Members who are posted to A location listed in Annex 4.4.A: Remote locations for ADF district allowance. can use remote location leave travel (RLLT) to take a break from the location.
If your resident family lives with you in the location, they may also get RLLT benefits.
You can also use your RLLT benefits to bring close family members to your location to visit you.
You can use your RLLT benefit to travel away from your remote location during leave periods, including recreation leave, or during a stand down periods such as the Christmas break.
Travel schemes
There are 2 RLLT schemes: Scheme A and Scheme B. Depending on your family situation and location, you may be eligible for both schemes.
You can access your benefits from the day you start your posting in the remote location and stop on the last day of your posting to the location.
Children under 2 don’t have their own benefit because airlines don’t require them to have their own seat.
You can only use one benefit at a time for each person travelling.
Scheme A
You’ll be eligible for Scheme A if you’re posted to a remote location and you expect to serve there for at least one year.
Grade A locations
You and any resident family members aged 2 or older who live with you get one RLLT benefit at the start of each 12-month period.
Other remote locations
You and any resident family members over the age of 2 who live with you get 2 RLLT benefits at the start of each 12-month period.
Find out more about your RLLT benefits under Scheme A.
Scheme B
You’ll be eligible for Scheme B if you have accompanied resident family and you’re posted to a Grade B, C, D or E location and you expect to be at that location for at least one year.
You and any resident family members aged 2 get or older who live with you get one RLLT benefit at the start of each 12-month period.
Find out more about your RLLT benefits under Scheme B.
Accompanied resident family who live in a remote location
If you have accompanied resident family in a remote location and you've been posted elsewhere, your accompanied resident family continue to accrue their benefits if:
- you become a member who has unaccompanied resident family in your new location
- your family stay in the remote location as your unaccompanied resident family.
If this happens, your unaccompanied resident family can use their benefit to visit you or they can transfer their benefits to either:
- you, so you can visit them in the remote location
- a close family member, so that person can visit you in your location.
Travelling to or from Tindal
If you or your resident family need to travel to or from Tindal as a part of your remote location leave travel, Defence will pay the lesser of:
- vehicle allowance for the journey between Tindal and Darwin
- the costs to hire a vehicle between Tindal and Darwin.
Changes in circumstances that affect your RLLT benefits
If your family’s categorisation changes while you are in a remote location, for example from accompanied resident family to unaccompanied resident family, your RLLT benefits under the old categorisation stop and benefits under your new one start.
You start accruing new benefits from the day the categorisation change is approved.
You do not have to pay back any RLLT travel you may have taken in advance.
Find out more about changes in your family and personal life that affect your benefits.