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. […]
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We detail the lead up to the Hoddle Street Shooting Spree of 9th August 1987 from Julian Knight’s targeted and relentless subjection to hate-filled criminal persecution (bastardisation) by senior cadets at the Australian Army Officer Royal Military College at Duntroon (Jan – Jun 1987). This sad and horrific tale of Hoddle Street […]
This article was first published 7th March 2012 by a former Army mate of Julian Knight, Staff Cadet Steven Ridd whom at Duntroon trained alongside Knight in the same recruit intake of January 1987. Staff Cadet Ridd was assigned to the same training Third Class, same training ‘Kokoda Company’, same training […]
What is the commonly accepted definition of ‘corruption‘? “dishonest or illegal behaviour involving a person in a position of power”. In light of the judgment of the Honourable Button J in Knight v Defence Force Ombudsman [2024] FCA 474, (at paragraph 147), Mr KNIGHT is challenging the Defence Force Ombudsman (DFO) […]
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 […]
INTRO: This is the third article of a series of five articles concerning Mr Knight’s legal case challenge of 2023 against the Australian Government’s Defence Force Ombudsman due to its failure in due process of Mr Knight’s legitimate reparations claim in 2013 for the Defence abuse he suffered at Duntroon in […]
“Bastardisation in the military has been much in the news these past few weeks, especially with the scandals at the Australian Defence Force Academy aired by the ABC on its recent Four Corners program. As I watched it all unfold, it stirred up mixed emotions for me – I am a […]
Just how depraved can Australian Defence Force (ADF) officer training get? Well, this depraved: This debased slang dictionary of 32-pages comes from officer cadets at ADFA in 1987, Canberra’s newly formed so-called ‘Australian Defence Force Academy’ just the year prior in 1986. The slang (‘lingo‘) was inherited from old Duntroon […]
Julian Knight’s sustained abuse by senior cadets whilst training to be an Army Officer at the Royal Military College Duntroon in early 1987 involved repeated regular instances of (A) Physical Abuse and (B) Workplace Harassment and Bullying. Collectively such mistreatment amounted to ‘Bastardisation‘ – a sick negative ADF culture of […]
Lessons from the British ‘Saltburn’ series… Saltburn is a 2023 black comedy psychological thriller film written, directed, and co-produced by whomever and starring whomever. It’s set in POSH Oxford and Northamptonshire, England, it focuses on an Oxford University student who becomes fixated with a popular, aristocratic fellow student at his university, […]
On 3rd March 2023, Julian Knight in his prison cell became aware of false media reporting of him being wrongly accused of supposedly reaching out to veterans groups for financial reparations/benefits. The media was misinformed, it was unsubstantiated innuendo and manifestly wrong. News Ltd email to Mr Knight: From: charles miranda […]
COMMENT: The following article was published under this title on ‘The Conversation‘ website by Ben Wadham, Senior Lecturer, Flinders University on 1st March 2014. We reproduce it without the bias by AAP photo comments allowed by The Conversation’s editor, and we add a few select photos ourselves. In February […]
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 […]
Any Duntroon Staff Cadet who was training at the Australian Army’s Royal Military College (RMC) at Duntroon in Canberra during the January 1987 intake, who had any association with Staff Cadet Julian Knight at the time, else observed the treatment Knight was subjected to, is requested to contact this website, being […]
Following a spate of public accounts from many Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel (serving, and former serving, and trainees) who had complained about receiving systemic personal abuse while in the ADF, Australia’s then Minister for Defence Senator the Hon. David Johnston and the then Attorney General Senator the Hon George […]
~ this article is written by an invited contributing author holding close personal insight. This is the only official website authorised by Mr Julian Knight. Julian is a former Army Officer Cadet at Royal Military College at Duntroon in Australia’s national capital city, Canberra. The content of this website is […]
Aside from subsequent media scrutiny over the decades since the Hoddle Street Shootings, on the very next day, Monday 10th August 1987, Melbourne’s lead newspaper The Age reported the specific crime event as a news story on its front page. That news article represented objective factual journalism. The Unbiased Journalism