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DISCIPLINE
Hazing in the ADF:
A Culture of Denial?
59 Stanley Cohen, States of Denial: Knowing About Atrocities and Suffering, Polity, Cambridge,
2001, p. 7.
60 See Claudia Card, ‘Ticking Bombs and Interrogations’, Criminal Law and Philosophy, Vol. 22,
No. 1, 2008, pp. 1–15; Samuel Moyn, ‘Torture and Taboo’, Nation, 25 February 2013, pp.
627–33.
61 Østvik and Rudmin, ‘Bullying and hazing among Norwegian army soldiers’.
62 Cimino, ‘The evolution of hazing’.
63 Ibid., p. 246.
64 Fox Report, cited in Piper Report, p. 71.
65 See, for example, Ross Eastgate, ‘Our Defenders: Defence hazing can build character’,
Townsville Bulletin, 22 June 2012; David Penberthy, ‘It’s the guilty who should apologise -
We are in danger of succumbing to sorry-mania as the aggrieved line up for political posturing’,
Townsville Bulletin, 8 December 2012, p. 41; ‘Elephant in the Room Has Never Left – Defence
Scandal’, The Weekend Australian, 16 June 2012, p. 4; Luke McIlven, ‘Anyone different is ripe
for abuse’, The Advertiser (Adelaide), 11 November 2004, p. 6. For the military community
and the use of internet forums, see Elizabeth L Robbins, ‘Muddy Boots IO: The rise of soldier
blogs’, Australian Army Journal, Vol. 4, No. 3, 2007, pp. 39–58.
66 Kane McKay, ‘Where’s Help When We Need It?’, The Advertiser (Adelaide), 13 July 2013, p. 52.
67 Geoff Strong, ‘Death behind the lines’, The Age, 9 April 2004, ‘Insight’ section, pp. 1, 4.
68 Herspring, ‘Undermining combat readiness in the Russian military’.
69 Gregory Katz, ‘A Russian soldier’s story’, Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 297, No. 5, 2006, p. 89.
70 For the most extreme example, see W.R. Peers et al., The My Lai Massacre and its cover-up:
beyond the reach of law?, Free Press, New York, 1976.
71 John Hoffman, ‘The US Marine Corps’ in James Bradford (ed), A Companion to American
Military History, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, p. 419.
72 Piper Report, p. xxix.
73 Cohen, States of Denial, pp. 6, 10, 51.
74 Board of Inquiry into the Protection of Aboriginal Children from Sexual Abuse (Northern
Territory), Report of the Northern Territory Board of Inquiry into the Protection of Aboriginal
Children from Sexual Abuse, Board of Inquiry, Darwin, 2007.
75 Lawrence Sherman, Scandal and Reform: Controlling police corruption, UC Press, 1978,
pp. 66–67.
76 Royal Commission into the New South Wales Police Service (Wood Royal Commission), Final
Report: Volume 1, Corruption, Royal Commission into the New South Wales Police Service,
1997, and Commission of Inquiry Pursuant to Orders in Council (Fitzgerald Inquiry), Report
of a Commission of Inquiry Pursuant to Orders in Council, Commission of Inquiry Pursuant to
Orders in Council, 1989.
77 Sherman, Scandal and Reform, p. 64.
78 Rodney Tiffen, Scandals: Media, politics and corruption in contemporary Australia, UNSW
Press, 1999, p. 9.
79 Norman Lindsay and W. E. Smith Ltd, Will you fight now or wait for this, Commonwealth of
Australia, 1918. The poster can be viewed online at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an14166011.
80 Piper Report, p. 51. This section of the Report is titled: ‘Defence has not been able to provide
records or other information to indicate that all or even many of the perpetrators of specific
abuses and/or perpetrators of specific mismanagement of allegations of abuse covered by
previous Reports were called to account.’
81 Ibid., p. xxxiii.
82 Janet Chan and David Dixon, ‘The politics of police reform: Ten years after the Royal
Commission into the New South Wales Police Service’, Criminology and Criminal Justice,
Vol. 7, No. 4, 2007, pp. 443–68.
83 Cohen 2001, p. 119.
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