It was 1998 and the Australian Defence Force brass had ‘heard’ of complaints of sexual abuse of female cadets in its premier Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) within its mixed sex cadet barracks.
What became abbreviated by the media as being ‘The Grey Review’ was officially reported by Bronwyn Grey as the ‘Australian Defence Force : report of the Review into Policies and Practices to Deal with Sexual Harassment and Sexual Offences at the Australian Defence Force Academy‘.
It was an internal review by the Australian Defence Force (ADF) into ADFA. The review was reported back to the ADF and published as a printed book by the Directorate of Publishing and Visual Communications within the Australian Department of Defence. Then it was quickly read, filed, and removed from public access. However a few rare copies were held in the State Library of Victoria and the ADFA student cadet library in print form only.
The year 1998 was just a decade after RMC (Duntroon’s) senior cadet bastardisation of junior Staff Cadet Julian KNIGHT and his consequential psychotic massacre fallout upon civvy Hoddle Street, committed just weeks out of RMC.
The ADF did squat – on both occasions. But then out of frustration, the rapes got reported to the media. So the brass boys club had to be seen to act. But they didn’t act to stamp out the rape culture; instead they just undertook a ‘review’. But the brass didn’t do the review, rather they just got an external consultant to investigate and write up report. It was for internal ADF brass eyes only. Then they just filed it.- ‘business as usual’ …”In this man’s Army“..nothing to see here!
But we managed to get a copy. We provide the following extracts as evidence of the crap that happens in the ADF at trainee officer level known as ‘AFDA’.
The Grey Review of 1998 – Contents:
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The Grey Review of 1998 – Executive Summary:
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ADFA had been established beside the Army’s Royal Military College at Duntroon in Canberra in 1986, to be a tri-service military academy to provide military and academic education for junior officers of the Australian Defence Force in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), Australian Army and Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) as well as international trainee officers from a variety of countries.
In 2016, the academy began accepting civilian students in its undergraduate courses. This is because the ADF was desperate for recruits, given its ongoing dodgy reputation. The tertiary education is provided by the University of New South Wales’ Canberra campus, known as UNSW Canberra at ADFA, which is the awarding body for ADFA qualifications. Apart from educating future leaders of the Australian Defence Force, UNSW Canberra also provides postgraduate programs and short courses both to Department of Defence personnel and the general public.
The stated purpose of ADFA is “to serve Australia by providing the Australian Defence Force (ADF) with tertiary graduates who have the attributes, intellect and skills required of an officer”.
But we do not recommend women consider attending this otherwise bully boys club.
