The Defence Abuse Response Taskforce (DART) was an Australian body established to help people who claimed to have suffered physical or sexual abuse, harassment or bullying in the
Australian Defence Force
The Australian Defence Force (ADF) is the Armed forces, military organisation responsible for the defence of Australia and its national interests. It consists of three branches: the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), Australian Army and the Royal Aus ...
before 11 April 2011. The Taskforce worked from 26 November 2012 until 30 June 2016. It considered 2,439 complaints and found 1,751 to be within its scope and plausible. The Taskforce was headed by
Len Roberts-Smith, assisted by
Robert Cornall, Susan Halliday and Rudi Lammers, with
Robyn Kruk acting as Reparation Payments Assessor.
References
Defunct Commonwealth Government agencies of Australia
Sexual abuse in the military
Military history of Australia
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