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) […]
RMC Duntroon Bastardisation
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 […]
The following document is an exact copy of the original document (of Duntroon Bastardisation experiences in 1987) as authorised by Mr Julian Knight that he submitted to the Defence Abuse Response Taskforce on 26 November 2013. This document’s title is ‘COMPLAINT OF HISTORICAL ABUSE‘ BY FORMER (RMC DUNTROON) STAFF CADET […]
This is a personal factual detailed account of the experiences of junior recruit over a six month period, after having been accepted by the rigorous Australian Army (officer) Selection Board into its elite Royal Military College (RMC) Duntroon in Canberra. He was just of one of 128 recruits of that particular […]
[NOTE: The following document is an exact copy of the ‘Personal Account‘ (of Duntroon Bastardisation experiences in 1987) authored by former Army Officer Staff Cadet Julian Knight to the Defence Abuse Response Taskforce (DART) on 26 November 2013. The original document is a legal annexure document first submitted by Mr Julian […]
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