Testimony about Duntroon - JulianKnight.com.au

**Army Officer Staff Cadet Julian Knight outside RMC Duntroon Military Hospital on Tuesday 17th March 1987, after copping a Duntroon ‘bishing’ attack by a gang of senior cadets.**

The above photo taken by a mate shows Staff Cadet Julian Knight outside RMC Duntroon Military Hospital on Tuesday 17th March 1987 having a cigarette. It shows his left lower arm in a plaster cast after having been medically treated for “severe ligament damage in the dorsum of the left wrist” from been bashed and kicked on college campus by five senior cadets of RMC’s Kapyong Company as part of a regular Hogwarts-esk ‘bishing‘ assault. [Read pages 21-23].

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 Brandis QC, on 12th November 2012 established The Defence Abuse Response Taskforce (DART).

DART was set up to provide Defence personnel who had complained of physical abuse, sexual abuse, harassment or bullying whilst in the ADF, with a Government sanctioned avenue for resolution through counselling, reparation payment, participation in a restorative engagement process and other more traditional means, such as administrative sanctions or criminal action.

DART considered as many as 2,439 complaints and found 1,751 to be within its scope and plausible. Mr Julian Knight, who as a former Army Officer Staff Cadet of Royal Military College Duntroon in 1987 was one of them.

The following internal hyperlink below opens the comprehensive sworn personal account by Mr Julian Knight to DART of before, during, and after – his officer training experience at Duntroon from January to July 1987. Be mindful that the Hoddle Street Shooting took place just days later on 9th August 1987. He formally submitted it as evidence of abuse to DART on 26th November 2013.

This sworn legal statement is highly detailed factual account by Julian Knight of some 97 pages in length (click on link below):

Duntroon Staff Cadet Julian Knight submission to DART 2013 (protected)

..and these are the relevant attachments included in that submission:

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**RMC Duntroon memento decanter for officer training Kapyong Company graduate staff cadets – engraved with the company’s mascot ‘the fighting rat’.**

This is Soldier Julian Knight’s official website:

This is the official website of Australian Soldier Julian Knight.

Having duly served the Supreme Court of Victoria’s imposed sentence of 27 years for his immediately confessed mass crime, 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.

So, who are we underwriting this website? We are ‘The Knighthood’ – Mr Knight’s support base. This website is cathartic. In no way is any financial benefit derived, requested or ever accepted.

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