Almost 700 complaints about unacceptable behaviour — including sexual misconduct, bullying and harassment — have been reported within the Royal Australian Navy Fleet Command in the past two years.
abc.net.au/news/unacceptable-behaviour-royal-australian-navy-fleet-command/102378962Nearly 700 complaints about unacceptable behaviour – including sexual misconduct, bullying and harassment – within the Royal Australian Navy Fleet Command have been reported in the past two years.It heard of hundreds of complaints of unacceptable behaviourMore than a quarter of the reports in the past year were substantiated.
Fleet Command is responsible for the command, operations, training and force generation of all ships, submarines, aircraft squadrons, diving teams, and shore establishments of the Royal Australian Navy. More than two dozen complaints against lieutenants and lieutenant commanders were also substantiated."Unacceptable behaviour – even if it's a complaint that's not upheld – is unacceptable," Shore Force Commander Commodore Heath Jay Robertson told the inquiry.
The inquiry was told there were no deaths by suicide within the command of about 2,000 people during Captain Lawton's two-and-a-half-year tenure, which ended recently.Captain Lawton said there was no formal process of collating data around suicide-related incidents within his command.
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