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What Counts as Evidence

“I lived in a small town in Nayarit for eight years. The worst of it happened during the year and a half after my husband left, and I’ve never been able to prove any of it.”

Domestic & Family Violence

Domestic Violence Pattern Recognition (ADF Context)

For years I waited for someone in authority to ask what had happened to me: a commander, a case officer, anyone. Recognising the pattern in an ADF family.

Map of East Timor, Papua New Guinea and Bougainville over a pattern of crossing dotted lines, in olive tones. Text: “10 Your story”, Unacknowledged Casualties.

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If This Is Your Story

For partners, former partners, and adult children of ADF quinoline veterans who recognise their own experience. You did not imagine it. It was not your fault.

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What You Can Do

Precisely how journalists, lawyers, clinicians, policymakers, and members of the public can act on what this series documents.

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The Children

What happened to the children who grew up in ADF quinoline veteran households — what they were exposed to, what the research shows, and what the silence cost them.

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She Was Left With Nothing

For the women the system forgot entirely — the chain of failures that brought them here, what they are living with now, and what they actually need.

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Left Behind

Up to 2,859 ADF personnel were given tafenoquine or mefloquine in Army Malaria Institute trials. Zero support programs exist for their spouses or children.

Map of East Timor, Papua New Guinea and Bougainville over a pattern of crossing dotted lines, in olive tones. Text: “03 The brain”, Unacknowledged Casualties.

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It Was Not His Personality. It Was His Brain.

The behaviour looked like narcissism. It was an acquired brain injury with a documentable onset date — and the difference changes what the harm means.

Map of East Timor, Papua New Guinea and Bougainville over a pattern of crossing dotted lines, in olive tones. Text: “04 Coercive control”, Unacknowledged Casualties.

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Coercive Control in the Home

How mefloquine and tafenoquine created the neurological conditions for coercive control — and why the standard domestic violence frameworks did not reach these families.

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Just the Army Wife

A first-person account of living inside the unrecognised consequences of government-administered neurotoxic drugs — and what it means to finally understand where responsibility sits.

Map of East Timor, Papua New Guinea and Bougainville over a pattern of crossing dotted lines, in olive tones. Text: “The spouse”, Unacknowledged Casualties.

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The Spouse: A Clinical and Social Profile

Partners and spouses of ADF veterans with quinoline-induced neurological injury — a clinical, social, and forensic record.

Map of East Timor, Papua New Guinea and Bougainville over a pattern of crossing dotted lines, in olive tones. Text: “02 The evidence”, Unacknowledged Casualties.

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About This Series

How this series uses evidence, who its primary sources are, what standing they hold, and where the record runs out. The methodology page for Unacknowledged Casualties.

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