The festival is too much for those of us with kids and dogs and a mortgage and not enough Rec Leave up our sleeves.
In every conflict involving our soldiers since the Boer War, Australians have managed to find ways to make their time inside camp and their rec leave more tolerable.
The leave that the member is on, whether Rec Leave or long service leave, has already been earned during the member's service.
"I'd already exhausted all my rec leave," she said.
I have persistently and consistently used my own sick leave and rec leave for my caring, because that is all that is available.