from other countries.”