Julian Knight’s psychotic criminal mass murder outburst in back in 1987, branded in the media newspeak as ‘The Hoddle Street Massacre‘ was a still undiagnosed psychotic violent reaction immediately following Knight’s never undiagnosed trauma from Duntroon Bastardisation.
Knight (then aged just 18 upon his acceptance into RMC Duntroon) became yet another case of a young junior Defence Force officer cadet being bastardised (i.e. sadistically abused and tormented by bullying senior cadets) in barracks/after hours as indoctrination code of the ADF’s institutionalised ‘weed them out’ culture.
Nothing has changed since RMC Duntroon was established in 1911 and the second intake of recruits in 1912 reported sadistic ‘hazing’ (old word for bastardiation) of the junior cadets by the 1911 intake of senior cadets. So began the Australia Defence Force’s condoned instituitionalised culture of ‘toughening up’ its young male soldier recruits.
Staff Cadet Knight’s abuse case is not the first out of notorious RMC Duntroon of Canberra, nor out of the reported legacy of so many abuse cases within Australia’s Defence Force (ADF) in general.
For generations of successive military command in our Army, Navy and Air Force, leadership has criminally excused, condoned, turned a cultural blind eye to such criminal behaviour. It comes across as a cyclical tragedy being repeated at ever intake of young good people prepared to commit to serve our country with their life.
This is what Julian Knight at aged 18 did along with this editor. No knowing ourselves, we both from Melbourne signed up to the ADF to train to become Army Officers and for a long career full-time in the Australian Regular Army in 1987 at Melbourne’s Watsonia Army Barracks. After signing we, in our civvies were immediately bussed by the Army up to Canberra to enter Duntroon to subject ourselves to the ‘Army officer training’ regime.
That is my recollection of events then in January 1987 as a 22 year old. That is Julian’s recollection as a mere 18 year old. We had never met previously, nor at Watsonia, nor on the bus from Melbourne to Canberra.
But when we arrived in Canberra and enterd throug the gun gate at RMC Duntroon then got ‘inducted’, kitted up and ‘assigned’ by the NCO marching squad, Julian was in my same 3rd Class year intake, was assigned to my same company ‘Kokoda’, my same 15 Platoon and my same 45 Section. The three of us 3rd Class staff cadets: WHITTING, KNIGHT AND RIDD.
The ADF feel they are absolved to perpetuate the bullying in military training as they have themselves endured – on the premise that they must be toughened up for active service. The true report of cadet abuse (out of sight within company training barracks) by a senior cadet gang inflicting anal rape upon a freshman junior cadet (one of their own mind you) using a broom handle, well can only be an act of cruel, sadistic and hatefilled criminality.
Duntroon is a sick asylum and evidence reveals has been so since its establishment way back in 1911. The place must be shut down, just like the Victorian 1867 Aradale Lunatic Asylum in Ararat finally did in 1993.
ADF behind closed doors, like Canberra, perpetuates closed door immorality in our country out of sight of Australian civil society. Our successive federal governments and federal parliaments in Canberra have refused a Royal Commission into documented and proven systemic and institutionalised abuse of Australia’s signed-up (in good faith) young eager personnel.
We have gathered research about this sadly and horrific broader ADF culture of abuse and herein summarise our yet to be published exposure accounts, warts and bloody all!
The following document we have prepared is a tabulated summary of the chronological record of various records over the life of the ADF since 1911 that document repeated abuse of ADF trainee cadets and serving personnel. The legacy is shocking, disgusting, criminal and hateful and so demand a Royal Commission into this systemic and institutionalised abuse culture being perpetuated to this day under Australia’s military command in all three ADF services – Army, Navy, Air Force. (ADF ranks them in this order or priority – recruitment, funding, training, weapons systems, etc.)
Do not join up until this friggen sick culture of cadet abuse is independently exterminated, and the place shut down.
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