While police services around the country are poaching officers and recruits from each other by offering thousands of dollars in sign-on incentives, relocation costs and paid-up study, the oldest military training college in the country this year had 201 graduates, the most in its 112-year history.
The desire to sign on for officer training at Canberra's Royal Military Academy at Duntroon is running at its highest level yet, ironically at a time when skills shortages across a wide range of critical vocations, such as teaching and nursing, are at near-crisis levels.
