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The Department of the Navy, the Department of the Army, the Department of the Air Force.

But there was another department which was charged with supplying all of those branches of the Australian military with everything they needed.

So uniforms, aircraft, vehicles, munitions, everything.

And that department was headquartered in Melbourne.

A few years later it moved, as many government departments did, to Canberra.

But at that point it was in Melbourne.

And a man who was basically the fourth highest ranking public servant within that huge department, who was very well qualified, who was an expert in aviation, who had come into the department from a background in civil aviation, was given the task by somebody

his superiors presumably, to investigate Westall in the week of the incident.

And his children remember very clearly a car, the government car, picking him up every morning from his home in Melbourne and instead of taking him into the city where the office was, taking him in the opposite direction out to Westall every morning that week.

And then he came home in the evening and they remember him labouring,

around the kitchen table with the report that he had been charged with compiling, a report into what had happened at Westall, what he had discovered.

And they told me, and they've told me this over many years, that he suffered for what he saw at Westall.

He suffered for his inability to be able to talk about what he saw,

And he suffered because he felt as though what had happened at Westall needed to be shared with the public.

But he wasn't allowed to do that.

In fact, he was threatened.

He had his job threatened.

And he was told that if he talked about what had happened at Westall, he could lose his job.

He could certainly lose his reputation.

And it would put into jeopardy very important contracts that the Parliament was negotiating with