Border force review finds staff subject to 'alarming' levels of sexual harassment and bullying

Exclusive: internal review concludes ABF staff faced with discrimination and culture of nepotism and favouritism

Australian Border Force staff experienced “alarming levels of sexual harassment and bullying”, discrimination, increasing militarisation, and a culture of nepotism and favouritism, an internal review obtained by Guardian Australia reveals.

The exhaustive review of ABF culture, also known as the May report, reveals some staff believed the agency was recruiting trainees who were “cowboys, too aggressive, and too keen to use weapons” after the 2015 amalgamation of customs and immigration.

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