First, read this official Australian Army letter to wrongfully accused LTCOL Karel Dubsky and note its date, and frankly it’s a crap bureaucratic excuse, with no deserved apology by Army! Second, it was not written by the most senior officer at the time LTGEN David Morrison (Chief of Army 2011-2014) who […]
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Wanna career in the Army with the likes of hissy-fitting ‘inclusive’ of garbage Morrison in charge? [SOURCE: ‘Sacked colonel wants answers from Morrison‘, 21st October 2016 , by Kieran Rooney, Townsville Bulletin, https://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/news/sacked-colonel-wants-answers-from-morrison/news-story/dab37beb1a89b9cfb492b5593a7851cf] Former Army chief David Morrison (2011-2014) has faced renewed pressure to explain (kneejerk unjustly) sacking a Townsville-based […]
Any bloody wonder? “Australian Defence Force recruiting systems need to be overhauled if the ADF is to sustain and increase its size in the coming years. The ADF also needs to make changes to entry standards so it can take maximum advantage of the pool of applicants. In early 2024, the […]
Review into the Treatment of Women in the Australian Defence Force [2011-2013] 26th March, 2014, by the Australian Human Rights Commission, https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/sex-discrimination/projects/review-treatment-women-australian-defence-force The Australian Human Rights Commission (the Commission) conducted a Review, firstly of the treatment of women at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) (phase one) and, secondly, into the effectiveness […]
Royal Military College Staff Cadet Julian Knight in 1987 was bashed by Kokoda senior cadet acting CSM Philip Reed, in coward punch breaking Julian’s nose. Julian Knight’s legal testimony: “At around 0100hrs on Saturday 23 May 1987, I left the Private Bin (nightclub) with Kokoda Company 3rd Class cadets Craig SMITH […]
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On 11th September 2025, the Federal Court of Australia (Victoria Registry) presided over by Justice Mark Kranz Moshinsky handed down its “judgment” against applicant Mr Julian Knight in the civil appeal case Knight v Defence Force Ombudsman [2025] FCA 1098. In fact this was not a judgment, but a lazy politically […]
It seems Melbourne’s full-blown leftist RMIT Uni’s* woke ‘Make It Purple‘? campaign infected some leftist political teal toff in Canberra such to then mandatorily impose upon the ADF’s military cadets that on some token queer day no ADFA cadets be permitted to wear military uniform, but bizarrely only dress in purple […]
Victorian political prisoner Mr Julian Knight maintains his unrelenting legal battles against the compromised judiciary over the recurring injustice of mistrials by successively biased ombudsmen and justices. The most recent appeal process has been the hearing by the Federal Court of Australia (Melbourne) of Mr Knight’s appeal against his being refused […]
But “finest” at what? RMC Duntroon, from experience of many hopeful and ambitious cadets, inculcates negative leadership and intra-company distrust, rivalries, resentment and hate. Senior cadets ranked at just six months of Duntroon training apart are institutionally pitted against incoming junior 3rd Class cadets recruited to own company from Day 1. […]
Julian Knight has requested a relevant new nonfiction book published by Melbourne University Press on 17th September 2024. It’s entitled ‘Warrior Soldier Brigand – Institutional Abuse within the Australian Defence Force‘, written by two researching professors. Professor Ben Wadham PhD, an Army Infantry veteran himself, specialises in Sociology at Flinders University […]
Statement in the matter of: ‘Assault of Julian Knight at Duntroon’ This statement made by me accurately sets out the evidence that I would be prepared, if necessary, to give in court as a witness. The statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief and I make […]
INTRO: By way of background, following the notorious 2011 Skype Sex Scandal out of the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA), the Australia Government led by Prime Minister Julia Gillard at the time (2010-2013) initiated its Department of Defence to conduct a series of independent investigations and reviews into multiple allegations of […]
Aussie bush folk band Redgum – their enduring veteran protest anthem: “I Was Only Nineteen (A Walk in the Light Green)“ [Released in March 1983] [Verse 1] Mum and Dad and Denny saw the passing out parade at Puckapunyal It was a long march from cadets The Sixth Battalion was the […]