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29 January 2013Book page
Appendix B – Scope of Research and Methodology
<p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The findings and recommendations in this Report are based on an independent assessment of ADFA and a thorough examination of the significant amount of information gathered.</p> -
29 January 2013Book page
Commissioner’s Message
<p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I am pleased to present the Report of the cultural review into the Treatment of Women at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA). This report concludes Phase One of the Review. Phase Two of the Review will examine the treatment of women across the broader Australian Defence Force (ADF).</p> -
29 January 2013Book page
1. ADFA: Description of Current Culture
<p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The Terms of Reference required the Review to make recommendations on initiatives to drive cultural change at ADFA regarding the treatment of women. To properly identify these initiatives, the Review needed to assess the culture as it currently exists. Part of this process involved examining the notion of military culture generally and, more specifically, the culture for women at ADFA.</p> -
29 January 2013Book page
1. ADFA: Description of Current Culture
<p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The Terms of Reference required the Review to make recommendations on initiatives to drive cultural change at ADFA regarding the treatment of women. To properly identify these initiatives, the Review needed to assess the culture as it currently exists. Part of this process involved examining the notion of military culture generally and, more specifically, the culture for women at ADFA.</p> -
Sex Discrimination6 March 2015Webpage
Reports
<p><img style="float:left;height:272px;margin:10px !important;width:190px;" alt="Converstaions on Deployment cover image" data-delta="1" data-fid="18944" data-media-element="1" src="https://defencereview.humanrights.gov.au/sites/default/files/Conversations-on-Deployment-cover_0.jpg" title typeof="foaf:Image"></p> <p>Reports prepared on specific projects are provided directly to Defence. However, publicly available reports are available for download below.</p> -
22 July 2013Book page
Chapter 5: ADFA’s Role and Purpose (Recommendations 1-5)
<h3><a id="Heading425" name="Heading425"></a> Key Finding of Review</h3> <p>The Review found that:</p> <blockquote><p>There needs to be a strong reaffirmation of ADFA as the centre of excellence for tri-Service education and training for junior officers. ADFA espouses excellence; however it lacks a well-articulated purpose and a clear vision. This inhibits it from realising its potential and, significantly, from integrating equality, diversity and inclusion in a meaningful way.<sup>1</sup></p></blockquote> -
29 January 2013Book page
2. Women at ADFA: Harassment, Abuse, Discrimination and Assault
<p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><b>2.1 Introduction</b></p> <p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">ADFA is a unique institution where cadets live, study, work and socialise. The intensity of this environment can exacerbate the experiences of sexual harassment, abuse, discrimination and assault.</p> -
29 January 2013Book page
Appendix A – Brief Description of ADFA
<p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><b>Stated purpose of ADFA</b></p> <p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">ADFA is one of the ADF’s training establishments.</p> <p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Its stated purpose is to:</p> -
14 December 2012Book page
Tackling violence, harassment and bullying - Annual Report 2011-2012: Australian Human Rights Commission
We all have a right to feel safe and respected. We all have a right to live our lives free from violence. Violence, harassment and bullying can violate these rights. They can also impact on other rights, such as the right to education and the right to health. Violence, harassment and bullying affect well-being and quality of life. -
22 July 2013Book page
Chapter 7: ADFA’s Structure and Staffing (Recommendations 11-15)
<h3><a id="Heading767" name="Heading767"></a> Key findings of Review</h3> <p>The Review found that:</p> -
22 July 2013Book page
Chapter 8: Midshipmen and Cadets are Young People and Future Leaders (Recommendations 16-18)
<h3><a id="Heading1087" name="Heading1087"></a> Key findings of Review</h3> <p>Given their age, most undergraduates enter ADFA without much ‘real world’ experience, with many having never lived away from home before.<sup>1</sup> The differing levels of maturity of undergraduates, combined with the pressures of living, working and studying together, can present substantial risk factors for ADFA.</p> <p>In particular, the Review findings indicated that:</p> -
