Australian Defence Force Archives

ADF’s recruitment crisis getting worse under Albanese Government…

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 […]

2011-2013: Review into the Treatment of Women in the Australian Defence Force

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 […]

Sep 2025: Julian Knight’s broken nose bashed in 1987 whilst serving at Duntroon – to be finally fixed after 38 years!

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 […]

Knight v Defence Force Ombudsman [2025] FCA 1098

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 […]

Leftist purple homosexual mandate for the Australian Defence Force will encourage enemy Beijing PLA to laugh at Canberra

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 […]

Knight’s latest appeal battle – never give up against Goliath Government!

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 […]

Duntroon Hate clarified

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. […]

A 2024 book about Institutional Abuse within the Australian Defence Force

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 […]

Knight’s sworn statement to Federal Police about his Defence Abuse at RMC

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 […]

2014: Knight sues Duntroon and his assailants from 1987 – senior cadets Philip John Reed and Craig Colis Thorp

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 […]

Julian was only 18 when he joined Duntroon from Puckapunyal

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 […]

Political Prisoner in Victoria since 2014

This is the official website of Australian Soldier* Julian Knight.

Julian Knight, having duly served 27 years sentence in 1988 by the Supreme Court of Victoria’s for his immediately confessed mass crime, in 2014 unelected politician Denis Napthine usurped the judiciary and illegally imposed indefinite detention. Instantly in 2014 Julian Knight became not a criminal, but a political prisoner of the Victorian Government No. 49821 held at Port Phillip Prison | formerly Army Corps of Staff Cadet No. 5266 at the Royal Military College Duntroon | formerly Australian Army Reserve Trooper No. 3204059.

*Soldier: We consider the title of Soldier to be a noble profession the moment a civilian signs up to serve Country, followed by training, experience and sacrifice in battle. So we duly grammatise it with a capital ‘S’. ADF personnel (whether a ‘Soldier’, ‘Sailor’, ‘Aircrew’, or any other ADF role, from Day 1 to serve their country (Australia) instantly becomes a special member of our vital Australian Defence Force.

From Day 1 sign-up, each Army recruit deserves this capital title ‘Soldier’ despite pre-trained, pre- experienced, pre-active service, pre-medal recipient, pre-veteran, pre-wounded, pre-KIA.

Such military ‘sign up’ is so much a distinct and a higher calling that most other professions / trades.

Let no person who has ever ‘signed up to serve their country‘ ever hold any doubt of their rare courage to serve. We Australians as CIVVY citizens hold a profound civilian duty to respect and be proud of what these relative few committed souls put their lives in harm’s way and continue to champion and protect our fortunate way of life in Australia. They proudly follow in the legacy of our forebears of similar ilk who hard-fought and sacrificed.

Sadly increasingly these are forgotten brave heroes. History repeats. Sadly, negative and dangerous mis-training of those so committed risks outcomes like Hoddle Street (1987) and Full Metal Bullet (1987). Both a bully bad year of Soldier negative recruitment training.