Aussies - share your DHA experiences

[Bugalugs]

The Defence Housing Authority is the civilian organisation within the Australian Defence Organistion that allocates service housing to Defence members.

Personally, I think that they are a pox - they are for me the worst aspect of life as a service member, and their management are such a pack of useless, inflexible, tight bastards that they have actually caused me to think about separating from the service because they have made life for my wife and I such a nightmare.

I am now happy to make all efforts to make their lives as hard as possible, because frankly they've screwed mine around enough over the last few years that I can see myself as the an anointed deliverer of cosmic karma in messing them around in return.

I would invite any other Aussies on the site to share their experiences, and service members from other countries to share the way it works in their country IOT allow us to consider alternatives.

My ultimate aim is to assess the viability a starting a petition for the Defence Minister, to give DHA the arse and introduce a differant system, if one exists, that will make service life a little better, and might even save money wasted on DHA, to buy more bombs, bullets, and bread.

"Hey ho!,
Hey ho!,
D-H-A has got to go!"

...........any takers?

[Bugalugs]

Aw ****, wrong forum! how do i change?

[digrar]

I only had to work through them for a removal to my discharge loc, but I never heard many good stories from the maried types. From all accounts it's another perk of the job that doesn't measure up. How unusal.
What do you reckon about scrapping married quarters and just handing out rental assistance, scaled to the size of your family, rank and area you are posted to?

[Bugalugs]

That was my cunning plan, until i heard the americans just get a housing allowance whichg they can spend on rent, mortgage, whatever. This sounds simpler because the UPR could do it, instead of relying on a lumbering, slow, hungry pubic service behemoth like HA. I heard an Air Commodore went on a trip to look at all of these alternatives, but canned the U.S. model alternative because there were lots of serviceman living in caravan parks and supposedly being exposed to undesirable elements (over and above the infantry, of course). Cold some Americans elaborate on this stuff?