Sex Discrimination25 March 2014Publication
Review into the Treatment of Women in the Australian Defence Force
The audit has provided an important opportunity to examine the progress of the ADF in implementing the recommendations. Overall, the ADF has made significant progress across a range of areas and is to be commended for its efforts. This Report identifies those areas, and also notes other areas where further cultural reform work can be undertaken. The Report also provides an update of the Australian Defence Force Academy’s further progress in implementing the recommendations from the Review into the Treatment of Women at ADFA. -
Sex Discrimination20 April 2016Speech
National Press Club speech - Kate Jenkins
<h2>&nbsp;</h2> <h2>&nbsp;</h2> <h2><strong>‘Accelerating change: gender equality from the household to the workplace’</strong></h2> <p><strong>Kate Jenkins</strong><br><br> <strong>Sex Discrimination Commissioner</strong><br><br> <strong>Australian Human Rights Commission</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h2><strong>National Press Club </strong></h2> <p><strong>20 April 2016</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><em><strong>CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY</strong></em></p> <hr> <p>I would like to acknowledge the Ngunnawal people, the Traditional Custodians and First People of the land on which we meet.</p> -
22 July 2013Book page
Chapter 6: Equity and Diversity (Recommendations 6-10)
<h3><a id="Heading572" name="Heading572"></a> Key findings of Review</h3> <ul> <li>The principles of equity and diversity should provide overarching, positive values to inform everyday practice within the ADF.</li> <li>At ADFA, the Review found equity and diversity to be conceptually grounded in disciplinary and punitive processes and framed as a response to unacceptable behaviour.</li> </ul> -
LGBTIQ+22 September 2017Speech
Keynote Address - Military Pride Ball 2017
<h3>Military Pride Ball - Keynote Speech&nbsp;</h3> <div class="box"><em><strong>Check against delivery</strong></em></div> <h3>Introduction<a id="top" name="top"></a><br> Acknowledgements</h3> <p>• Thank you, James and Ellen, for your kind introduction.</p> <p>• Traditional owners: the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation and to pay my respects to their elders past and present.</p> <p>• The many members of the LGBTI community who have served in the armed forces – as well as those from inside and outside the LGBTI community who helped make this possible.</p> -
22 July 2013Book page
Chapter 4: Implementation of Review Recommendations
<p>This chapter outlines the structure and processes for implementing the Review’s recommendations. It&nbsp;describes the overarching framework and approach to reform at ADFA. This chapter also identifies risks to implementation of recommendations and the sustainability of cultural change.<sup>1</sup></p> <p>In summary:</p> -
Legal14 December 2012Webpage
Independent Interim Report on CEDAW
Para 29: The Committee encourages the State party to continue its efforts to tackle the persistent problem of violence against women and urges the State party to adopt national legislation and adopt, implement and adequately fund as a matter of urgency the National Action Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and Their Children, including a mechanism for independent monitoring. -
29 January 2013Book page
Appendix J – Examples of Best Practice from International Contexts
<p><b style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Introduction and Methodology</b></p> -
22 July 2013Book page
Chapter 10: Minimising risk and ensuring the safety of the workplace
<h2><a id="Heading1478" name="Heading1478"></a><strong>10.1 Education</strong></h2> <h3><a id="Heading1479" name="Heading1479"></a> Key findings of Review</h3> <ul> <li>ADFA provided undergraduates with limited education about healthy and respectful relationships, issues regarding consent, the meaning and appropriateness of sexist language and behaviour, and issues regarding controlling and threatening behaviour.</li> <li>The 2011 Unacceptable Behaviour Survey indicated that incidents of inappropriate conduct and inappropriate attitudes towards women were present at ADFA.</li></ul> -
29 January 2013Book page
Bibliography
<p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Acting Commonwealth and Defence Force Ombudsman,&nbsp;<i>Australian Defence Force: Management of Complaints about Unacceptable Behaviour,</i>Report No 04 (2007).</p>