1971 report of Judge Rapke into the conduct of the Junior Recruit Training Establishment H.M.A.S. Leeuwin

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Dear Department of Defence,

In 1971 the then Australian Government held an enquiry into the conduct of the Junior Recruit Training Establishment H.M.A.S. Leeuwin headed by the late Judge Rapke.

During the all material times in 1971, I had not only been subjected to the bastardisation that the Honorable Judge was investigating, I had been subjected to institutional bastardisation by being placed on `open arrest’ and Commodore Ramsey’s defaulters disciplinary list for the temerity of reporting a fellow recruit, who turned out to be the son of a Victoria Cross Winner, for inappropriate sexual harassment.

I therefore seek a copy of Judge Rapke’s report enquiry into the conduct of the Junior Recruit Training Establishment H.M.A.S. Leeuwin to establish the extent, if any, of the Royal Australian Navy’s culpability for the formal and informal bastardisation of naval recruits in 1971.

Yours faithfully,

Lloyd Casey
6/11 Haig Street Coorparoo QLD 4151
Mob 0437 186 598
[email address]

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Ray Montey left an annotation ()

I believe there is a copy of this report in the Federal Parliment Library but I have been able to get a copy.
If there is nothing to hide in the report why is it not more widely available and why has it been heavily censored?

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