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27 RIT, ‘Brief for Broderick Review Audit – Recommendation 30 and 31: Injury, Health and Wellbeing at ADFA – RFIs 77-87’,provided to the Audit by Dr N Miller, 17 January 2013; RIT, ‘Broderick Audit Summary Final 280912’, provided to the Audit byDr N Miller, 28 September 2012.28 RIT, ‘Brief for Broderick Review Audit – Recommendation 30 and 31: Injury, Health and Wellbeing at ADFA – RFIs 77-87’,provided to the Audit by Dr N Miller, 17 January 2013.29 RIT, ‘Broderick Audit Summary Final 280912’, provided to the Audit by Dr N Miller, 28 September 2012.30 RIT, ‘Broderick Audit Summary Final 280912’, provided to the Audit by Dr N Miller, 28 September 2012.31 RIT, ‘Broderick Audit Summary Final 280912’, provided to the Audit by Dr N Miller, 28 September 2012.32 RIT, ‘Brief for Broderick Review Audit – Recommendation 30 and 31: Injury, Health and Wellbeing at ADFA – RFIs 77-87’,provided to the Audit by Dr N Miller, 17 January 2013; RIT, ‘Broderick Ph1 Review Implementation Progress Spreadsheet’,provided to the Audit by Dr N Miller, 28 September 2012.33 The Audit has not seen the actual content of this approach and therefore supports the concept with the caveat that suchprograms must meet the intent of the Recommendation. The Audit has been provided with slides from the injury managementpresentation during YOFT however the approach referred to is not present in the slides.34 RIT, ‘Broderick Audit Summary Final 280912’, provided to the Audit by Dr N Miller, 28 September 2012.35 Interview 32, Army staff male, 15 October 2012.36 Focus group U1, Mixed Service 2nd year undergraduate male and female, 17 October 2012.37 Focus group U1, Mixed Service 2nd year undergraduate male and female, 17 October 2012.38 ADFA should also be concerned about the dangers of such stigma not just to the culture of equal treatment of women, but tothe risk that injuries will not be properly managed. Where injured undergraduates are at risk of being considered ‘malingerers’by fellow undergraduates there is a risk that injured undergraduates ‘don’t want to be one of those’ and therefore will avoidmedical restrictions even when required. Focus group S5, Mixed Service staff female, 16 October 2012.39 ADFA, ‘Healthy Lifestyles, gender briefing’ (female), YOFT, 8 February 2013; ADFA, ‘YMHL13 – Female Gender Brief’, providedto the Audit by Dr N Miller, 21 March 2013.40 ADFA, ‘Healthy Lifestyles, gender briefing’ (male), YOFT, 8 February 2013; ADFA, ‘YMHL13 – Male Gender Brief’, provided tothe Audit by Dr N Miller, 21 March 2013.41 Capt Dolce, psychologist, ‘Suicide Awareness’, Mandatory Training for staff, presentation 21 January 2013.42 Anne Goyne, Senior psychologist, ‘Suicide Awareness’, YOFT, presentation, 27 January 2012.43 Capt Dolce, psychologist, ‘Suicide Awareness’, Mandatory Training for staff, presentation 21 January 2013.44 Ann Goyne, email to Dr N Miller, 14 February 2012, provided to the Audit, 14 February 2013.45 Department of Defence, Mental Health in the Australian Defence Force: 2010 ADF Mental Health Prevalence and WellbeingStudy, p xi. At http://www.defence.gov.au/health/DMH/i-MHRP.htm#MHRP (viewed 6 March 2012).46 National Mental Health Commission, A Contributing Life: the 2012 National Report Card on Mental Health and SuicidePrevention, 2012, p 128. At http://www.mentalhealthcommission.gov.au/media/39273/NMHC_ReportCard_Lo-res.pdf (viewed6 March 2013).47 Capt Dolce, psychologist, ‘Suicide Awareness’, Mandatory Training for staff, presentation 21 January 2013.48 P McGorry, A Parker and R Purcell, ‘Youth Mental Health Services’, InPsych (August 2006). At http://www.psychology.org.au/publications/inpsych/youth_mental_health/ (viewed 8 March 2013).49 RIT, ‘Broderick Audit Summary Final 280912’, provided to the Audit by Dr N Miller, 28 September 2012; ADFA, ‘Emergencyand Support Contact Numbers’, provided to the Audit by Dr N Miller, 28 September 2012; ADFA, ‘Emergency Contact ReadyReckoner Card’, provided to the Audit by Dr N Miller, 28 September 2012; RIT, ‘Broderick Ph1 Review Implementation ProgressSpreadsheet’, provided to the Audit by Dr N Miller, 28 September 2012.50 RIT, ‘Broderick Ph1 Review Implementation Progress Spreadsheet’, provided to the Audit by Dr N Miller, 28 September 2012.51 RIT, ‘Broderick Ph1 Review Implementation Progress Spreadsheet’, provided to the Audit by Dr N Miller, 28 September 2012;RIT, ‘Broderick Audit Summary Final 280912’, provided to the Audit by Dr N Miller, 28 September 2012.52 LTCOL B Kilpatrick, email to Dr N Miller, 30 January 2013, and email from Dr N Miller to Audit, 30 January 2013.53 LCDR N Cook, email to Dr N Miller and S Longbottom, 18 December 2012, provided to the Audit by S Longbottom,20 December 2012.54 LCDR N Cook, email to Dr N Miller and S Longbottom, 18 December 2012, provided to the Audit by S Longbottom,20 December 2012; Dr N Miller, email to the Audit, 12 December 2012.55 RIT, ‘Communication Plan: Communicating Cultural Change’, Annex L, provided to the Audit by Dr N Miller, 12 November 2012.56 The exception to this is the relationship with Sexual Health and Family Planning ACT in which the Audit is advised thatADFA is working with this organisation to develop a Sexual Ethics Program. This provides an important part of the responseto undergraduate needs. This program is further discussed in respect of Recommendation 22. RIT, ‘Broderick Ph1 ReviewImplementation Progress Spreadsheet’, provided to the Audit by Dr N Miller, 28 September 2012.57 Interview 1, CDRE BJ Kafer, 12 September 2012.58 There is concern that because the Recommendation is marked as ‘Implemented’ the implementation might not be carriedthrough. RIT, ‘Broderick Audit Summary Final 280912’, provided to the Audit by Dr N Miller, 28 September 2012.Audit Report: Review into the Treatment of Women at the Australian Defence Force Academy • 2013 • 127