Australian navy recruits forced to rape each other during initiation rituals called Blackballing and Royal Flush

Australian navy recruits 'forced to rape each other' during initiation rituals called "Blackballing" and " Royal Flush "

Former navy personnel outlined decades of disturbing abuse and cover-ups, including practices such as “blackballing”, which involved their genitals being smeared with shoe polish, or a “royal flush”, which involved flushing people’s heads in a toilet after it had been used. Victims who complained were told to “suck it up … it will make a man of you".

The commission heard from a former navy member who said he was often “snatched” in the middle of the night and dragged to a sports oval, where he was subject to repeated sexual abuse and rape involving other recruits.

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