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Maeve Bannister

UNCOVERED: Defence sexual violence class action reaches court - The Untold Story

ADF Matt Keogh the Australian Defence Force
The Commonwealth wants to exclude alleged overseas incidents from a class action by ADF women. (Dave Hunt/AAP PHOTOS)

More than 1000 Australian Defence Force women have registered for a class action against the Commonwealth alleging systemic sexual abuse, harassment and discrimination. 

But the Commonwealth is seeking to remove any incidents alleged to have occurred while ADF women were deployed overseas from the claim.

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