We want you! ADF recruitment rates are growing, even as the odds of conflict rise. Why are people signing up?

The number of full-time personnel across navy, army and air force grew to more than 64,000 this year, making it the largest military in 25 years We’re herded into a sterile elevator by a woman in navy camouflage fatigues and carried up to the 11th floor, overlooking Parramatta’s central business district on a dreary afternoon in Sydney’s west. At the front of the room, dressed in a khaki green uniform behind a lectern, stands army corporal Joel Kellner. In the corner, a portrait of King Charles III rests on a wooden easel.