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I hope some Australian could throw some light!
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lol ur a funny man.
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What is this "bastardisation" that the report talks about that afflicts the Australian military?
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You not sure what Bastardisation means? It's another way of saying bullying or bashing someone.
Would think it would be present in any country's military to different degrees. I saw plenty of that going on during my service, especially during initial training. It has it's purpose, i guess, of weeding out the the week links in a unit. U won't find anything in the training manuals but it's part of our nature. That's not to say that it is ok tho. No-one should be pushed to the point of suicide. Those examples u qouted were of incidents at Singleton,which is the Infantry Training Base for the army. I coudn't Imagine that place without Bastardisation.
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What were the the circumstances surrounding the deportation of Vivian Alvarez?
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A department stuff up.
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An investigation by former Victorian Police commissioner Neil Comrie has lambasted the department for its management of Ms Alvarez, which resulted in the injured and mentally ill Australian citizen being deported to the Philippines in 2001, where she remains.
"DIMIA's [the immigration department'] overall management of Vivian's case can only be described as catastrophic," Mr Comrie said in the report, released by Commonwealth Ombudsman John McMillan.
Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone apologised to Ms Alvarez and her family but could not give a guarantee a similar incident would not happen again.
The Government would spend $230 million over five years fixing the department's problems, she said.
Senator Vanstone also revealed one of three middle-ranking immigration officials blamed for covering up Ms Alvarez's wrongful deportation had resigned.
She said a public-service investigation would be held into the two remaining employees' roles in the bungle but they could escape any retribution if they too resigned from the department. http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/...562923589.html
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